List of April Fools' Day jokes

By tradition, in some countries, April 1 or April Fools' Day is marked by pranks and practical jokes. Notable practical jokes have appeared on radio and TV stations, newspapers, web sites, and have been performed by large corporations.

Television stations

Radio stations

External audio
New England Suffers Maple Woes, 7:49, April 1, 2005, NPR[16]

Newspapers and magazines

Internet

Wikipedia's Main Page on April 1, 2007. The featured article write-up deliberately confuses US President George Washington with an inventor of the same name.

Other

See also

References

  1. Still a good joke – 47 years on (BBC News, April 1, 2004)
  2. BBC TV News interview with Michael Peacock 1/4/14...
  3. Saeed Ahmed CNN. "A nod and a link: April Fools' Day pranks abound in the news". CNN. Retrieved January 25, 2010.
  4. "Instant Color TV, 1962". museumofhoaxes.com. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  5. "April Fools' Day, 1965". Museum of Hoaxes. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
  6. BBC (April 1, 2007). "BBC Smell-o-vision". Archived from the original on January 6, 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
  7. Loohauls, Jackie (March 30, 1984). "These practical jokers didn't fool around". The Milwaukee Journal. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
  8. "Volcano joke ends in firing". Bowling Green Daily News. 3 April 1980. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  9. Piot, Debra K. (4 April 1980). "TV station fires producer for airing April-fool prank". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  10. Midgley, Neil (April 1, 2008). "Flying penguins found by BBC programme". London: Telegraph. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  11. Kleinman, Alexis (1 April 2013). "Netflix April Fool's Day Prank: Implausibly Specific Categories". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  12. Gupta, Prachi (1 April 2013). "Netflix’s April Fools’ Day categories". Salon. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  13. Kolodny, Carina (1 April 2014). "We Would Actually Watch These Delicious Netflix Prank Shows". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  14. Molina, Brett (1 April 2014). "Netflix may have won April Fool's Day". Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  15. http://www.allesopeenrij.nl/article.php?aid=388
  16. "Happy Birthday To Us: Listeners Inspire A Deep Dive Into Our Archives". NPR. February 27, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  17. Fooling around, book extract in The Guardian dated March 30, 2007, online at books.guardian.com (Retrieved March 29, 2009)
  18. "Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity -- April Fool's Day, 1976". Museum of Hoaxes. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  19. "Opie and Anthony: WAAF April Fools Day Prank Part 1". Youtube.com. 2011-10-14. Retrieved 2013-07-05.
  20. "Millennium TimeLine – 1998 April". Retrieved March 29, 2007.
  21. "Latest Reports". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  22. Weekend Edition Saturday (April 1, 2006). "www.npr.org IBOD story". Npr.org. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  23. Gagliano, Rico (April 1, 2008). "IRS making sure your rebate gets spent | Marketplace From American Public Media". Marketplace.publicradio.org. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  24. Weekend Edition Sunday (April 8, 2007). "npr.org". NPR.org. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  25. http://www.cbc.ca/player/AudioMobile/As+It+Happens/ID/2369004690/ As It Happens - 2008: Three-Dollar Coin
  26. Mark Washburn, "Fewer Tuning in for Most Local News", The Charlotte Observer, April 4, 2009.
  27. "No U2 on the horizon as fans rattled by hoax". Irish Independent. April 2, 2009. Retrieved April 2, 2009.
  28. "30 Years of Triple J - April Fools 2000". Retrieved April 1, 2016.
  29. Braunlich, Tom (May 28, 2010). "Martin Gardner, Mathematician and Lifelong Chess Fan, Dies at 95". The United States Chess Federation. Archived from the original on January 23, 2015. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
  30. "Top Ten April Fools' Day Jokes". Metro. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
  31. Plimpton, George (April 1, 1985). "The Curious Case Of Sidd Finch". Sports Illustrated 62 (13): 58. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
  32. "Origin and History of April Fools' day".
  33. "Entry at Museum of Hoaxes". Retrieved April 2, 2008.
  34. Raymond, E. S.: "The Jargon File", Kremvax entry, 2006
  35. Glenn Arthur Pierce, "I Need a Spring Break from April Fool’s Day Mascots" (2016), https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/7301999-5-things-you-didn-t-know-about-team-nicknames-and-mascots.
  36. " April fool fairy sold on internet" from BBC News. Retrieved July 31, 2007.
  37. http://blog.netelixir.com/april-fools-day-prank-roundup/
  38. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3049932/it-industry/april-fools-day-online-prank-round-up-2016.html#slide9
  39. https://twitter.com/txcomptroller/status/715907147758874625
  40. "The origin of the WOM – the "Write Only Memory"". Retrieved March 29, 2007.
  41. "April Fools' Day, 1993". Museum of Hoaxes. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
  42. "King's College Choir announces major change". Retrieved April 1, 2014.

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