Leo Laporte, TWiT Network April Fools Prank Failure
A planned April Fools' Day prank involving Leo Laporte and the TWiT network failed after Laporte inadvertently revealed the gag during a live stream. The bit was intended to feature a fake announcement that Laporte had purchased the show, but his 24/7 camera presence alerted fans to the joke prematurely.
leo laporte· twit network· april fools· randy asher· podcasting
00:01 There's no tech reporting going on. It's all lame! Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's April 1st 2010 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 187 This is No Agenda Absolutely no foolin' and coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where I missed my cue, of course. I could tell by the timing there because we have a lag all the time on this show. Northern Silicon Valley here. No April Fools John C. Duvorak.
00:44 It's 923. I don't think we've ever started this late. No, no we've started later than that unless i had an absolute technological meltdown well it was a number of just one thing after another this is april fool so we can start late yeah so uh you want to talk about that briefly before we get into executive producers? Yeah we're we had this April... I know wait let me correct you right off the bat not WE Kimo Sabe You sent me an email said look it's a tradition. I got to do an April Fools gag just say yes So the whole thing, unfortunately the clip has been dissected but so here was the idea
01:27 And by the way, I am known for these fabulous April Fool's gags. Oh yeah! You're like the wacky uncle with a slideshow when it comes to that. So I say well I got an idea we'll have Leo make the announcement... Actually it came from Randy Asher our One of our artists for Nerds on the Arc came up with this idea and so he did the art. So I said, well you know we can work around this and so the idea was going to be that were gonna do a third show but it's gonna be on Leo's twit network and Leo would announce that he kind of got carried away I guess and said that he bought us out
02:04 And so he did, but the problem is I contacted his people and said hey here's the gag. Here's what we want to do with Leo is going to have this in there. I want Leo to record that he's buying us or you bought our third show or something like that something funny and then You were... I was gonna get pissed off. I was gonna get angry. You're supposed to get pissed off and then we got to act a little bit Yeah! I was looking forward to the acting part Oh, when you do this acting you could, y'know, give us a little bit of it
02:42 I can't believe you've done that John after 187 episodes, 180... This is bullshit John. This is absolute crap! Do I have to go dig through the show? I told you about this two weeks ago. So anyway we're gonna do some acting and now- Wait a minute wait wait wait Mickey You're a professional actor how'd we do it That's right. She just quit Mickey just quit acting all together she's hey, you know It's pretty hard to top that kind of material and that is this pure genius? That's gold baby That's Oscar-winning material right there But because Leo Essentially has flipped out some night a few years back and has decided to put himself on the air 24 7
03:30 He does the recording live, you know with the cameras on him yesterday. Which of course blows up the whole joke. It blows the whole gag and I'm getting like tweets from everyone hey April Fool's coming out from Leo now they think it's Leo's gag. Yeah yeah. It's completely ruined! Leo gets all the credit Serves us right. And then I was going to complain about the fact that I can't get a bit part in the movie. So, so but the whole thing blew up because Leo has camera on him 24 7 and I think this is some psychological thing because he's always saying stuff they would never say on any of his shows you know it looks like it's like his alter ego basically. Well this what happens! You know? You forget and then just all sudden everything's out there
