I’d be just as curious to find out more about the origins of April Fools Day as I would to learn who decided it would be the only holiday to end midday. Perhaps someone realized how uncomfortable it would be to go to sleep with those around you given license to mess up your life. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the decision to cut the day short was made around the same time they discovered that putting a person’s hand in hot water would make them wet the bed.
I’d personally be fine loosing the holiday altogether. Practical jokes have always made me uneasy, if only due to my general fear of anticipation: I’m the sort of guy that would rather just get punched in the face than have someone tell me they were going to punch me in the face at some indiscriminate time in the future. Or maybe my feelings stem from a practical joke played on me when I was twelve. Even at that age, I probably should have known that Prince wasn’t going to sing at my birthday party, but that logic didn’t help dry the tears from my Purple Rain tour shirt.
No, I prefer a properly structured joke or well timed one-liner. It doesn’t have to be fancy, something like “a skeleton walks into a bar and orders a beer and a mop” suits me fine. So, for this April Fools Day I thought I’d bypass this passive aggressive ritual and offer up a mix of proper comedy, from standup to sketches to amusing songs, all much wittier than the cling wrap on the toilet gag, and without the unsightly mess.
PART ONE – THE VIDEO MIX
The Bible and Gun Club – Opening Scene
Pineapple Express – Opening Scene
Funny or Die – Ladyrefs (First Episode)
30 Rock – Aaron Sorkin Cameo
Parks and Recreation – Season 2 Opener
Funny or Die – Ladyrefs (Last Episode)
Election – Excerpt
Fido Dido 7-Up Commercial
Tim and Eric Season Cinco Commercial
Tim and Eric Awesome Show – Gravy Robbers
Tim and Eric Awesome Show – Pepperoni (Excerpt)
Tim and Eric Awesome Show – (For Your Health, Wine)
Punch Drunk Love – Mattress Man Commercial
Onion News – Iron Man Trailer Adapted Into Feature Film
McDLT Commercial feat. Jason Alexander
Saturday Night Live – Schmitt’s Gay Commercial
Saturday Night Live – Sprockets feat Kyle McLaughlin
Saturday Night Live – Male Synchronized Swimmers
Saturday Night Live – Eddie Murphy Undercover
Bowfinger – Excerpt
The Jerk – Excerpt
Hi Mom! Trailer
How They Get There – Spike Jonze Short
Four Lions – Excerpt
BBC Terrorism Awards
The Day Today – Gay Desk
The Day Today – Motivational Speaker
The Day Today – Sports with Alan Partridge
I’m Alan Partridge – Excerpt
Armando Ianucci Show – Hello Hugh
Time Trumpet – Eastenders Special Effects
The Mitchell and Webb Look – Doctor and Ice Cream Maker
Peep Show – Excerpt
Brass Eye – Special – Closing Number
Little Gordon Commercial
Frankie Boyle Best Man Sketch
Little Gordon Commercial
News – Bjork Attacks Reporter
Comedy Central Roast (Various Zingers)
Sarah Silverman – Jesus is Magic (Excerpt)
Larry Sanders – Final Episode – Jim Carrey Segment
Team America – Everyone Has AIDS
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PART TWO – THE AUDIO MIX
Rodney Dangerfield – No Respect Intro
Steve Martin – Hostages
Woody Allen – The Lost Generation
Richard Pryor – Wino
Charlie Murphy – Tsunami
Eddie Murphy – Singers
South Park – Colfax Point
Chris Rock – No Sex
Flight of the Conchords – Think About It
Chris Rock – Roger & Zapp
That Mitchell & Webb Sound – Relaxed DJ 7
On the Hour – Intro, News
On the Hour – TAB FM Audio Pullout
On the Hour – Sports Desk with Alan Partridge
The Day Today – September 11th
On the Hour – Sports Desk with Alan Partridge
The Armando Iannucci Show – Interview with Steven Spielberg
Blue Jam – Ambivalent Parents
That Mitchell and Webb Sound – The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Leicester Comedy Festival
Frankie Boyle – Various
Demetri Martin – Sitting Guitar
Steven Wright – Kitten Song
Steven Wright – Various
Woody Allen – Down South
Monty Python – The Galaxy Song
Bill Hicks – Sleep and the Message
Rodney Dangerfield – Song of No Respect
Flight of the Concords feat Rhys Darby – Leggy Blonde
Electric Adolescence – April Fools Day (Comedy Mix) (right click to download) 60 mins/ 256 kbps/ 146MB
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BONUS – THE WOODY ALLEN MIX
“Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” – Woody Allen
Woody Allen – The Vodka Ad
Harry James – You Made Me Love You
Harry James – I’ve Heard That Song Before
Louis Armstrong – Stardust
Woody Allen – Vegas
Television Personalities – Little Woody Allen
Woody Allen – Brooklyn
George Gershwin – Someone To Watch Over Me
Allo Darling – Woody Allen
Woody Allen – Oral Contraception
Woody Allen and His New Orleans Band – Last Night On the Back Porch
Woody Allen – Summing Up
Electric Adolescence – Happy Birthday Woody Allen (right click to download) 30 mins/ 320 kbps/ 68.7 MB
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