Video of Herschel Walker Trolled in Fake Crime Call Viewed Over 700K Times

A video of a man said to be Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker being trolled by a Comedy Central show over a prank phone call has been viewed more than 736,000 times.

In the Wednesday night clip from Tooning Out the News, an animated satirical news program that interviews real-life guests, fake news anchor James Smartwood, who is voiced by show creator R.J. Fried, apparently calls Walker to report a crime.

The prank call riffs on Walker's latest controversy. During last week's Senate debate in Georgia, the GOP nominee flashed an honorary sheriff's badge after Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock criticized him for falsely claiming in the past that he had worked in law enforcement.

"One thing I have not done—I have never pretended to be a police officer, and I've never threatened a shootout with the police," Warnock said last Friday, to which Walker brandished his badge, which he pushed as "real" after being reprimanded by the moderator for using a prop.

On Wednesday, Smartwood told his panel that he decided to report his laptop being stolen by calling the "police" during the show. When a voice that is allegedly Walker's answered the call, the anchor said, "Mr. Walker, hey, this is James Smartwood from Big News. Do you have a second to chat?"

The person identified as Walker asked what outlet he's from before Smartwood quickly answered, "Big news," and launches into his report.

"Basically, what I wanted to do is I wanted to report a crime," he said to Walker. "I left my window down in my car last night, someone stole my laptop out of the passenger seat, and so I'm just trying to figure out if there's any way in your—as someone who's a law enforcement person—if there's any way you can take a look at it."

In response, Walker told Smartwood, "We'll report your thing and all that" before asking for a callback number.

"The main thing, though, is that I wanna get to this laptop. Is there any chance you can hop in the squad car, you know, flick on the sirens, come down here or, maybe like go undercover or something?" Smartwood asked, to which Walker replied, "Can you do anything about it?"

On Thursday, Fried told the Daily Beast: "It's really Herschel Walker."

"I'll ask James Smartwood, but I'm pretty sure Smartwood just dialed 9-1-1 and that's who picked up," he said of his character.

A spokesperson for Fried and a spokesperson from Comedy Central told Newsweek that the voice on the call was Walker. Newsweek has been unable to confirm independently that it was Walker.

This week, Walker leaned into the talks about his police badge, ordering 1,000 fake badges to distribute as a fundraising prop at his next event.

"It just gives us a chance to talk about Herschel's support of law enforcement and law enforcement's support for him. It's a great issue for us," Walker's campaign strategist, Gail Gitcho, told NBC News on Monday.

Walker's campaign did not respond to Newsweek's multiple requests for comment.