Tag: April Fool’s Day
It would have been way too predictable for me to try to fool you on April Fool’s Day, but this BBC video from 1957 was actually just such a joke, likely the first April Fool’s prank by a major broadcaster. I remember seeing it on the tv show, Tonight Starring Jack Parr, and since I still remember it, obviously it made an impression, either because I thought it very funny or perhaps because I actually fell for it at the time. I was eight, after all. I was reminded of it again when my old clown partner Fred Yockers sent me a clip of it. This is the original BBC version:
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My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
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