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	Fade to Black Interviews: Joey Skaggs
		Joey simply had his friend show up at the studio in his place.
		E.T. taped their 'exclusive' Joey Skaggs interview never catching on to the fact that the real Joey Skaggs was three thousand miles away in New York City.
		Joey shared some of the hilarious messages and faxes he received during his Dog Meat Soup piece.
	www.fadetoblack.com /interviews/joeyskaggs/pranks.htm (843 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Joey Skaggs
		Joey Skaggs (born 1945) is an US media prankster who has organized successful hoaxes and other presentations.
		Skaggs organized a sightseeing tour for hippies in the suburb of Queens.
		Cathouse for Dogs (1976): Skaggs published ad for a dog brothel in The Village Voice and hired actors to present their dogs for the benefit of ABC news crew.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Joey_Skaggs (1244 words)

	The Merry Prankster (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Skaggs, a lean ex-Brooklynite who favors cowboy boots, is a surprisingly affable artist who has made it his life's work to embarrass the Establishment, and to humiliate the media in particular.
		Skaggs forces reporters and the public alike to question and enter into dialogue on issues he perceives to be vital concerning morality and ethics, truth in news reportage, sensationalism, the effect the media has on public opinion and taste, and vice versa.
		Skaggs has also hoaxed his way onto Canadian television (as the inventor of a virtual-sex machine) and the BBC (as Baba Wa Simba, practitioner of a new stress-relief therapy that involves roaring like a lion).
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/news/MERRY_PRANKSTER.html (2092 words)

	Joey_Skaggs - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		In 1968, Skaggs noticed that middle-class suburbanites were going on tours of the East Village to observe hippies.
		Skaggs subsequently organized a sightseeing tour for hippies to observe the suburbs of Queens.
		In 1969, Skaggs tied a 50-foot bra to the front of the U.S. Treasury building on Wall Street, organized a Hell's Angels' wedding procession through the Lower East Side, and made grotesque Statues of Liberty on the 4th of July, again to protest against the Vietnam War.
	www.thewordbook.com /Joey_Skaggs (1217 words)

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		Portofess (1992): Skaggs appeared as Father Anthony Joseph with a portable confession booth alongside the Democratic National Convention.
		SEXONIX (1993): Skaggs created a hoax about a sex machine and claimed that it had been seized by the customs in the Canadian border on its way from USA.
		Baba Wa Simba (1995): Skaggs appeared in London as Baba Wa Simba who recommended therapy where the participatans would be roaring and behaving like a lion (reminiscence of primal scream therapy).
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joey_skaggs.html (1061 words)

	The Media Manipulator (No, Not Santa!) :: Honolulu Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Skaggs’ condos—complete with kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and baths—are just the sort of place that the upwardly mobile guppie would want to settle into and raise a school.
		Joey Skaggs is a prankster because he wants us to be better than what we are.
		Skaggs first came to the attention of the press in 1966 after he unveiled a mock-up of a decaying corpse nailed to a cross on Easter in New York City.
	www.honoluluweekly.com /cover/2006/12/kauai-man-windsurfs-to-california (2491 words)

	Signs of the Times - Duped! When Journalists Fall for Fake News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The theme park was the brainchild of Joey Skaggs, a conceptual artist and media hoaxer.
		Fake press releases and advertisements were all the bait Skaggs needed as one journalist after another failed to detect the ruse.
		Skaggs' how-to statement is a good description of 'pack journalism,' where one reporter follows up the work of another reporter without questioning the story's foundation.
	george.loper.org /trends/2002/May/71.html (3396 words)

	LA Weekly - Pranks and Beans
		It’s no surprise that Skaggs has few friends in the mainstream media, or that the revelation of his hoaxes receives less media attention than the original stories themselves.
		Neither is Skaggs, who started as a painter, taken seriously by the art world from which he emerged.
		Skaggs is one of a handful of artists who refuse to participate in the denial that allows the high-art world to keep rolling.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/00/27/art-harvey.php (934 words)

	ABC News: In Praise of a Liar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the mid 1970s, he emerged on various news reports as the proprietor of a dog bordello — what was otherwise called a "cathouse for dogs." Several years later he emerged as a would-be Sy Sperling with an outrageous plan to restore the hairline of balding men — follicle transplants from cadavers.
		Skaggs also has appeared in newspapers and TV as the proprietor of a celebrity sperm bank, the inventor of a health drink made from cockroaches and the first man to windsurf from Hawaii to California.
		Skaggs said the ideal recipients would be salesmen or TV news anchors who needed to "look their best" and could afford the $3,500 price tag.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=93122 (394 words)

	The Media Manipulator (No, Not Santa!) :: Honolulu Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Skaggs’ condos—complete with kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and baths—are just the sort of place that the upwardly mobile guppie would want to settle into and raise a school.
		Joey Skaggs is a prankster because he wants us to be better than what we are.
		Skaggs first came to the attention of the press in 1966 after he unveiled a mock-up of a decaying corpse nailed to a cross on Easter in New York City.
	honoluluweekly.com /cover/2006/12/kauai-man-windsurfs-to-california (2491 words)

	Speakers Platform Speakers Bureau: Joey Skaggs, Keynote Speaker On: Advertising/Public Relations, Social Issues, Humor, ...
		Joey Skaggs has been a doctor, a lawyer, an Indian chief.
		Using guerrilla tactics and advertising and public relations techniques to make social commentary, he carries on in the tradition of theater and satire while using the tools and technologies of the 21st century to communicate on a global scale.
		Skaggs is a storyteller, myth-maker, skeptic, philosopher, writer, performer, and artist.
	speaking.com /speakers/joeyskaggs.html (709 words)

	San Francisco - News - Conspiracy Weary - sfweekly.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Joey Skaggs, is, of course, the Joey Skaggs, the most accomplished hoaxster of our time.
		For the past 30 years Skaggs has been assembling hilarious hoaxes that have made fools of journalists, poked fun at cultural conceits, and generally provided a good time for Skaggs fans around the world.
		Skaggs claims his mistake was depending on those untrained in the art of quality hoaxing -- Mr.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/1998-03-11/news.html (1089 words)

	The First VR Sex Scam (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Skagg's booth at the show remained empty: he claimed all of his VR gear was confiscated by Canadian customs for obscenity reasons, putting Sexonix out of business.
		This isn't Skaggs' first hoax: previously he has been covered as a priest riding a mobile confessional booth servicing potential sinners at the Democratic 1992 convention, starting up a dog bordello, and even sending his own stooge when "To Tell the Truth" featured him (or whom they thought was the real Skaggs) on one episode.
		Skaggs claims he's a performance artist and the media coverage is his canvas.
	www.strom.com /pubwork/wireart.html (480 words)

	the truth is out there (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The purpose of his hoaxes, Skaggs said in our interview with him, is to "rock the boat;" to provoke people into thinking about how they are and how the media influences them.
		In addition, he encourages people to be critical of their news sources (Skaggs has hoaxed CNN 6 times; many times appearing with only a minimal disguise and using variations of his own name).
		Skaggs' hoaxes are also designed to address social and political issues.
	library.thinkquest.org /17067/entertain/nfjoey.html (279 words)

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		Skaggs turned things upside down, and took a bus full of hippies for a sight-seeing tour to some dull area of the city.
		Skaggs did not stop with the theoretical side, but "forced" the presenters to start bellowing "live" in the studio.
		This part of the event is his favourite, he says, for it rarely happens that journalists excuse themselves to their readers, or listeners and viewers, and admit their mistakes.
	www.ljudmila.org /media/e/events/skaggs.htm (491 words)

	Joey Skaggs - E7 Prankster
		Skaggs sees his role as that of the archetypal trickster, a character found in the literature and mythology of most cultures, whose role is to jar his fellows out of the workaday rut of their routines that includes accepting "news" as gospel.
		Skaggs makes the point that if he can con the media as one lone activist with a fax machine, perhaps readers and viewers can learn to be a bit skeptical of news orchestrated by vast government, political, and business empires.
		Don't suspend critical thinking for wishful thinking." : Skaggs sees his role as that of the archetypal trickster, a character found in the literature and mythology of most cultures, whose role is to jar his fellows out of the workaday rut of their routines that includes accepting "news" as gospel.
	www.9types.com /movieboard/messages/5456.html (3910 words)

	JOEY SKAGGS COMMENTARY
		Skaggs considers himself to be a performance artist, and cites as his influences the Surrealists and Absurdists of an earlier era.
		Joey Skaggs is a both a professional artist and a self-proclaimed socio-political activist.
		Skaggs, who is 56 and lives in Greenwich Village, has convinced gullible journalists that he is, among many other things, a psychic lawyer, a gypsy activist fighting the use of the term "gypsy moth" and a doctor who treats baldness by transplanting scalps from cadavers.
	joeyskaggs.com /html/comm/comm.html (16742 words)

	April Media Fools: Pranksters owe a lot to Joey Skaggs: News feature: News: Creative Loafing Charlotte
		Skaggs calls his pranks "plausible but non-existent realities," and says he was inspired "by the need to be cunning enough to fool journalists, while leaving clues and challenging them to catch me."
		Skaggs, who works for and often by himself, rarely profits from his stunts (although his "fish condos" — designer apartments for guppies — started as a joke and ended up selling as gifts for yuppies).
		And it's hard to forget the time Skaggs posed as the president of a Korean group called Kea So Joo and sent letters to shelters asking that unwanted dogs be sent to him to be used as food.
	charlotte.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:6514&comments=yes (1154 words)

	Salon.com business \| Stupid death tricks
		The Final Curtain turns out to be an elaborate media hoax cooked up by Joey Skaggs, a 45-year-old trickster in New York who's made a career of fooling the media and calling it art for nearly 35 years.
		Skaggs has appeared on CNN and "Good Morning America" as a drill sergeant with the Fat Squad, a fake disciplinarian diet program; WABC did an Emmy-nominated investigative segment on his Cat House for Dogs, a place to get your pooch laid.
		Skaggs refuses to reveal how much of his own money he spent on his latest prank; he makes a living selling paintings and sculpture and occasionally teaching.
	www.salon.com /business/feature/2000/05/31/deathhoax/index.html (579 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He is considered one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming.
		Wall Street Shoeshine (1979): Skaggs played Joseph Bucks, a shoeshine man who had become rich on Wall Street and was working his last day—at $5 a shine.
		Geraldo Hoax (1991): Skaggs appeared on Geraldo Rivera's TV talk show and told a story about New York artists living in water towers—which he had not done.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Joey_Skaggs (1179 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
		KAUAI resident and media hoaxer Joey Skaggs will be interviewed at 9 p.m.
		For more than three decades, Skaggs has taken great pleasure in duping news media to expose gaps in verification processes and to remind people that American journalism is built on trust and the freedom to make mistakes.
		Skaggs also has convinced gullible journalists that he is, among many other things, a psychic lawyer, a gypsy activist fighting the use of the term "gypsy moth," and a doctor who treats baldness by transplanting scalps from cadavers.
	www.starbulletin.com /2002/07/11/features/story4.html (226 words)

	Tom Tenney: Interview with Joey Skaggs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Joey Skaggs is an artist who uses the prank as art, and the American media as his canvas.
		That's Joey Skaggs!" So they called me early in the morning and said, "People are saying that you're Joey Skaggs, you're not Joe Bones".
		The Porta-fess [a prank where Joey dressed as a priest and rode a portable confessional around NYC on the back of a bicycle] offended a lot of people.
	www.otherbeauty.com /writing/joeyskaggs.html (4555 words)

	ABC News: The Boy Who Cried 'Fool' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Skaggs as Jo-Jo the Gypsy, protesting the racial implications of using the phrase "gypsy moth" for bugs.
		Skaggs emerged in 1981 as Dr. Josef Gregor, an entomologist who extolled the virtue of consuming cockroach hormones as a cure for colds, acne, anemia and menstrual cramps.
		Skaggs planted an ad in New York's Village Voice newspaper in 1976 that promised "a savory selection of hot bitches" for your sexually deprived mutt, with the warning: "dogs only." Skaggs posed as a dog pimp, promising every Rover satisfaction for only $50.
	www.abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=640141&page=3 (407 words)

	Speakers Platform: The Art of the Con: A Notorious Prankster Uses Hoaxes to Expose the Media
		Skaggs is also a media consultant, college instructor, international lecturer on culture-jamming and media activism, and a fine arts painter and sculptor.
		To satirize the busloads of tourists who came to the East Village to gawk at the hippies, Joey Skaggs rented a Greyhound sight-seeing bus and took sixty bearded, beaded, camera-toting hippies on a tour of suburban Queens.
		Joey Skaggs), artificial intelligence computer scientist specializing in the field of virtual reality, reported he had perfected the world`s first sexual virtual reality apparatus.
	www.speaking.com /articles_html/JoeySkaggs_1102.html (1494 words)

	CNN - Media are victims of hoax - Jan.30, 1996
		Last month Joey Skaggs presented himself as an expert on trial justice when he was interviewed for CNN.
		Skagg's Solomon Project farce was carried out at the offices of the Voyager Company, a creator of multi-media products, including a CD-ROM project in progress by the now-renowned prankster.
		Skaggs may have a point, according to Columbia University professor Rhonda Lipton.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /US/9601/scam_artist/index.html (442 words)

	AlterNet: MediaCulture: April Media Fools
		You may not know media prankster Joey Skaggs but chances are you know his heirs: the Yes Men, the Newsbreakers and even Michael Moore.
		Skaggs calls his pranks "plausible but non-existent realities," and says he was inspired "by the need to be cunning enough to fool journalists, while leaving clues and challenging them to catch me. "
		Then there was the made-up laboratory where Dr. Josef Gregor (aka Skaggs) bred a strain of cockroaches that produced hormones to cure illness and protect humans from radiation.
	www.alternet.org /mediaculture/21654 (1131 words)

	disinformation \| joey skaggs: media prankster superstar
		Joey Skaggs is a multimedia prankster, acknowledged as the Godfather of Culture Jamming.
		Skagg's documented 'sinker' exposes their shoddy research, and the chimera of journalistic integrity.
		Skaggs laid the groundwork for organizations such as ®ark and Adbusters.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id460/pg1 (1066 words)

	Top Pranksters
		We've talked with Joey Skaggs and it looks like he is up to his old shenanigans again in 2003.
		Joey Skaggs is considered to be the top prankster of recent times.
		Skaggs is also responsible for the Hippie Bus Tour of Queens, Fame Exchange with John and Yoko, Celebrity Sperm Bank, Gypsies Against Stereotypical Propaganda, Windsurfing from Hawaii to California, Fish Condos, Bad Guys Talent Management Agency, Brooklyn Bridge Lottery, Maqdananda: the Psychic Attorney, and the notorious Rudy Doody happening in Washington Square Park.
	www.april-fools.us /top-pranksters.htm (664 words)

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