Origin & the best jokes for WhatsApp, office & Co.
April April! Every year on April 1st, they crawl out of their hiding places: pranksters, pranksters, jokers and jesters perform creative April fools’ jokes and cheer up their surroundings or annoy people around them. Even people and media who are otherwise serious all year round can surprisingly mutate into comedians on April 1st. In the following guide we will give you ideas for jokes and pranks to imitate.
Many find the compulsively weird behavior at the expense of others just plain silly. Others love it, as long as they don’t fall victim to an April Fool’s joke themselves. Also this year nobody will probably be able to avoid one or the other joke on April 1st. If you are planning a prank yourself, you should of course not overdo it if your friends or family can take it seriously. After all, it’s best to laugh together in the end and nobody should suffer seriously or be shamed in public. So consider carefully when choosing a prank. Below we present good April Fools’ jokes that offer some incentives to make fun of your fellow human beings.
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Funny ideas for the best April Fools Day 2022 for office, friends and family
Below are a few ideas for April Fools’ jokes:
- salt instead of sugar is especially popular at home: Such a salty coffee has something – just unfortunately it doesn’t taste good. So simply exchange the sugar in the container at home or in the office for salt. Nobody will notice the difference at first glance, but even more so after the first sip. Salt also looks good on your victim’s toothbrush if you don’t want to waste coffee.
- Very sophisticated joke biscuits take it to the extreme in the restaurant and loosen the lid of the salt shaker – this is how the food of your counterpart gets the right seasoning. It’s a pity when it comes to eating together, so caution is advised here.
- Equally surprising are for your unsuspecting friends spicy gummy bears.
- “You have something…” and pointing your finger or “Your shoe/pants are open”: Some people just keep falling for it, whether it’s April 1st or any other day.
- The trick of putting the clocks forward in the household so that loved ones leave a little earlier rarely works in times of automatic time setting on mobile phones.
- The legendary “Inspected” game is not only suitable for great fun on April 1st.
- The typical school and youth pranks do not go out of fashion: toothpaste under the doorknob, items such as game controllers or remote controls high up on cupboards or other shelves hide can bring joy.
- the Toilet seat with shower gel or hair gel smear – especially small siblings could slip into the toilet bowl.
- Another classic is the Brussels sprouts hidden in a “Rocher” packaging.
- Glues in Post-It under the mouse in front of the sensor so that your April Fool’s victim struggles to control the PC without success.
Google also regularly comes up with April Fools’ jokes in the search engine, such as the Pokémon search in Google Maps:
April Fools for WhatsApp and Co.
- Write “Guess who’s at your doorstep…” on WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger, ideally when the chat partner has just written that he or she is also chilling out on the sofa in jogging pants or has just warmed up food. Unfortunately, you don’t see the searching face, but the idea alone gives many chatters a big grin.
- You can play the “Gofak” prank on a good friend on WhatsApp, but also on strangers on social networks. Especially on Twitter, the question about Gofak has been responsible for many laughs for weeks.
- With an additional app you can fake WhatsApp chats. Create screenshots of imaginary conversations to prank your friends.
- Another prank app offers the possibility to insert flames on photos. Here’s how you can trick a friend with a car and send them a fake photo of their vehicle on fire via Messenger.
- If you have online conferences via Zoom, Skype and Co. on April 1st, you can start the “Snap Camera”. This allows the popular filters from Snapchat to be placed over your face and used with a webcam on the PC. So you can appear as a funny dog, pirate or old woman at the next online meeting.
- are just as popular phone pranks: Suppress your number or let someone stranger speak to your friends for you. He or she then pretends to be a debt collector for pirated copies or a gas and water fitter who would like to lay the pipes and is still waiting for his 1,000 euro down payment.
Good April Fool’s jokes for on the go
Be careful here, too, so that you don’t get into trouble with strangers. They should understand humor and you should not overdo it. If your April Fool’s pranks are not exposed in front of others, you can try the following pranks:
- Inspired by Scrubs: Put a note in the Drive-in at a fast food chain It says “Microphone broken, please get out, step close to the microphone and speak loudly into it”. Then find a good position to watch the spectacle.
- “I scratched your car, sorry. My number is (Fake number like 01234567) write on it, pin it to a car of your choice and take cover. If the owner imaginary scratches is looking for, this makes pranksters laugh.
- Stares up at the street spellbound. Maybe people will fall for it and see what’s keeping you so captivated.
- Prints in Image of a banknote the end. It doesn’t even have to look particularly real, it also does joke money from games like Monopoly. For example, if you attach a fishing line to it and drape the whole thing nicely on the path, one or the other passer-by should bend down for the bill. Now, of course, pull the string so you have something to laugh about.
Tip: Of course, you should regularly double-check information on the Internet, but be particularly careful on April 1st. Large companies also use the day to spread one or the other “fake” news. We show you the “best” April Fool’s jokes from Apple and Co. from the past few years:
Where does April Fool’s come from? Origin quickly explained
On April 1st, people worldwide are sent into April. We break up the jokes with the words “April, April”. Probably caused the oldest April Fool’s joke a newspaper in 1774, who claimed that different colored hens would also lay the desired Easter eggs. However, the first occurrences to which today’s custom could be traced back to existed many centuries earlier.
Where did the April Fool’s joke come from? There is no exact evidence of its origin. But there are different theories. We present you some theses on the origin of the April Fool’s joke.
- In the Roman Empire there was with the “QuirinaliaA fool’s festival, similar to today’s carnival. According to the Roman calendar, the festival was always celebrated on February 17, but the festival could have slipped to April 1 due to calendar reforms.
- In 1564, the French King Charles IX changed New Year’s Day from April 1st to January 1st. Since people already had a sense of humor back then, they sent out invitations for New Year celebrations on April 1st.
- According to Christian belief, April 1st is more of an unlucky day: Lucifer is said to have entered hell on this day and the disciple Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus, is said to have been born and died on this day (source: custom wiki).
- Henry IV was made fun of by his people on April 1st. He received an invitation to a date with a girl in the pleasure palace. But the girl did not appear there, but her wife and his people. (Source: custom wiki)
- Our deceptive April weather that “does what it wants” is probably not the origin of April Fools’ jokes. April 1st is also eagerly celebrated in other latitudes with more constant weather conditions.
The expression “to send someone to April” has been known since 1618. So at least that long the custom of tricking others at the start of the second quarter must have existed.
What’s your favourite? Which April Fool’s joke was the best? Or have you ever gotten into real trouble? Tell us in the comments.
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