Jerky Boys founder reveals nutty truth about characters, plans return to big screen 30 years after film debut

He was born to be jerky.The founder of prank-call comedy legends The Jerky Boys credited his own mom and dad for inspiring his insane characters – and now he’s ready to take his career full circle.Johnny Brennan is planning to head back to the big screen 30 years after the release of “The Jerky Boys: The Movie,” this time playing his father Tony in a biopic tentatively titled “Don’t Hang Up” about his uncanny rise from New York wiseass to a wisecracking pop culture phenomenon in the 1990s.“If you spoke to my father, it was just a normal guy just speaking like I’m speaking to you now,” he told The Post in a recent interview, the day after he received the script.“But when my dad got pissed off that’s when Frank Rizzo came out,” he said, then flipped the switch into the familiar voice of his foul-mouthed, short-tempered alter ego.“And things [came out] like, ‘Hey get over here, you f–king rubberneck f–k.’ But he would only speak that way when he was pissed off or when it was time for one of us to get a f–king asswhooping.”Chronically nervous Sol Rosenberg was just a riff on his mother, Gloria, while other characters were based on uncles or others he came across growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, he said.

His characters had New York accents and used phrases he heard growing up like “sizzlechest” while sprinkling in new quotes of his own like “skid plate.”His father and mother — who died in 2000 and 2017, respectively — didn’t mind the notoriety, Brennan said, even when a Maxim magazine reporter laughed in his mother’s face when she spoke and Rosenberg’s voice came out.Brennan, who’s now 63, told his mother it was all “pretty extraordinary.”“Just by me copying your voice and knowing that you were f–king hysterical, you know we were able to touch the world with these characters I’ve created, based on the family,” he said.Long before Brennan went to the top of the Billboard album charts with his forme...