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Speaking Truth to Power in DC
Street theater is flourishing in the era of Trump. DC’s many prankster activists turn anger into street theater by Ashraf Khalil AP February 18, 2019 Mike Green and Adam Eidinger with Radical...
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LinkNYC Mister Softee Prankster Comes Clean
Payphone performance artist/activist drops a dime on himself… My Summer of Softee Prank by Mark Thomas. In this year of 2019, I use payphones regularly. As such, I feel fortunate to live in New York...
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Microsoft Preemptively Forfeits 4/1 Prank War
Large tech companies aren’t popular right now, and their branded April Fools’ Day stunts haven’t been well received in awhile. So Microsoft has banned all 4/1 hijinks, shenanigans, and monkeyshines,...
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In Review: April Fools’ Day 2019 Branding, Marketing, and Media Stunts
Before April Fools’ Day 2019 even began, the tech giant Microsoft announced that it would not be indulging in any branded foolishness this year. And that sort of set the tone for the day. From the rise...
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Canadaland Podcast Interview with Joey Skaggs
From Jesse Brown, host of Canadaland Podcast: The greatest media prankster alive talks to Jesse for our April Fools episode. Related posts: Meet the Man Who Invented the Roach Hormone Miracle Cure! The...
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Trump Swears There Was No Parade!
See more photos here. Watch the video: Related posts: “Trump’s Kool-Aid Tasting” Goes to the White House Meet the Man Who Invented the Roach Hormone Miracle Cure! The 2017 April Fools’ Day Parade...
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r/Place: Recollections of a Pop-up Online Subculture
r/Place, an incredible 2017 reddit experiment with a simple premise and strict parameters, stands out for the spirit of challenge and community it ignited. It brought the best of collaborative street...
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Lawless John Law Revealed
John Law, co-editor of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, is a pioneering adventurer who defies gravity and the status quo. From the Suicide Club to Burning Man to the Billboard Liberation...
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Political Prank Topples the Austrian Government. Joey Skaggs Swears He Didn’t...
Joey Skaggs visited Vienna, Austria, in June. Coincidentally, a surreptitiously filmed video had just been released showing the far-right Freedom Party’s leader and then vice chancellor of the Austrian...
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Paul Krassner, RIP
Sadly, my friend Paul Krassner, satirist, activist, comedian, author, and publisher of The Realist, has passed away. Since the 1960s, he was always there for me, as I was for him. Paul was with me on...
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Trump’s Fake Presidential Zeal Augmented by Befittingly Fake Presidential Seal
The writing’s on the wall. Fake as fake can be. President Trump unknowingly stands in front of a fake presidential seal. Hilarity ensues. Says Charles Leazott, the person who designed the seal as a...
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Right-Wing Website Dosed With Own Medicine
The op-ed site Quillette has risen to prominence in the Trump-era conservative firmament by condemning progressive orthodoxies around race and gender, providing a platform for accused sexual predators,...
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Be Aware: The Age of DeepFakes is Upon Us
This must-see “DeepFake” video transforms Bill Hader, when he was on Late Night with David Letterman, into Tom Cruise before your very eyes. Watch the video: Bill Hader channels Tom Cruise [DeepFake],...
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Confessions of a Rock and Roll Poser
Last autumn, Jered “Threatin” Eames staged the most alienating, least explicable rock tour stunt since the Sex Pistols hit the deep south. He recently broke his silence. “The Great Heavy Metal Hoax” by...
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Joey Skaggs Remembers His 1994 National Enquirer Hoax
Note to Jeff Bezos: Take a page from me and screw the National Enquirer! In 1994, after The New York Times Magazine published John Tierney’s article, Falling For It, about my Dog Meat Soup hoax, the...
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Deliveroo Switcheroo
Deliveroo food delivery app accepts bogus restaurant run out of prankster’s apartment… Buyer beware! Italian Stallion’ scams food delivery app with microwaved meatballs by Hannah Frishberg New York...
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Call Me Ishmael: Another Herculean Trans-Pacific Crossing
Adding to the annals of nautical history is the second crossing of the Pacific Ocean on a paddleboard. The first was in 1983, when J.J. Skaggs (aka Joey Skaggs) crossed in the opposite direction...
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Meth Lab Prank
Posting fake photos on a fake TV news website about your fake arrest because of your fake meth lab in the basement. Hmmm… What could go wrong? h/t Ed My Breaking Bad Prank Gone Wrong Almost Cost Me...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall–Who is the Fakist of Them All?
Is that social media influencer you’re following real? These Influencers Aren’t Flesh and Blood, Yet Millions Follow Them by Tiffany Hsu The New York Times June 17, 2019 Balmain commissioned the former...
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AI in the Courtroom: Joey Skaggs’ Solomon Project Revisited
In 1995, Joey Skaggs launched his Solomon Project hoax. Solomon (so he said) was a distributed program running on a set of super computers that would deliberate on the facts and evidence of a case and...
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