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New Improv Everywhere: Ted’s Birthday

Charlie Todd — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:42:17 +0000

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For Improv Everywhere’s latest mission, 30 people throw a birthday party for a random stranger in a bar.

See the photos and read the report: Ted’s Birthday

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Fake Soccer Game

Charlie Todd — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:18:50 +0000

Here’s an oldie but a goodie we found over at The Art of the Prank:

In September 2004, Mexican artist Miguel Calderón secretly placed a TV set in a bar in Sao Paulo (Brazil). At a certain moment, an unannounced soccer match showed up in the screen. Mexico was playing against Brazil. Bar customers, who had no idea about the match, thought that somehow they missed the news. People started watching the match. Brazil lost 17-0.

It was all staged. Calderón had carefully re-edited various past games between both teams in order to create something completely impossible. The piece was shown as part of the Sao Paulo Art Biennal.

Celebrity for a Night

Charlie Todd — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:24:06 +0000

BostonSOS sent word of their latest mission, Celebrity for a Night. The group went out to a posh Boston bar, picked a random stranger, and then had agent after agent approach him thinking he was “David Mansfield” a fictitious celebrity who they claimed was a star on the NBC soap opera Passions. His “fans” bought him free drinks and asked for autographs. Eventually the random dude started playing along and other people in the bar bought into it. Seems like a mash-up of sorts of Improv Everywhere’s Ted’s Birthday and Ben Folds missions.

Check out their full report.