15 Over-The-Top Celebrity Pranks
![15 Over-The-Top Celebrity Pranks](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/1/778351_320x180.jpg)
April Fool's Day can be... aggravating. The hardest-hit has always been the brands as well as politicians — Ted Cruz, McDonald's. You quickly become cynical.
Fortunately, renowned people on social media are on hand and save the day. Famous people often use April 1 to mock their rumor headlines, pretending to debut spectacular new hairstyles, faking pregnancies, or announcing outrageous new film investments. Once per day, those who get to deceive media and fans recapture their own stories in a strange way.
The suspense of a nighttime drop! The production quality makes people feel like a completely new episode! The youngsters who voice these characters were expertly cast! Rick and Morty pulled off a prank that…frankly…was pretty clever. Bring back some of these kids for 5th season.
Michael Keaton snuck a sex doll into Fred Rogers' closet when he was a young stagehand... and, as you might expect, hilarity ensued. Here's the complete story, as well as 14 others:
![George Clooney tricked a whole town with a fake celeb wedding. He put high-top chairs on the lawn of his Italian villa, making paparazzi swarm around the villa for weeks, as they thought Brad and Angelina's long-expected wedding was about to happen. Even the town's mayor got antsy and put police on alert, but nothing happened. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/6/778366.jpg)
![Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison gave someone a fake job offer as Apple CEO. Jobs and Ellison were on Apple's board in 1997, and they both emailed a rando who had been campaigning for the CEO job with the message that he got it. Sadly, the guy really believed it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/5/778365.jpg)
Source: SFGate
![Alfred Hitchcock got a guy to pick up a red-hot piece of metal from the ground. On a movie set, he heated up a coin on an open flame, then told a dude (who didn't see what Hitchcock was doing) to pick it up. He did, and got burned badly. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/4/778364.jpg)
Source: Google Books
![Terry Jones hosted a fake BBC documentary about flying penguins. BBC SUBSCA Jones showed up in a fake trailer for Miracles of Evolution, an elaborate BBC April Fools gag about a group of penguins who gained the ability to fly. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/2/778352.jpg)
Source: ABC
![Michael Jackson prank-called Russell Crowe for years (and they never met). MJ found out the name Crowe would stay in hotels under, and for years he'd call hotels and ask if he was around. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/9/778359.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![Kit Harington terrified Rose Leslie with a fake severed head in the fridge. The head even looked kind of like him, and he put it among the fruit so she'd SEE it just as she opened the fridge. He said that she was there in tears, and I was there going, 'April Fools. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/7/778357.jpg)
Source: Vanity Fair
![William Shatner faked falling to his death on a Twilight Zone set. priceli hive S OF GINO Shatner and another guy fought on an airplane wing, and then Shatner fell to the ground, apparently to his death - but it was all staged, and a lifelike dummy actually fell. Shatner did it all just to shock director Richard Donner. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/3/778363.jpg)
Source: MeTV
![Daniel Radcliffe trolled paparazzi by wearing the same thing for months. He realized paparazzi wouldn't take pics of him if he was wearing something they'd already photographed him in, so he wore the same outfit for 5 months in 2007. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/1/778361.jpg)
![Mark Zuckerberg called a meeting with a venture capital firm just to troll them. He met with Sequoia Capital in his PJs, with a pitch titled The Top Ten Reasons You Should Not Invest. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/3/778353.jpg)
Source: CBS Insights
![Liam Neeson called his Taken co-star Maggie Grace's ex in-character. He told him Your first mistake was dating out of your league, growling just like Bryan Mills did in the movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/2/778362.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![George Clooney put a f**k cops bumper sticker on Brad Pitt's car. It was shaped like a pot plant Because there's no way you're not getting arrested with that, said Clooney. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/4/778354.jpg)
Source: Vanity Fair
![Foo Fighters dropped 500 lbs. of spaghetti on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer. A long prank war between Foo Fighters and the Red Hot Chili Peppers led up to Foo Fighters dropping ping pong balls, glitter, and finally 500 pounds of spaghetti, on Chad Smith. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/6/778356.jpg)
Source: Diffuser.fm
![Michael Keaton put a blow-up sex doll in Mr. Rogers' closet. He was a young stagehand at that point, and Mr. Rogers was totally unfazed by the prank-- he took it out, fake-danced with it around the set, and then put it back. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/5/778355.jpg)
Source: JS Online
![Brad Pitt and David Fincher had their friends' phone and power lines cut off. They were in a Mexican resort on December 31, 1999, and Pitt wanted to make them think society had collapsed because of the Y2K bug. Oh, and then he had (bribed) government soldiers with AK-47 rush in and arrest one of them. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/0/778360.jpg)
![Keith Moon pranked department stores with an elaborate troll. It involved two friends-- he'd rip up a pair of pants in the store to test their strength with one of the friends, then the other one would come in and offer to buy half of the pants. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/8/778358.jpg)