Ranking April Fool’s Pitches We Received From ‘Makes Sense’ To ‘Ahhh My Eyes, My Precious Eyes’

Ahh, April Fool’s Day. The only day in the year that encourages everyone to lie through their teeth while giggling from afar. The day that’s actually half of a day because of some stupid made-up rule that means it ends at 12pm. Who even made up that rule anyway? I say we abolish it. April Fool’s Day should get a whole 24 hours of unhinged fuckerama. Anyone who works in media, however, has a special kind of relationship with April Fool’s Day thanks to all of the prank pitches hitting our inboxes, tangled in with very legitimate announcements. Which ones are real, pressing news alerts and which ones are jokes? Who knows! It’s our job to weed out the fake ones so we don’t report on them like gullible fools. Egg? On our faces? Not