Class “A” April Fool’s Prank
Class “A” April Fool’s Prank
As you know, April Fool’s day was this past Tuesday – A day filled with misery, tears, panic, depression, and of course, laughters. (or hurt feelings.) I would now like to recount the tale of how I pulled off perhaps the most successful prank in April Fools History on my dear friend, and colleague, Nick Troiano (Pictured below).
The night before the official start of April Fool’s day, Nick had asked a friend of his to call me, and pose as a girl that I had schedule to go on a date with, but had stood up! Of course because this had never happened I was bewildered and confused, but thought perhaps I had simply forgotten about the meeting, and had made this poor girl wait for hours! So I offered to reschedule for some other time. She refused and hung up. A few minutes later, I realized it was April Fool’s day. That realization corresponded with a message from Nick clarifying that it was a joke.
Now was Revenge time.
I immediately began brainstorming ideas, and decided to talk to the ATV general manager, where both Nick and I have a TV show. I asked the GM to email Nick, and his Co producers, Graham and Bharat saying that their show had been canceled. Here is the email that I wrote for him to send.
“Nick, Graham, and Bharat,
First, let me start by saying that it has been a pleasure to have you on
as a part of the ATV family this last semester. I’ve really appreciated
the passion with which you’ve pursued Politics Now. However, that only
makes what I have to say more difficult.
Due to several complaints about your program having an “offensive”
far-right bias, as well as several emails suggesting that you copied
segments of your scripts directly from other news publications, I am
forced to cancel Politics Now. If you have suggestions for producers
who can continue the show without your involvement, please let me know,
and perhaps we can work something out.
Again, I’m very sorry about this. I know you all put a great deal of
work into the show, but Student Activities sets the policy we follow,
and I don’t have any choice.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, and I’ll try
and answer them, however, please know that there is very little I can do
about this. Also, please understand that it may be possible to continue
Politics Now in a few years, with SA’s approval, but we’ll have to
explore that option in the next few days.
Once again, I’m sorry.
Jeffrey”
Jeff sent that email the next morning. In the morning when I wake up, I get the following email from nick:
“jason,
If you put jeff up to this for an april fools joke, congrats I just had a heart attack and have been freaking out for the last half hour. It just dawned on me today is april fools, so I need to know NOW if this is a joke before I find a lawyer and go to SA and flip out. Please tell me this is a joke. If for some reason this is not – then do not repeat this email to anyone. We need to decide what to do before word gets out. -Nick”
About 2 seconds after reading that, I receive the following text message and the following text message dialogue ensues:
Nick (10:43am): “IS THIS A JOKE!? JASON! DID U DO THIS!? CHECK UR EMAIL”
Jason (10:45am): “IN CLASS. WILL LOOK LATER. JOKE?”
Nick (10:51am): “IM GOING TO GET MYSELF EXPELLED TELL ME NOW IF THIS [IS] A JOKE. IM IN CLASS”
Jason (10:53am): “EXPELLED? WOW! HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!”
Nick (10:54am): “SON OF A B***H JASON U REALLY GOT ME!”
And there you have it. perhaps one of the greatest April Fool’s Jokes I’ve ever played… I know it is hard to picture, but Nick is a very excitable fellow. He doesn’t do anything half-heartedly – not even freak out. And that is what makes this a success.
Until next time!
