Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggsis an American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. Skaggs is one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. Skaggs has used Kim Yung Soo, Joe Bones, Joseph Bonuso, Giuseppe Scaggioli, Dr. Joseph Gregor, and the Rev. Anthony Joseph as aliases...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
CountryUnited States of America
artist difficult loved painting realized seriously taken
I loved painting and sculpting, but realized how difficult it was for a young artist to be taken seriously by the art establishment.
access business figured government media messages
If government and big business could access the media to get their messages out, I figured I could too.
jobs media premises
The media's job is to question a premise.
artist ideas people
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
bills tribes function
We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
trust salt trust-me
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.
artist fine fine-arts
I've always been a fine artist.
stories release duty
Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.
easier ifs i-can
It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.
successful wire stories
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
issues attention passionate
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
hatred prejudice target
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
reality people trying
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
appear project
To be successful, this project had to appear completely real.