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andy-hughes | 09:49 Thu 01st Apr 2021 | Film, Media & TV
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Really poor this year - the idea that the Queen had a Zoom interview with Oprah Winfrey - no-one can have put much thought into that.
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By the usual suspects ;-)
Andy Hughes has quit?

There goes half of the ad revenue that's generated for the Ed.....
I've obviously missed a lot, but I would be very, very sorry if andy-hughes quit. He is always honest. Sorry, nothing to do with the post.

Personally, we got up a bit late and so missed a chunk of R.4 this morning. I assumed that I had missed whatever April 1st spoof they had come up with. I said as much to OH, who replied that he thought that all of the programme we had heard was a spoof! I think, on reflection, that he was right.


The best April Fool I saw was the one from Shepherd Neame Brewery - Spitfire Ale in cans that when you pulled the ring pull you heard a Spitfire engine.
I cdnt tell the Times april fool if there was one

First I thought it was the Queen asking- are you chasing Russians to day

then I thought it was the two Italians who hired two people to islamically kidnap them and found themselves sold onto Syrian real islamists. Released three years later - after a real ransom I think

then I thought it was Di and a blue plaque

and then I thought it was the cressida dick look alike who was "in charge" of anti terrorism who popped up and said " I wasnt that bad
really you know"

and then I didnt know

and then....
Goodnight pp x
Like PP I thought the joke was the one about the Queen, the Aussies and the Russians which I think was ‘written’ by a reporter in the Mail with a name that was an anagram of April fool. But it was repeated in the Times and the Telegraph under real journalists’ names. Were they fooled too? So, I’m not sure what’s going on.
Jo - I agree
The best AF for me was Rob Brydon pretending to be Ken Bruce for his whole morning show including Pop Master. He was brilliant and fooled everyone.
The only Mai I know of is Mai Zetterling - I adored her in the late Fifties and the early Sixties.

Sadly she died over 20 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_Zetterling
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The Mail has owned up this morning.

As usual, it is unreservedly pleased with itself, it's sub-editors indulging in their usual OTT hype, calling it 'jaw dropping'!

Yeah, right, course it was!!!

Idiots.
Tut tut tut Andy. Idiots , really ?
It does sound like a pretty lazy attempt at an April Fool.

The Daily Telegraph had a good one about an Indonesian Gravediggers' Chess Championship, with the slogan "Dig For Victory".
Except it was perfectly true ...
Best one I saw was in the i about Cornwall making a Cornish language test compulsory for tourists, with results verified by QR code. The subtle ones are the best.
the good one was on last nights One Show, Alex Jones and her co presenter, were gobsmacked when Matt Lucas revealed his prank, that he was going to be in the Line of Duty. ha ha they got a rather funny reveal and were completely fooled.
Years ago BBC show Panorama did a report on spaghetti trees - many were taken in, unbelievably.


In 2003 Richard and Judy reported on a new translator that you spoke English in to and it immediately translated and played it back in any language. Who believed that these things would be readily available less than 20 years later?


The best April Fool i ever read came in a monthly military magazine in the early 70s, which reported that the MOD were looking at ways to adapt the SLR (Self Loading Rifle) so that it could shoot round corners. Quite a few dumb squaddies were taken in by that one. The mag in question did carry a 'reveal' on it's back page.
that Spaghetti one was in the 70's i think, when pasta wasn't quite so well known in UK, i guess that many were taken in by it,
i confess its a good joke.
Definitely 1957, maybe it was repeated in the 70s
maybe Barry

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