While I am not obsessive about April Fools’ Day, I have been known to put flour in a roommates blow dryer and set my high school boyfriend’s alarm to 3:45 in the morning to mark the day. I know I posted about the funniest April Fool joke of all time by Gmail over in my sideblog, but I just saw a totally awesome April Fools’ joke go down on live TV and since it involved a friend, it had me laughing my ass off and I had to share.
Some of you know that I have a dear friend, Bryan who has a cooking show on a news station in Salt Lake. He is fabulous and I have known him forever.
We’ve cooked and shared many a meal and recipe idea together.
I’ve gone to see him in the studio to cook and had the camera turned on me (which I admit, I loved), and he’s been known to give me ridiculous shout outs (which again, I totally cop to loving) on the air.
Like this:
I catch his show when I can. Today he was making a sour cream coffee cake. It is done on the noon news and so he cooks in little segments between news items and banters back and forth with the anchors in the studio.
Right before he unveiled the finished cake during his final segment, the anchors broke in and told him that they wouldn’t be able to finish his segment because he was being preempted by an exclusive interview they procured with Hannah Montana.
For about 2 seconds, Bryan looked really confused until they said “APRIL FOOLS’!”
Although it was admitted that his coffee cake WOULD have taken a back seat to an exclusive with Hannah Montana, it was seriously funny, and I’m glad that everyone there has a sense of humor.
So…Did anyone else have a practical joke played today? Did you pull anything yourself?? Have you done anything spectacular in the past on April 1st???
Hi Loralee, I just wanted to thank you for your thoughts and prayers, they mean the world to us!!!
Heather’s last blog post..How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
No April Foolin’ here but my favorite prank is to carefully slide Oreo cookies apart and remove the white filling with a knife and replace it with white toothpaste. Once, on a family vacation, my cousin ate an entire handful before commenting on the unusual taste. :-)
Heather:
I’m just so sorry for what you’re going through
Pants:
OMG! That is HILARIOUS.
Memo to me: TRY THIS AT SOME POINT.
A couple years ago at work, we changed the ringer on this guys phone, who was notorious for um, being confused.
The first time his phone rang? Was HILARIOUS. He had no idea what it was.
But, you might have had to have been there :)
No, I wouldn’t have to be there. I changed my OWN damn ringer and the first few times I sat around going “What the hell IS THAT?!”
Pretty sad when you prank yourself, huh?
I am literally walking on eggshells. Hubby ir a prankster but I think he has forgotten it is April Fool’s. I will NOT remind him nor go on the attack. His retribution is far, far worse.
Amber’s last blog post..Wordless Wednesday – Can you teach an old dad new tricks?
Your family cracks me up. When I was writing this I totally thought of you and Jamie and seriously wished I could be a fly on the wall at your house sometimes! (You know, in a totally non-pervy, non-peepish Tom sort of way, of course.)
I’ve never been one to pull April Fool’s Day pranks, although I’ve always wanted to do something on the web site I manage. However, I do not think the “management” would be very pleased with that and I know that many members of my audience wouldn’t find any humor in it.
The YouTube video gave me little warm fuzzies since that’s the station I used to work for in SLC. Of course, Chef Bryan is now at Channel 2 according to the link you provided, a station where several of my old colleagues have migrated. (Like any of that information is relevant to your post!)
And yeah, I could totally picture Amber’s household being a potential April Fool’s gold mine.
Jill – GlossyVeneer’s last blog post..Keep to the Format
He loved working at Fox13. They were very good to him and he loved them, but channel 2 gave him a lot better situation for his life.
The new studio where he cooks is freaking AMAZING. It’s Roth Concepts Center in Foothill village and it is amazing.
Since I know which site you manage I can TOTALLY see how that would be hysterical, but you are right, you would have people getting their knickers in a twist. (Some people have no idea of fun, I swear).
I have also been trying to convince Amber to pack Jamie into her suitcase and bring him to BlogHer with us. He freaking cracks me up.
Oooh… that would be funny to unleash Jamie on BlogHer! (Make me work now! Seriously… I can’t focus today!)
Jill – GlossyVeneer’s last blog post..Keep to the Format
That’s a pretty good prank.
See my blog for exhibit A (but don’t give it away!).
sizzle’s last blog post..Love Shack, Baby
I called my mom in college and told her I was pregnant. She was silent for a minute… I didn’t have the heart to break hers, so I confessed. I’m not very good with the pranks. I think I’ll make my husband think I’m making dinner tonight, though. When he finds out I’m not cooking anything he going to laugh sooo hard!!!!! (you don’t think so…. oh…. well….)
Erin Evans Taylor’s last blog post..There’s Not enough room in this head for the both of us….
One of the attorneys at work sent around an email saying the bathrooms had overflowed last night, and so please don’t use them. I was worried. But it turned out to be a joke, so the office manager and another attorney hauled this nasty old spare toilet from our basement up into the jokester attorney’s office while he was away for lunch and left it in place of his desk chair.
Then one of the other attorneys received a joke piece of mail about a really dumb invention to be patented. It was all pretty funny.
A loooong time ago, when I was a wee lass working as a checker in a grocery store…
On April Fools I told the new bagger that he had to go shake up the Italian Salad Dressings every 15 minutes to keep the particulates from settling.
I am lovely.
The Over-Thinker’s last blog post..These Should Go in the Vault (But not like The Disney Vault which we know isn’t really a vault but more like a temporary holding cell.)
Next time you’re on, let me know. Sometimes, when I am working at home, I watch that show.
Sometimes, also, I watch “Good Things Utah.”
I don’t know how I feel about this, so I try not to talk about it.
Recipe sounds good though.
jasonthe’s last blog post..Great American Hypocrites
I was just in the mood today, so there have been some minor shenanigans…
- Left long lists of chores for kids when they came home from school, with “April Fools” notes in the vicinity of the first one on the list. This was most effective with my 13 year old, who was good and mad by the time he found his note letting him off the hook.
-Texted sister that runs with me in annual relay and said I broke my foot this morning and was out of the relay. She still believes me, and my parents, children, and husband all vowed to support the prank for the duration.
- Have procured two sets of salmon steak: one to grill normally and one to burn the tarnation out of, then cry and insist my kids/husband are making me feel bad if they hesitate to eat it… I can’t wait for dinnertime!
I BOW to your genius, my friend. You are AMAZING!
I have a thing for babies. I love to rock ‘em and squish ‘em and cuddle ‘em, etc. Anyone who spends any amount of time around me and babies knows this about me. So when I started teaching in my very small private preschool 15 years ago, I kept asking the director if I couldn’t just teach an infant class. I begged for it all the time, but it was always no, no, no. Well, I planned way ahead for April Fool’s Day the year I turned 45 (this is important to remember)by making comments every time someone brought a baby into the school. “Ya know, I might just have to get me one of these” etc. I said it all the time. Well, on March 31 I went to visit my pregnant friend, who I knew had kept her home pregnancy test with the positive result. She let me borrow the little stick and I took it to school on April Fool’s day. At lunch I said to all the teachers, “You guys, there’s something I have to tell you and I just don’t know how to say it. Well, here, look at this.” The other girls just sat there, stunned, until one said, “OMG!!! Are you crazy?” But then I couldn’t keep it up any longer and I started laughing. We still talk about that at work. Somehow they don’t remember it being as funny as I thought it was…
I love the Oreos and burned dinner ideas. I wanted to do something funny with food today, but didn’t plan ahead.
One year my dad had moved into a new upscale subdivision. We debated putting a For Sale sign in his yard after he’d left for work with a ridiculously low price posted, but decided he would not find it funny.
Adria Sha’s last blog post..Invisible.
My kids are 20 months, 3 years and 5years so pranks kind of go over their heads at this age. All I did was make Shepherd’s pie in foil cupcake liners with pink mashed potatoes on top. My three year old was so excited to eat a cupcake for dinner. He licked the potatoes thinking it was frosting and then wouldn’t touch the rest. The joke was on me because none of them finished their dinner.
And I LOVE watching Bryan cook. (That’s not supposed to sound creepy, but maybe he should be a little nervous.)
I love that you have a friend that gives you shout-outs on the news. That is seriously awesome. Plus I am hungry now. Humpf.
SparklieSunShine’s last blog post..I Don’t Even Know
Wow-these are all such FUN ideas!! I wanted to get someone ALL DAY LONG, but I finally gave up…then at dinner last night Josh gave me a perfect opportunity. He loves the show Heroes, but he never gets online. He has been worried that maybe they just cancelled it-and honestly, I’ve been meaning to remember to look online and see what’s going on with the show (I don’t watch it), but I just never remember. He brought the show up last night, and I told him I had found out it had been cancelled. He was soooo sad. He acted like it completely ruined his dinner. It was hell trying to keep a straight face and act bummed out for him. I didn’t let it go too long (about 10 minutes) before I said “what’s the date?” and he looked at his phone and said “April 1st” and I busted out laughing (in the restaraunt) and doing arm pumps and jumping around saying “oooooooh I got you!!!!”-so basically I put the FOOL in April Fools Day!
Cory’s last blog post..Finally!!!