The New York April Fools’ Committee Is Proud to Announce: NEW YORK CITY’S 36th ANNUAL APRIL FOOLS’ DAY PARADE “DENY, DENY, LIE, LIE!” The only New York City parade dedicated to conspiracy theorists! New York’s irreverent April Fools’ Day Parade, poking fun at the past
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Prankster Behind NYC April Fools’ Day Parade Says This Year’s Event Will Mock Trump, by Jillian Kay Melchior, March 28, 2017 For more than three decades, prankster Joey Skaggs has rejoiced in ensnaring the national media into covering fake news of his own invention. But this April
Read more →April Fools’ Day parade no joke this year, by Richard Johnson Media prankster Joey Skaggs has created a fake April Fools’ Day Parade for 31 years. This year, it’s real. Skaggs, immortalized in the documentary “The Art of the Prank,” has lured TV camera crews and reporters
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ABOVE & BEYOND: April Fools’ Day Parade, March 26, 2017 “Our satire knows no bounds,” the organizers of this annual parade of jesters promise, yet is there any target more rewarding for the modern satirist than the Commander-in-Chief? New York’s thirty-second April Fools’ Day Parade calls for
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New York Today, by Alexandra S. Levine, April 1, 2016 Good morning on this dank Friday. You’ve heard of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, right? Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? Of course. But the April Fools’ Day Parade? The procession is expected to file from 59th Street
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by Nicole Levy, DNAInfo, New York, March 31, 2016 April Fools’ Day is this Friday, and we sincerely hope you don’t get taken for one. Concern for your own dignity doesn’t, however, exclude you from enjoying the pranks played on others. We’ve culled three of our favorite gags from the annals
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6hSffHV8UIRead more → For more than three decades, New York City’s Annual April Fools’ Day Parade has offered the public an opportunity to express, in a comical way, its outrage against the foolishness of mankind. Thousands of participants in look-alike costumes with satirical floats creatively mock the thoughtless, corrupt and selfish acts of the past year. The parade marches down 5th Avenue from 59th Street to Washington Square Park where revelers rejoice and party. The event ends with the annual crowning of the King of Fools.
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Interview with Joey Skaggs about Pranks and Hoaxes (9:41) Wisconsin Public Radio, distributed by Public Radio International March 30, 2014
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