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
pay pray stay
You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.
fake-people important stories
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
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.
media voice hoaxes
I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.
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.
media massage messages
The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.
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.
media hands firsts
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.