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Only Fools and Horses episode ‘banned’ for 20 years for being too ‘cruel’

Only Fools and Horses episode ‘banned’ for 20 years for being too ‘cruel’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Only Fools and Horses star Tessa Peake-Jones has said modern sitcoms should be as heartwarming as the BBC sitcom – but the series almost tarnished its own loving reputation back when it first aired. In a new interview, the actor, who played Del Boy’s wife Racquel, said Only Fools’s enduring appeal is down to the writing having “so much heart”. She told The i Paper. “Some of the comedy today seems to be having a go at other people – it can be quite cruel in a way that I don’t find funny personally.” While Only Fools and Horses featured jokes made by entrepreneurial market trader Del Boy (Sir David Jason) at the expense of his hapless brother Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst), one controversial episode was “banned” for featuring a scene too “cruel” to air. ‘Only Fools and Horses’ episode was too …

This Watch Featuring Two Penguins Smashing Is Somehow Not an April Fools’ Day Joke

This Watch Featuring Two Penguins Smashing Is Somehow Not an April Fools’ Day Joke

Published by Jenni Sidey

Between the unremitting stream of AI slop, conspiracy theories, unsourced gossip, and deepfake videos, my patience for April Fools’ Day is at an all-time low. I’ve already trained myself to believe basically nothing I read or see on the internet without checking multiple sources, and here comes a whole day encouraging even more prankery. Enough. So my first thought when I woke up today and saw an alleged new watch from Swiss brand Nivada Grenchen—which features an automaton of two penguins exploring each other’s torpedo-shaped bodies on the caseback—I immediately dismissed it as a lurid prank and moved on. But as it turns out, the joke is on us. I saw the new “Antarctic Erotic” enough times that I finally sent an email to the brand’s PR rep to confirm it wasn’t a joke. “No joke at all!” they wrote back. “But a good amount of humor.” The very-real Nivada Grenchen Antarctic Erotic starts with a serious foundation. The Antarctic model is an identity touchpoint for the brand, which was founded in Grenchen, Switzerland, in …

Conspiracy Theorists Are Going to Have a Field Day as NASA Gears Up to Launch Historic Moon Mission on April Fools’ Day

Conspiracy Theorists Are Going to Have a Field Day as NASA Gears Up to Launch Historic Moon Mission on April Fools’ Day

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Conspiracy theories have run rampant over the decades following NASA’s historic Apollo missions to the surface of the Moon. Based on twisted or misunderstood evidence, they argue that NASA somehow faked its groundbreaking lunar landings, tampering with evidence or faking TV broadcast footage in a studio to mislead the public. Despite being debunked time and time again, a startling proportion of the public still hold onto these claims. According to a 2022 survey, an outrageous ten percent of respondents said they agreed with conspiracy claims that NASA faked the Moon landings. Today, 53 and a half years after Apollo 17, the last crewed Moon landing, NASA is counting down for its Artemis 2 crewed lunar mission tonight. It’s a historic moment that also happens to take place on a highly unusual date: April Fools’ Day, which could give some of the most foolhardy individuals out there ammunition to hold on to their skewed views. Futurism reached out to NASA …

Arc Boats’ new ‘high-octane package’ makes your boat worse for April Fools

Arc Boats’ new ‘high-octane package’ makes your boat worse for April Fools

Published by skeptic

It’s April Fools’ Day, also known as the worst day on the internet, where everyone thinks they’re clever with their fake announcements. But Arc Boats has a pretty clever one today, which makes a real point about the benefits of electric propulsion. Arc is an electric boat company, which started out making high-performance sport boats and is now working to hybridize other parts of the marine industry. As such, it likes to tout the superiority of electric propulsion, and to point out the annoyances that boat owners have always had to go through in order to keep their fossil-powered boats running. Advertisement – scroll for more content Electric propulsion is cleaner, more reliable, quieter, cheaper to fuel, easier to maintain, and if you’ve got a dock then you don’t even need to go anywhere to fill up. So, how better to make all those points than to offer an optional package to make your boat worse, just to remind you of the bad old days of having to burn millions-year-old dino juice to get around. …

April Fools’ Day 2026: The Good, the Bad and the Bizarre of This Year’s Corporate Jokes

April Fools’ Day 2026: The Good, the Bad and the Bizarre of This Year’s Corporate Jokes

Published by skeptic

If you’re online at all in 2026, you know it can feel like April Fools’ Day every day. You’ve almost certainly come across videos and content, often created with AI, and had to stop and ask yourself if what you’re looking at is true or made up.  Some are obvious. You mean, there aren’t really beds made of kittens, cotton candy and rubies? And I wasn’t really offered a job guarding a spooky funeral home where I might hear tapping coming from the morgue freezer at 3 a.m.? (Both of these are TikTok videos, and the AI is scarily good — and also just scary.) As brands roll out their April Fools’ Day jokes for this year, I keep thinking that in an AI-heavy world, the jokes seem less surprising, the faked-up art less novel. Here are some highlights from this year’s list of April 1 corporate and tech jokes. Warhammer: The Musical Hey, if Broadway can make a musical about Alexander Hamilton, or a bunch of cats, surely they can make one about the …

April Fools’ Day ‘à la française’: Are the French funny? – Entre Nous

April Fools’ Day ‘à la française’: Are the French funny? – Entre Nous

Published by Sam Flores

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again ENTRE NOUS © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 01/04/2026 – 17:16 06:36 min From the show Reading time 1 min Happy “April Fish” Day! To mark “Poisson d’Avril” – the French version of April Fools’ Day – we take a look at the origins of the tradition, whether it’s fading in the age of AI and fake news, and whether the French are especially funny – or simply keen to laugh more. By: Source link

Why do we play pranks on April Fools’ Day? Here’s where the silly tradition began

Why do we play pranks on April Fools’ Day? Here’s where the silly tradition began

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more April Fools’ Day is a funny one. Developed over centuries, it’s a tradition that gives people the permission to prank. Some leg-pulls are delightful – while others can cause distress and damage, especially if they’re rolled out on a large scale. There’s a fine line between jokes that charm and those that harm. This overstep, especially in regard to the media and politics, warrants close attention. A cheeky pasta prank Historians conjecture the mischief most likely began in earnest in the 1500s in France, when the Julian calendar – which started the year on April 1 – was replaced by the Gregorian calendar we use today. But not everyone got the memo; those who continued to celebrate the new year on April 1 were …

Only Fools and Horses star reveals why there was tension before filming sitcom

Only Fools and Horses star reveals why there was tension before filming sitcom

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Only Fools and Horses is one of the funniest sitcoms of all time – but you might not have known it if you saw the actors on set. Tessa Peake-Jones, who played Raquel, the wife of Sir David Jason’s Del Boy Trotter, has reflected on the filming experience ahead of the show’s 45th anniversary. While the cast members, including Nicholas Lyndhurst and Gwyneth Strong (Rodney and Cassandra), all got on together, they found themselves overcome with pressure before shooting scenes in front of a live audience. “If people had seen us backstage before the show, they’d have seen people pacing up and down the corridors with nerves, including David and Nick,” Peake-Jones said. “We cared so much, and we wanted to get it right, but one slip-up of a word could ruin that laugh.” She also admitted that the many jokes …

Only Fools and Horses legend reveals why part of nostalgic new documentary for classic comedy was “torture”

Only Fools and Horses legend reveals why part of nostalgic new documentary for classic comedy was “torture”

Published by Daniella Wilson

Only Fools and Horses star Tessa Peake-Jones has admitted that parts of filming a retrospective documentary for U&GOLD felt like “torture” – but she expects viewers to enjoy it immensely. The actor, who played Raquel in the long-running and truly iconic British sitcom, is one of several original cast members to appear in Only Fools and Horses: The Lost Archive, which celebrates 45 years since the series premiered on our screens. The two-parer promises to show fans behind-the-scenes footage, newly-discovered images and deleted scenes, which have been digitally scanned and restored from 16mm negatives. “I think the public will really enjoy the programme, partly because it is unseen footage,” said Peake-Jones, during an appearance on The One Show. “So no one, including us, has ever seen this stuff.” Nevertheless, she also found looking back to be “really weird” and not always enjoyable. “It’s not like you’re looking at something from a couple of years ago,” continued Peake-Jones. “This is decades and decades ago. So, I mean, we were in, you know, our 30s, 40s, 50s …

AI-Lawyers Will Have Fools for Clients

AI-Lawyers Will Have Fools for Clients

Published by Jenni Sidey

With OpenAI in an increasingly precarious financial position, and In a recent Financial Times interviews on the cusp of “professional-grade AGI” that will deliver “human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks” and, as a consequence, most of the work currently done by accountants, lawyers and other professionals “will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.” (I will assess his prediction 18 months from now. Anyone want to wager on its accuracy?) Suleyman’s unrealistic blather is deeply reminiscent of AI guru We should stop training radiologists now, it’s just completely obvious within five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists. Ten years later, the demand for human radiologists is stronger than ever. Of course, People say, It’s just glorified autocomplete . . . Now, let’s analyze that. Suppose you want to be really good at predicting the next word. If you want to be really good, you have to understand what’s being said. That’s the only way. So by training something to be really good …