The Story of the ‘Portofess,’ the Prank Confessional Booth at the 1992 Democratic Convention, by Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura, July 14, 2017 Artist Joey Skaggs fooled everyone and pedaled off At 1992’s Democratic National Convention, a Dominican priest showed up on a tricycle. Attached to the back was
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HOAXES, HARRISON AND ‘HARLOTS’, by Hannah Brown, July 6, 2017 In this era where the new way to tell someone “I disagree with you” is to accuse them of reporting “fake news,” it’s a good time to look at the life of one of the most famous
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ART OF THE PRANK screens at: The Design Film Festival in Kuldiga, Latvia June 3, 2017 at 23:00 (11:00 pm) Goldingen Knight Cinema Pils str. 5 Kuldiga, Latvia Stay tuned for an announcement about another screening this Fall at Cinema Kino Bize in Riga, Latvia
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50 Years Ago: The Summer of Love Brings Pot, Protests and Psychedelic Rock to the East Village, by Frank Mastropolo, Bedford + Bowery, May 16, 2017 “As the hour grew late and working people around Tompkins Square Park began turning out the lights on Memorial Day 1967, police
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Here’s a new Joey Skaggs article published in HuffPost: In the future, will farting get you 5 to 10?, by Joey Skaggs, HuffPost, May 4, 2017 Jurors on the case against Desiree Fairooz—a protestor who laughed out loud during a Senate hearing on Jeff Sessions’ Attorney General
Read more →April Fools’ Day is Joey Skaggs’ favorite holiday. Every year since 1986, to commemorate and celebrate the folly of mankind, he has organized New York City’s Annual April Fools’ Day Parade. Over the years, the parade has grown in stature and has now joined the ranks of beloved New York parades. In 2017, unlike other years when the parades have attracted major media coverage but have basically been a figment of Joey’s imagination, there actually was a parade. It was a Trumpathon!
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New York City’s 32nd Annual April Fools’ Day Parade Yahoo News Photo Staff, April 1, 2017 The theme for this years parade is MAKE RUSSIA GREAT AGAIN! The Grand Marshall is a Donald Trump look-alike. The full parade was actually an April Fools’ prank. During the event,
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April Fool’s marchers in New York elect Trump as their ‘king’ Daily Mail, April 1, 2017 Wearing Donald Trump masks and marching behind a life-sized doll of the president sitting on a toilet, dozens of people took part Saturday in a wry April Fool’s Day march in
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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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