CW News April Fooled by Improv Everywhere Fake Funeral

CW News was fooled by Improv Everywhere's Best Funeral Ever Skit, and ran a segment in which they clearly believe it is a real funeral. Then (after IE revealed there was no real death), they unconvincingly attempt to pretend they were "playing along" the whole time. Finally, they top off the cover-up is worse than the crime charade with a DMCA take-down against IE's video (http://improveverywhere.com/2009/04/14/cw-11-files-copyright-claim/)! Here's the video that was good enough to suppress and deny over. You can also get it at http://www.sendspace.com/file/g6fent or http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2700237/cw_11_news_falls_for_fake_improv_everyw...

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Entertainment

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• cw
• ny
• IE
• April Fools

[lordshardik]

The best part is that they put the video on their website without asking permission from Improv Everywhere and then when Improv Everywhere put the news video up on youtube, the news people forced them to take it down.

[Falafax]

lol at 1:06 he scrolls down and sees the picture of the ass and tries to scroll back up

[joellypolly]

this is excellent to not even question anyone about it before putting it on the air... was their one of the anchors kids?

[stalkereatsbabys]

did they have a responce to this after they knew it was a fake? i'd love to see that!

[jadeyes914]

idiots. everyone at that funeral was an actor.

[souleaterfan1234]

lol why wpix.com rather than YouTube?

[Dr0p0ffCC]

it never occurred to anyone at CW news that MAYBE it was an april fools joke? they put the FOOL in april fools day.

[DankaloSaysHi]

wow, they must feel like idiots

[HollisterOrAE]

lol, a waste of words

[quixable]

its so funny that they're talking about people falling for "an April fools prank" and HELLO so are they... you think they could put 2 + 2 if they already knew it was a prank!!! Love the scrolling down to the ass too lol whoopies!!

[TheFinalCreation]

BAHHAHAH lol this just shows how shit TV news just are