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Doesn’t happen now does it? Probably banned by t(e stone faced humourless tossers who seem to be here there and everywhere (not least here)
Best one I recall
Capital radio in London read the time out on the breakfast show….. And added an hour
All round London thousands sat bolt upright in bed going “what the ****!”
Before tearing off to work unwashed and half dressed
MAGIC
Here is a list:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_April_Fools%27_Day_jokes
Two of the best are:
In 1969, a Dutch TV station announced that a new fleet of powerful detector vans had been launched to root out anyone who had not paid their licence. However, the signal could be blocked if you wrapped your television in tin foil. Later that day, supermarkets sold out of tin foil and there was a surge in TV licence payments.
In 1976, Patrick Moore appeared on Radio 2. He advised listeners that an alignment of Mars and Jupiter would create an unusually strong upward gravitational pull at 9.47am. He recommended jumping up in the air at that time to experience a floating sensation. Several listeners called the BBC afterwards claiming they had done it and it worked.
Hardly one of the best but those ‘humourless lefty tossers’ at the Graun have entered into the spirit this morning:
The best one I know was ‘Mummy, there’s a dead rat in the kitchen’ devised by a short-trousered Drone sometime in the early ’60s
Yea the guardian and humour is a strange mix. Remember those steve bell cartoons? As funny as cancer. And that attempt there is a bit flat too
Nice ones cork. Must admit I loved the first
You can just imagine the editorial meeting at “The Guardian”.
Quick, we need an April Fool’s joke. I know, how about one involving Tories, Royals and Russians? That should keep the dwindling group of readers happy.
I remember it well….
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"That Capital radio one is superb.
And there are people, in this country at least, who still believe that the TV licensing folk can tell you’re watching.
I never heard it so I don’t know how convincing it was but Rob Brydon did Ken Bruce’s entire radio show as Ken Bruce one year. He made it to the end so must have done a fairly good job.
Think we need a TRF version of Godwin’s law. Every thread descends into political bollocks at some point. Give it a rest.
It is isn’t it richard
I still burst out laughing at it.
“And the time is nine o clock!”
Sadly wouldn’t work these days with everyone having a phone. The timing works as it came just after the clocks actually did change and people probably hadn’t bothered to go around the house changing them.
That wiki article says they did their usual weekday show on the Saturday the following year, must have been a few shocked people waking up hungover to that. Still think the hour one is better, more subtle.
Not the best but I do remember as a kid seeing either the Match or Shoot magazine with Ian Rush wearing an Everton kit…
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I thought Firestarter
by the Prodigy
might have crystallised
all the energy of all
the april fools.
They brought it out
on May 11……I thought The Grauniad had a sense of humour back in those days.
I also think that, far from being “lefty,” it was simply non-Conservative.
Either we’ve moved so far to the right as a nation that simply being a non-Tory makes you a lefty/commie/socialist/Marxist nowadays or the paper must have changed.
Haven’t read it in literally 30 years so I cannot really comment.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Ian, I recall you saying you worked on Grandstand. Were you there when the April Fools Day ‘fight’ happened behind Des Lynam while he was praising Grandstand’s highly professional team? Apologies if I’m artificially aging you, I don’t know when you were there.
I did a few Saturday shifts there circa 1990, highlights being working with Des Lynam (lovely bloke and so laidback he didn’t even show up until five minutes before we were on air and would be still ambling to his presenters chair and putting his tie on as the opening music played!) Len Martin, the legendary voice of the football results and racing shows plus results, and Tim Gudgin who often deputised for Len who was hilariously lazy and frequently took time off in what was only a one or two-day a week job!
I was there one Grand National day overseeing the “where your money went” post race graphic and on that occasion liaised with Julian Wilson by phone out at Becher’s Brook and found him very professional and polite.
I remember the mock fight – circa my time but I wasn’t there that day! Honest!
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