Joey Skaggs' Works in Lifestyle | Culture
Trump Greeting Cards
Trump Greeting Cards Print your Free Trump Greeting Cards Created by Artist Joey Skaggs Click on the Greeting Card(s) you wish to print. A PDF of the card will open. Download the PDF(s) and print on nice card stock. Each one is 5×7.
Social Media Compliance Certificate
Traveling into or out of the United States (and want to be able to travel without the fear of deportation)? Print your Free Social Media Compliance Certificate and show the authorities that your online activity from the past five years has been pre-screened and approved.
Coupe de Ville
Joey Skaggs' multi-media theatrical extravaganza, “Coupe de Ville”, was optioned for Broadway in 1972. When fate intervened and it didn't materialize, Skaggs became further convinced to pursue his own projects and maintain control over his work. In 1970, Joey Skaggs conceived a multi-media theatrical musical called “Coupe de Ville.” The entire theater was designed to resemble the inside of a 1950s-era Cadillac Coupe de Ville automobile. The stage was a giant dashboard complete with a steering wheel, instrument panel, radio, and ashtray. The windshield served as a movie screen showing what was happening outside the car, while the rear-view [...]
Art of the Prank Blog
Joey Skaggs launched "The Art of the Prank" blog on April 1, 2007. Here visitors find insights, news and discussions on everything to do with pranks, hoaxes, culture jamming and reality hacking - past, present and future - mainstream and counter culture around the world.
Scandal in Slovenia
On February 22, 2001, friend and co-conspirator Miso Alkalaj sent Joey Skaggs the first of many emails about a news story unfolding in Slovenia. A young law student had announced that he, representing all of Europe, had won first prize in a world competition in computer programming in Rio. Skeptics in the media became suspicious because they could not substantiate the existence of the competition, nor could they locate or talk to the student who had received government funding to enter this contest. Because Alkalaj declined to comment, they summarily decided that the whole thing was a hoax and he and Skaggs were behind it. The story gets more bizarre from there.
To Tell The Truth Hoax
When "To Tell The Truth", one of the longest running TV game shows in U.S. history, invited Joey Skaggs to Los Angeles to be a guest, Skaggs could not resist sending his friend Norman Savage in his place. The producers had seen Skaggs' photo in a recent New York Times article (their inspiration for inviting him), but when Norman arrived at the studio, they never suspected he was not who he said he was.
Bad Guys Talent Agency
To help friend Verne Williams get an acting job, Skaggs created a fake talent management agency for called Bad Guys Inc.. When, Verne landed a role in Berry Gordy’s "The Last Dragon" feature film, and People Magazine covered the story, the agency was launched.
UT TV Hoax
In 1993, Joey Skaggs was invited to give a presentation called "The Media: Politics, Power and Persuasion" at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. When the local NBC TV News called to interview Skaggs before the talk, Skaggs sent Assistant Professor Beauvais Lyons, creator of a collection of mock-archaeology and curator of the Hokes Archives, in his place.
Faith Daniels TV Hoax
Joey Skaggs couldn't pass up the opportunity to hoax the Faith Daniels Show when they sought couples who use sex tapes to appear in a segment called "Sex Tapes -- Do They Work?".
Baba Wa Simba
In February of 1995, Baba Wa Simba--Swahili for the Lion King--arrived in London ready to meet with his London Pride and later with the press. Born the son of American missionary parents in Kenya, Baba Wa Simba had grown up with the Masai at a lion sanctuary. His parents had been killed and eaten by lions, and, drawn to disenfranchised and troubled youth, he had developed his own philosophic approach to therapy, to heal the wounded animal within. Or, so he said. Baba Wa Simba was actually Joey Skaggs and the hoax was on the international media.
Nose Knows
Joseph Adore (aka Joey Skaggs) was born with an extremely acute olfactory sense and was personally responsible for more drug busts than any DEA agent in history.
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.
Trump’s Military Parade, 2018
New York City's 33rd Annual April Fools' Day Parade kicked off with a satirical take on Trump's Military Parade. President Trump astride a tricycle mounted sling-shot launcher with a 10 foot tall rocket was joined by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean "Rocket Man" Kim Jong Un who had his own smaller rocket.