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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This Week’s Trump Protests & Organizing Events In NYC by David Colon, March 27, 2017 NYC’s 32nd Annual April Fools’ Day Parade—It’s a Trumpathon Donald Trump has been named “King of Fools” before New York City’s April Fool’s Day Parade has even started, and in order to
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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 City’s irreverent April Fools’ Day Parade returns, poking fun once again at the past year’s displays of hype, hypocrisy, deceit, bigotry, and downright foolishness. Nothing is sacred. Our satire knows no bounds. The parade this year, kicks off on Saturday, April 1, 2017, at noon,
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Art of the Prank, documentary film about artist Joey Skaggs by Andrea Marini, awarded top prize!
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Jay Lustig reviews Andrea Marini’s Art of the Prank movie for NJArts.net: Decades ahead of his time, Joey Skaggs started thinking about things like fake news and alternative facts — and doing something about it. His efforts are chronicled in the entertaining and enlightening documentary, “Art of
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Nello Barile writes: “Joey Skaggs is proof that the post-truth has always existed”, Motherboard, January 26, 2017 …Skaggs, come si è visto, è il supremo trickster del Media Hoaxing. Un folle, un folletto o un joker post-situazionista che con la sua ironia ha creato assurdi pseudo-eventi per
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Charles Runnells, of The News-Press, writes about Andrea Marini’s film, ART OF THE PRANK, screening at the Bonita Springs International Film Festival in Bonita Springs, Florida, on Sunday, January 29. People talk about “fake news” like it’s something new. It’s not. Media prankster Joey Skaggs has been doing it
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