Play a trick on mom April 1st. April Fool's Day: Ideas for Jokes and Pranks

In terms of the number of draws, this day is the record holder of the year. By the way, it is considered bad form to be offended by April Fools' jokes.

Sputnik Georgia has prepared a selection of "jokes" for those who want to play their household members, friends, colleagues, classmates on April Fool's Day and cheer up those around them - relatives, friends or just passers-by.

How to play household

Waking up early, put children's things for adults, and parents' things for children, replace slippers with a larger or smaller size. You can put slippers of different sizes, hide one sock from a different pair, or stitch a sock, and so on.

If you are not too lazy to spend a little time preparing the draw, you can sew up the sleeves or trousers in the clothes of your household with a thin, easily torn thread the night before. You can also sew the sleeve to the leg or sew the neck. Such innocent jokes will turn the process of dressing into a game and set all family members in a major way.

You can recall the jokes that we did more than once in childhood - paint the face of a sleeping person with toothpaste, ketchup or another quickly washed off mixture, and cover the soap with a colorless varnish so that it does not foam.

You can also squeeze out toothpaste, and instead fill the tube with milk, sour cream or mayonnaise with a syringe. By the way, milk would be funnier.

And yet, the divider of the tap can be tinted with liquid dye - blue or red, as a result, blue or red water will flow from the tap. By the way, the latter is scarier.

You can pour detergent into the toilet that lathers well, or put dry pasta under the toilet seat, and when someone sits on it, it will crack like it's broken.

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You can carry out various manipulations with cosmetics. For example, replace face cream or deodorant with butter.

In the kitchen, according to tradition, you can replace sugar with salt, add pepper to coffee - this drink is very invigorating in the morning, especially on April 1st. But it will be funnier to make fried eggs from sour cream and halves of a canned peach and serve jelly instead of juice.

The list of various jokes is endless, and it doesn’t matter how you play your family on April Fool’s Day. Most importantly, remember that this is a great occasion to have fun with the whole family.

How to prank friends

There are many jokes associated with the phone. For example, call a friend from an unknown phone number and say the following text: "Hello, this is Durov's corner? Do you need a talking horse? Just don't hang up, you know how difficult it is to type with your hoof!"

Or, call a friend and ask him not to answer the phone for a few minutes, as there is a telephone operator on the line and he could be electrocuted. After a while, call back, and if your friend picks up the phone, let out a heart-rending scream. This prank is not for the faint of heart, so joke in a way that does not harm your loved one.

For the next draw, you need to turn on forwarding to any number on your mobile phone - for example, a government agency, a hairdresser, a bathhouse or a rest home. There will be no limit to the surprise of people calling you when, instead of your greeting, they will hear an unfamiliar voice pronouncing the name of the organization.

You can play a prank on a friend by placing a farting pillow on him. To make the cushion more difficult to see, it is better to place it under the seat cushion. Just make sure the air has somewhere to go.

You can successfully pin it by offering cola with ice. Only now the ice should be filled with mentos chewing candy. After the ice melts and the cola reacts with the mentos, a real fountain is guaranteed.

A friend can be played in the following way, which is called "secret admirer". You should order a chic bouquet and enclose an anonymous note in which you indicate the place and time of the meeting, and a request to bring this very bouquet with you.

To meet with a girlfriend, you need to send a man unfamiliar to her, but he must come with his companion. Approaching your friend, he must take away the bouquet from her and hand it solemnly to his companion. But in order not to bring a loved one to the handle, you need to immediately appear and hand over flowers that were already intended for her.

If you work with a friend in the same office or get to his workplace without interference, you can paste over it with stickers on which you first write declarations of love, good wishes, and so on. Or just throw toys at his workplace, for example, frogs, various rattlesnakes, and so on.

By the way, you can have a party with friends and ask each of them to prepare several comic contests for the evening, and before the end of the holiday, sum up the results and present a prize for the most successful draw.

How to prank colleagues

The simplest prank to perform is to seal the mouse with tape and watch a perplexed colleague or colleagues. On the adhesive tape, you can draw or write something cool: "I'll be there after dinner, your little mouse."

© photo: Sputnik / Vladimir Vyatkin

Gala show "Congress of Fools" takes place in Moscow

Or even hide the mouse by placing a note with painted footprints and the words: "Don't look for me, I found a more caring daddy." You can also stick everything that is on it with double-sided tape to a colleague's table - pens, pencils, keyboards, notepads, mice, phones, and so on.

An explosion of laughter in the office guarantees a fan horn under a colleague's chair.

Wait for a colleague to leave the office for a bit, and change the birthday on his Facebook page to April 1, and look at his (her) reaction when they are bombarded with congratulations.

Want to prank all employees at the same time? Bring to work a box of delicious cakes or candy that says April 1st. At the same time, so in passing, say that you do not want something. I guarantee that no one will touch these goodies, as everyone will be wondering what you did with them.

You can also bring a box of sweet pads, for example, "Taste the Crunch" to the office, after replacing the contents with Whiskas pads and observe the reaction of colleagues to the "sweet" pads.

You can print out the boss's order to change the vacation schedule and post it on the bulletin board. Or say that half of the salary of each employee will be transferred to the organization's fund.

If your boss has a good sense of humor, you can prank him or her, or maybe them. For example, the whole team can write a letter of resignation of their own free will and bring it for signature at the same time. True, there is a danger that the boss will actually sign these statements.

You can also compose statements asking for financial assistance in the amount of 10 salaries in connection with the birth of five, flight to Venus, the arrival of aliens, and so on, it all depends on the flight of your imagination.

How to play teachers and classmates

For teachers, April 1 has always been a difficult day, as at every step there are pranks of young pranksters, for whom this day brings indescribable joy.

Schoolchildren are more resourceful than adults. The range of their jokes and pranks is quite extensive, and their fantasies can only be envied.

Among the most common school pranks is sticking stickers to the backs of classmates with inscriptions of various contents, such as "I'll ride with the breeze" or "if you don't have a horse, get on me."

The old joke, "where are you so smeared" always works. You can also offer someone soda by shaking the bottle well beforehand.

A simple prank that always works. On a piece of paper, write "a broom on the ceiling" and let it go around the class. One of the classmates who reads will definitely raise his head up, then the next one and so on. And with them, the teacher begins to look at the ceiling, trying to understand what is happening.

If you are not afraid of the teacher's righteous wrath, you can use the old trick and rub the chalkboard with dry soap. In this case, writing on the blackboard with chalk will not work. But keep in mind that you yourself will have to wash the board later.

Nowadays, almost every student has a mobile phone, so you can come up with different jokes related to the phone. Or just put lipstick on the phone and call him. His ear will be covered in lipstick after he picks up the phone.

For the next trick, take a large cardboard box and cut out the bottom. Put the cardboard on the cabinet so that the bottom fits snugly, fill it with confetti and cover it on top.

By the way, in order for the box to attract the attention of the teacher, you need to write something large on the side with a bright sticker that attracts attention, such as the sex of a boyfriend. When the teacher enters the classroom and sees the box, he will try to remove it or ask one of the students. Either way, the victim will be showered with confetti.

The teacher can be played by saying that the director calls him to him. But we must have time to hang a poster on the door of the director's office with the inscription: "The first of April, do not trust anyone!"

April Fool's drawings will give you a lot of vivid impressions, positive emotions and will be remembered for a long time. So turn on your imagination, have fun and amuse the people around you.

Just remember that the pranks should be adequate to the sense of humor of the one for whom you have prepared jokes for April 1, and observe a sense of proportion in everything so as not to offend someone inadvertently.

Material prepared on the basis of open sources

How to divorce your relatives, friends and just acquaintances on April 1? The relevance of this issue increases as this amazing holiday approaches, popularly referred to as the "April Fool's Day".

History of April Fool's Day - April 1

  • The first vague hints of the existence of this custom can be found in the literary works of French poets dating from the beginning of the 16th century.
  • There is historical evidence describing the actions of a Flemish nobleman who played his servant on April 1, 1539, forcing her to carry out playful assignments.

For the first time, the English writer John Aubrey mentioned the existence of the holiday of fools in the distant 1686.

  • A decade later, several Londoners attempted a hoax by letting Londoners know that a public lion-washing ceremony would take place at the Tower on April 1st.

Muscovites first encountered the April Fool's hoax in 1703. Arriving at the place of mass festivities at the invitation of street barkers to watch the "extraordinary performance", the people saw the stage with the curtain down.

At the appointed hour, the curtain was thrown open, and behind it everyone saw a canvas with a mocking text: "The first of April - do not trust anyone." No performance followed.

Despite the centuries-old tradition of April Fools' jokes, the leading positions in the arsenal of traditional jokes continue to be occupied by phrases about runaway milk and a back that has turned white from chalk. The most amazing thing is that these jokes continue to operate to this day.

How to play a husband?

  • A wife who loves to make fun of her beloved husband can cover the toilet with the thinnest cling film. As a rule, an unsuspecting sleepy person does not notice anything and sends natural needs. How good this joke is - both spouses decide, eliminating its consequences. At best, the joker will hear a few not too flattering expressions addressed to her. At worst, there will be a scandal. To arrange such a draw or not is up to you.
  • In a family with a child, you can organize such a joke: putting a hefty portion of squash caviar in a clean diaper in advance, wait for the moment when the husband enters the kitchen and, in front of the astonished spouse, start eating ... you know what. This must be done with gusto. When the husband comes to his senses, offer him to try an unusual treat.

A fairly standard joke is the substitution of the contents of the sugar bowl and salt shaker: salt and sugar are poured from one container to another. As a result, for breakfast, the husband makes himself either sweet scrambled eggs or salty tea, and with a particularly “successful” set of circumstances, both.

  • Quite often, wives make fun of sleeping husbands by painting their toenails green. For those who choose this option, we give a hint in advance: hydrogen peroxide will help to cope with greenery.

How to play a wife on April 1 - video

A harmless but effective prank for a wife with a sense of humor.

How to play a prank on your parents? Or how to divorce parents on April 1?


How to prank friends? Or how to breed a friend on April 1?

How to breed friends on the first day of April?


How to prank friends on April 1 - examples in the video:

How to breed and play classmates at school on April 1?

To draw classmates on the first day of April, there are many ways that have already become traditional. Let's remember them:


With the advent of prank departments in our malls, classmates got a way to play pranks on their comrades at school. Especially for the April Fool's drawings, they can buy there:

  1. Chewing gum with a disgusting taste (for example, dichlorvos).
  2. Candy with insects inside. Made of food-grade plastic, they will not cause the slightest harm to health, although they make a rather repulsive impression.
  3. A spyglass with an eyepiece that leaves a mark around the eye that resembles a completely natural bruise.
  4. A pen with splattered ink. Defiantly spraying them with an overly elegant classmate and enjoying a violent reaction on her part, you can follow the process of the disappearance of the stain with no less pleasure (this ink disappears after drying).

Harmless pranks of colleagues

Office workers have a huge number of ways to play each other, because everything you need for this is on any desktop.

Tape prank in the office - video:

  • Having printed an image of paper clips on a copier, they put it under a transparent tray: someone will certainly try to get them out of there.
  • Computer mice of all employees are glued to the table with double-sided tape.
  • On the doors of the toilets (preferably on a couple of floors), a notice is posted that they are being renovated.
  • The drawers of the desks are pasted over with double-sided tape so that they open at the same time.

How to breed the boss on April 1?

Before you divorce the boss, you need to think carefully about whether you will have to regret it later. If he does not have problems with a sense of humor and vindictiveness, he does not suffer, you can start preparing the April Fool's prank.


How to breed a beloved guy on April 1? Or a prank on a loved one


how to joke on the internet

There are a great many ways to play a harmless prank, and as information technology develops, the number of ways that make it easy to convey humorous disinformation is also increasing. Nowadays, it has become possible to divorce your loved ones over the Internet and via SMS.

Ways of April Fool's drawings on the Internet can be as follows:

  • Secretly from someone close (parents or a guy with whom they live together), they change the password for their favorite computer toy. Imagine their annoyance when they make several attempts to enter it.
  • You can play a loved one in contact by sending him a special link, by clicking on which he will be confused by the sudden change of language on his page. Information on how exactly this is done can be obtained using the search bar of your browser.
How to prank a friend on VKontakte by sending a message from a celebrity - video:



When choosing drawings for April 1 for parents, you will need to be especially careful. Unlike friends or colleagues, parents always worry deeply about their children. Therefore, you need to make sure that the joke cheers up on April Fool's Day, and does not upset and make you worry.

Pranks for parents should not be topical. Your goal is to make dad and mom happy, while not hurting their feelings and not spoiling the mood with the wrong joke. We have collected drawings for April 1 for parents at home or by phone, which can be carried out safely.

#1 Delicious breakfast with a surprise

You can do it on a holiday, because April Fool's Day is also a holiday, something extremely pleasant. For example, prepare breakfast, but with a surprise. Add more pepper or garlic to the scrambled eggs. Use shredded coconut instead of spices. But here it is important to cook the second, correct and tasty version of the dish. When the joke takes place, then the scrambled eggs with pepper will need to be replaced with a dish in its normal performance. It will turn out, on the one hand, to play mom, and on the other hand, to please her with breakfast in bed. You can serve it as a drink right in the morning.



Which dish is suitable for the draw

So, one processed cheese is taken. It should be put in the refrigerator for half an hour, and then grated on a fine grater. Add a head of garlic, all the cloves of which are also grated on a fine grater. If there is red chili in the refrigerator, then it can also be safely added to this festive April Fool's dish.

Now balls of the same size are made from the resulting mass. On top of that, each ball must be dipped in coconut flakes. As a result, you will get a delicious dessert that is beautiful in appearance, which should stand in the refrigerator for several more hours before serving to your beloved mother on the morning of April 1.

No. 2 Carrying out work to replace the cable

If you manage to buy an envelope at the post office in advance, then on April 1 you will be able to implement this draw. You will need to write in the sender field a company with some name like “Looking into the Future” or something like that. In the morning, give your mother a letter, saying that you took it out of the mailbox yesterday.




The letter will contain texts, which, of course, you will have to type on a computer and print in advance. Mom will read that on the second of April they will lay a cable in the house and it is necessary to fix all the windows with adhesive tape. If this is not done, then the glass may fall out during work. In order for the company to cover all losses, you need to send a standard application to the specified address, as well as a receipt for the purchase of adhesive tape. This prank is funny, but don't let the situation go too far. It is important to reveal your insidious plans in time and tell that today is April 1 and you should not believe such letters, because their own children could write them!

Of course, April 1 pranks for parents on the phone or in real life require more thorough preparation. If mothers are gullible, then dads are always waiting for a catch from any situation. But we know exactly what kind of jokes can work on April Fool's Day.

#1 Paint your nails

While dad is sleeping, you can paint his toenails. This lesson, in principle, is fun, you can safely connect your mother. After that, throw away nail polish remover from the house. In the morning, all that remains is to enjoy dad's festive reaction to the joke and wonder what tricks he will use to get rid of the paint on his nails. To calm dad, you can do it to him.




#2 The blanket ran away

It is also a great joke to sew a blanket to a sheet. It seems to be a children's rally, but for dad on April 1, it will also fit. It will be necessary to break into the room to the parents in the morning with some kind of statement that requires you to urgently get out of bed. For example, that the neighbors from above are pouring in the bathroom. Dad will need to get up quickly, but because of the blanket sewn to the sheet, this will be quite difficult.

Phone draw

You need to ask a friend with a serious voice of a teacher to call one of the parents and tell them that tomorrow they should come to school. You don't have to spend the whole evening confessing why parents might be called to school. And in the morning, when they are already leaving the house, remind them that today is April Fool's Day, congratulate them on the holiday and just laugh together.

Almost all drawings for April 1 for parents can be held free of charge. At least those jokes that we have given in this article require a minimum investment. At the same time, it will turn out to have a great laugh, enjoy the spectacle, and then, with high spirits, continue to walk merrily until April 1.



The first of April is the day of jokes and practical jokes. But, nowhere is it said that you can only joke about your friends and colleagues. Caring children will always think about how to prank their parents on this amazing fun holiday.

In inventing how to play mom and dad on April 1, you have to try a little. After all, parents require a particularly reverent attitude and attention. Therefore, drawings should not be topical. The main goal of the April Fool's drawing of relatives is to have fun together, as it should.

An interesting option on how to play mom can start with preparing breakfast. If you try hard, you can come up with and cook a dish with a twist. It can be pepper or garlic, some exotic spices, coconut flakes. Best of all, if a dessert is a delicious prank. Then, after the main breakfast, you can serve it and calmly follow the reaction of those who try this dessert. The most important thing is that mom and other family members will already be full, therefore, it will be a pleasure to refuse such a dessert and laugh at it.

How to make a prank dessert. You need to take one processed cheese and grate it on a fine grater, add more garlic (pass through a press) and finely chopped chili peppers. Now we need to make balls from this mass, which we roll in coconut flakes. The dessert will look very appetizing, it must be put in the refrigerator for at least thirty minutes before serving.




Another interesting way to play mom on April 1 requires you to pre-purchase an envelope in the mail. It should put a letter to write the address of the sender. For example, New Technologies LLC. On the first of April, give the letter to my mother and say that it arrived yesterday. The letter should contain a text with the following content: “According to the article of such and such a law, on April 2 of this year, a cable will be laid in the courtyard of your house. These works will be large-scale, therefore, so that they do not damage the windows of your house, we recommend that they be fixed with adhesive tape. If necessary, all financial costs associated with the purchase of adhesive tape, New Technologies LLC will reimburse you. You will need to write a statement and attach a copy of the receipt certified by the store accountant. If mom falls for such a prank, you need to prevent her from taking the situation too seriously and quickly tell what event this prank is associated with.

In the case of how to play mom and dad on April 1, you need to connect a maximum of fantasy and your acting skills. With mom, everything is more or less clear, drawings on April 1 for dad are a little more difficult to come up with and implement.

This method is also suitable for how to play mom at home, but with dad it will look more interesting and unexpected. While the parents are sleeping, you need to sneak into the bedroom and



paint daddy's legs on his feet. After that, it is important to remove all nail polish remover from the house, and in the morning enjoy the reaction of dad and his findings on how to get rid of unintentional nail decor.

Another interesting prank is sewing a blanket onto a sheet. In the morning, you need to burst into the parents' bedroom with some kind of spectacular statement and see how they will extricate themselves from the created ridiculous situation.

A funny but risky way to play mom on the phone or dad is to ask a girlfriend to call a parent and say that tomorrow, April 1, he will be called to school. It is necessary to admit to the prank just before the exit, when dad will put on shoes and once again chastise. This is a great and fun way to prank your parents on the phone.

A fun and effective way to prank your parents on April 1 is to show up home with a bottle of beer and a cigarette (not lit, of course) in your lips. This method of drawing on April 1 is suitable for those kids who usually behave well and do not abuse alcohol.

Drawings for April 1 for parents can wear quite classic options. For example, you can stick a toothbrush to the cup along the entire length. Mayonnaise or sour cream can be pumped into a tube of pasta. After the jokes are played, you need to congratulate everyone on April Fool's Day and try to convey your cheerful mood to your parents.

In how to play the parents at home, you just need to show a little imagination. Most traditional pranks, if you look at them from a slightly different angle, will also be relevant for parents. Relatives love not only to laugh at each other immediately after a joke, but also to remember later about funny joint situations.

How to play mom on April 1 or dad is understandable and there are many ways. The main thing here is not to go too far, so that the joke turns out to be equally fun for everyone, does not offend anyone and does not spoil the mood in the morning. Such a drawing is virtuoso and will definitely be remembered for a long time on the good side!

How to divorce your relatives, friends and just acquaintances on April 1? The relevance of this issue increases as this amazing holiday approaches, popularly referred to as the "April Fool's Day".

History of April Fool's Day - April 1

  • The first vague hints of the existence of this custom can be found in the literary works of French poets dating from the beginning of the 16th century.
  • There is historical evidence describing the actions of a Flemish nobleman who played his servant on April 1, 1539, forcing her to carry out playful assignments.

For the first time, the English writer John Aubrey mentioned the existence of the holiday of fools in the distant 1686.

  • A decade later, several Londoners attempted a hoax by letting Londoners know that a public lion-washing ceremony would take place at the Tower on April 1st.

Muscovites first encountered the April Fool's hoax in 1703. Arriving at the place of mass festivities at the invitation of street barkers to watch the “extraordinary performance”, the people saw the stage with the curtain down. At the appointed hour, the curtain was thrown open, and behind it everyone saw a canvas with a mocking text: “The first of April - do not trust anyone.” No performance followed.

Despite the centuries-old tradition of April Fools' jokes, the leading positions in the arsenal of traditional jokes continue to be occupied by phrases about runaway milk and a back that has turned white from chalk. The most amazing thing is that these jokes continue to operate to this day.

How to play a husband?

  • A wife who loves to make fun of her beloved husband can cover the toilet with the thinnest cling film. As a rule, an unsuspecting sleepy person does not notice anything and sends natural needs. How good this joke is - both spouses decide, eliminating its consequences. At best, the joker will hear a few not too flattering expressions addressed to her. At worst, there will be a scandal. To arrange such a draw or not is up to you.
  • In a family with a child, you can organize such a joke: putting a hefty portion of squash caviar in a clean diaper in advance, wait for the moment when the husband enters the kitchen and, in front of the astonished spouse, start eating ... you know what. This must be done with gusto. When the husband comes to his senses, offer him to try an unusual treat.

A fairly standard joke is the substitution of the contents of the sugar bowl and salt shaker: salt and sugar are poured from one container to another. As a result, for breakfast, the husband makes himself either sweet scrambled eggs or salty tea, and with a particularly “successful” set of circumstances, both.

  • Quite often, wives make fun of sleeping husbands by painting their toenails green. For those who choose this option, we give a hint in advance: hydrogen peroxide will help to cope with greenery.

How to play a wife on April 1 - video

A harmless but effective prank for a wife with a sense of humor.

How to play a prank on your parents? Or how to divorce parents on April 1?


How to prank friends? Or how to breed a friend on April 1?

How to breed friends on the first day of April?


How to breed and play classmates at school on April 1?

To draw classmates on the first day of April, there are many ways that have already become traditional. Let's remember them:


With the advent of prank departments in our malls, classmates got a way to play pranks on their comrades at school. Especially for the April Fool's drawings, they can buy there:

  1. Chewing gum with a disgusting taste (for example, dichlorvos).
  2. Candy with insects inside. Made of food-grade plastic, they will not cause the slightest harm to health, although they make a rather repulsive impression.
  3. A spyglass with an eyepiece that leaves a mark around the eye that resembles a completely natural bruise.
  4. A pen with splattered ink. Defiantly spraying them with an overly elegant classmate and enjoying a violent reaction on her part, you can follow the process of the disappearance of the stain with no less pleasure (this ink disappears after drying).

Harmless pranks of colleagues

Office workers have a huge number of ways to play each other, because everything you need for this is on any desktop.

Tape prank in the office - video:

  • Having printed an image of paper clips on a copier, they put it under a transparent tray: someone will certainly try to get them out of there.
  • Computer mice of all employees are glued to the table with double-sided tape.
  • On the doors of the toilets (preferably on a couple of floors), a notice is posted that they are being renovated.
  • The drawers of the desks are pasted over with double-sided tape so that they open at the same time.

How to breed the boss on April 1?

Before you divorce the boss, you need to think carefully about whether you will have to regret it later. If he does not have problems with a sense of humor and vindictiveness, he does not suffer, you can start preparing the April Fool's prank.


How to breed a beloved guy on April 1? Or a prank on a loved one


how to joke on the internet

There are a great many ways to play a harmless prank, and as information technology develops, the number of ways that make it easy to convey humorous disinformation is also increasing. Nowadays, it has become possible to divorce your loved ones over the Internet and via SMS.

Ways of April Fool's drawings on the Internet can be as follows:

  • Secretly from someone close (parents or a guy with whom they live together), they change the password for their favorite computer toy. Imagine their annoyance when they make several attempts to enter it.
  • You can play a loved one in contact by sending him a special link, by clicking on which he will be confused by the sudden change of language on his page. Information on how exactly this is done can be obtained using the search bar of your browser.

How to prank a friend on VKontakte by sending a message from a celebrity - video:

  • You can puzzle your boyfriend on VK with a simple change of status or marital status. Sometimes you can create intrigue by opening and closing access to different blocks of personal information. In this case, not only he, but simply familiar people begin to show interest in the personal life of the user of the mysterious page.

april fools sms

The texts of April Fools' SMS can be something like this:

  • Dear, come quickly: the husband has already gone to work, and the child is still sleeping. I kiss tenderly, I wait (“by mistake” is sent to my husband).
  • Hello! I am a messed up text message. On the way to you, I met with friends and forgot who I went to. Send me back to someone. Thank you in advance.

April 1 is a rare day when you can tell the truth with impunity, because not a single living soul will believe in it.

  • If on April Fool's Day you become a victim of a prank, then you feel like the last fool, and if you could play someone yourself, then the first.