April Fools Chuckle Mania!

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mojo-photo-laughter.jpgWow, it turns out that the ease of typing stuff and posting it on a web page and a day dedicated to hoaxes combine perfectly to produce a veritable maelstrom of comedy good times. Here’s some of the April Fools yuk-yuks speeding through everyone’s favorite series of tubes today:

• This via Idolator: Rock FM in New Zealand thought it would be hi-lar-ious to spend the day advertising a fake Foo Fighters concert in Auckland. The DJs, who have apparently been living under rocks, expected “around 50 listeners” to turn up to the venue, where they would be treated to a Foo Fighters album being played on a tape deck. Instead, throngs of alt-rock-deprived Kiwis left their jobs and homes to get to the show, forcing the station to come clean.

• Kevin Shields will play all of Loveless at the Pitchfork festival! Meg White topless! A band with a naughty word in their name won’t be let into the UK! Oh wait, is that last one a joke? Go, Paper Thin Walls, go!

NME posted an actually rather amusing (if somewhat geeky) story about Amy Winehouse being scheduled as a guest star on British sci-fi TV series Dr. Who, portraying “an evil scientific genius rogue timelord” who “enslaves entire planets.” Not much of a stretch, wocka wocka. Gigwise piled on with a story about Winehouse licensing her hairdo to a wig company who would dub the hairpiece “The Wino.” Leave… Amy… alone!!!

• And finally, the Brown University Daily Herald reports a campus bookstore will be renovated to make it “a little less gay.” Ha?

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