Posts Tagged April Fools Day

April Fools’ Day Parade in Heat Street

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

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April Fools’ Day Parade covered in The New Yorker

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: A Fools’ Parade

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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April Fools’ Day Parade

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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