The ABC April Fool's Day Sketch

The ABC April Fools Day Sketch appears in Episode 19 and features Becky Lucas as Janet. Janet, a reporter from Landline, suggests the show do an April Fool's Day joke story about farmers with hoverboards.  This raises a range of problems with the producers and ABC staff including safety issues, fact based reporting issues, representation issues, the fact that the joke is a surprise and is played on April Fool’s day.  
The committee decides to play the joke story instead in May, on ABC2 in the early hours of the morning with a preamble to telegraph the surprise and to change the ‘joke’ to be about skateboards, making sure they use actual skateboarding farmers in order to make it factual.
Despite the precautions the ABC is still forced into an apology for the ‘joke’ story. 
Category:Sketches