April Fools Day

Ah April Fools Day and the newspapers are printin their spoofs. It is the one day of the year when I turn to The Guardoian first as their spoofs are normally the best. I still treasure the San Serriffe  spoof of 1977, very very funny and from a time when most people had no idea about the font names used. This year The Guardian have a Royal wedding themed spoof, apparently there are only 29 days to go and The Guardian has started its live coverage. Being The Guardian the gags are somewhat slanted, for example this Melanie Phillips one:

'8.24am: The commentator Melanie Phillips has made a typically pungent intervention into the political debate surrounding the royal nuptials. On her Spectator blog, she writes:

It shows a spinelessness depressingly typical of David Cameron's craven shower of apologists that he has done so little to ensure that William and Kate's wedding vows contain no strident condemnation of the insidious Islamist extremism that has come to dominate the thinking of Britain's Royal Family. Truly, the West has been lost.

It's a thought-provoking piece.'

Yes, yes, very funny; Melanie Phillips has an understandable bee in her bonnet about Islamism, I wonder why.

However there are some funnier moments:

' Meanwhile, Esther Addley is heading up a team of reporters who are already based in special wifi-enabled tents on the Mall and outside Westminster Abbey. She tweets:
@estheraddley On Mall. Mood palpable. no sign of crowd yet but slowly building thru day. Ice crm vn playing nat.Anth, no queue. so exciting!!! #gdnroywed'

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Royal aides, keen to avoid the 'Flakegate' controversy that Anthea Turner attracted after posing with a Cadbury's Flake for OK! magazine on her wedding day, have ordered that all confectionery consumed during the service be unpackaged and wrapped in white napkins. A palace spokesman said a team of 10 equerries would be tasked with unwrapping Twix, Snickers and Drifters, with a further five dedicated to non-chocolate items such as Fruit Pastilles and Opal Fruits. "The chocolate bars will each be wrapped in one napkin," a spokesman said. He later conceded to the Guardian that some bars — such as a Curly Wurly — may require two napkins.'

What is of course even funnier are the reactions of some Guardian readers who in true left fashion couldn't spot the spoof and immediately complained. Here are my favourites so far:

'TheOneExeption

1 April 2011 7:42AM

No! Not you too Guardian, I thought I could trust you!

constantseeker

1 April 2011 7:47AM

Youve got to be fucking kidding me!!!

RubberDucky

1 April 2011 8:02AM

Two rich people, one from a family with a very dubious past, get married. Yawn.
This newspaper is becoming more and more like a tabloid everyday.
Any plans for page three yet?'

And then there are the angry Guardian readers:

'territorialisation

1 April 2011 7:54AM

funny, just that after that 'supporting the lib dems' thing this time last year, i wouldn't put it past you. just saying.

ct001

1 April 2011 8:11AM

I thought you'd celebrate today by telling us all to vote Lib Dem again. Nice one, bastards.'

No BMW spoof online yet, so here's last years...

Oddly The Telegraph also have a wedding based April Fool this one being from a different angle

'Labour memo: celebrate Ed Miliband's wedding with street party

Labour party members have been urged to celebrate the forthcoming wedding of Ed Miliband and Justine Thornton with street parties, trifles and bunting, according to a secret memo seen by The Daily Telegraph.'

There are some lovely touches in this piece but unlike The Guardian's it won't be updated durin the day...