Improv Everywhere?
As of today, Improv Everywhere is changing its name due to legal action by a jazz combo from the 1980s. It seems said combo recorded and self-released three albums of improvisational jazz under the name “Improv Everywhere” in 1983.
Apparently one of the members of the long-since defunct group saw us on This American Life last week. He sent us a cease and desist letter asking that we stop using the name.
Effective today, we are changing our name to “Humor In Public Places” (HIPP for short.) While not as good as the name we’ve used for the past five years, we hope you will still enjoy our website under this new banner. As of now, we have no plans to change our URL. Rather than focusing on the negative, we’re excited to start getting HIPP!
Good one! What other sites have cool pranks today?
almost…almost. but deafnews got me first!
you got me! :)
I love all the “OMG that sucks” comments.
I wonder when they’ll come to…
XD Nice one guys, you almost got me for a second! XD
I can’t believe I fell for that, lock stock & barrell!! Very good, have gained new admiration & respect . . .
LOL I fell for ir too, completely forgot it was 4/1!
Gmail came up with Gmail Paper for today, I completely fell for it, hilarious. Check it out http://www.gmail.com
I was expecting a little more today
Gotme! Although HIPP is not a bad name either, I was totally willing to go along with that…..
Miscreants!
You guys had me. Then I remembered what day it is.
You definitely got me. I was thinking, “They could totally beat that suit. Anyway, Humor In Public Places is a terrible name.” Too many real lawsuits lately!
hahaha I completely fell for it until I got to the new name
good one
Teaches me to read my emails at 3 am… thought this happened and another favorite site was being shut down. Now i can’t stop laughing at my exhausted idiocy. Anyway you guys need to make a shirt for this.. just as a joke.. (I’d buy).
Love it..
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Yeah, you got me too. I read it last night, didn’t occur to me that it was April 1st till i read the comments here. Good job!
Nice to see justice finally being done. My dad was a road manager for Improv Everywhere, and while they aren’t the most famous band in history, they had a great sound and don’t deserve their name dragged through the mud with all this sillyness.
Oh my goodnesssss. I’ve been complaining to all of my friends and family about the name change. Then of course I just went on to read the comments. And guess what! It’s April First! GAH!!! I feel like such an idiot :-/ Whoops. Lol :-D
Why do people always get all litigious as soon as someone starts getting some national exposure? You’re on TV and suddenly everyone wants a piece of you. Don’t stand for it, guys! There’re dozens of us here to support you.
ok – i’m willing to go along with this – but i was stupid enough to get caught on the april 1st suit from macdonald’s a couple years ago – so we’ll just see how long the header stays ‘hipp’.