Elon Musk has led this yr’s April Idiot’s Day pranks, telling his 179.5 million followers on X (previously Twitter, which he owned) that he’s leaving for a brand new job: at Disney.
The Tesla boss wrote:
“I’m excited to affix @Disney as their Director of DEI. I can not wait to work with Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy to make their content material MORE woke!
“Even the linguine.”
Others becoming a member of in on the April Fools’ Day frivolity included a Ricky Gervais Clip depend (@GervaisClips) in X, who revealed that Gervais’s alter ego, David Brent, the character he performed in his hit comedy The workplace – will return to our screens. He mentioned:
“Breaking information: Brent is again! It has simply been introduced that after eight years, David Brent will return for a brand new movie and album, titled ‘David Brent: Life on the Highway to Vegas’.
“Comino summer time 2024”.
Stranger issues have occurred.
@DMovies_org conscious:
“An unrecognizable Penelope Cruz and an animalistic Brian Cox star in what might be Ken Loach’s most blatantly romantic movie! In theaters Friday.”
The UK’s conventional media additionally acquired into the spirit of the day. The Telegraph The newspaper reported that Germany hopes an obscure legislation will forestall England soccer captain Harry Kane from enjoying for his native nation; one thing fairly area of interest, however appreciated by readers judging by the feedback beneath the article.
AND Saga Journal (which provides holidays for seniors) posted an advert for upcoming cruises, providing water snowboarding classes, breakdancing classes and bungee leaping off the bridge for passengers.
Inevitably, many journalists additionally took to social media to say that, with the present state of the world, it’s turning into more and more tough to distinguish between April Fools’ Day tales and real articles.