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 fine fine-arts
I've always been a fine artist.
trust salt trust-me
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.
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.
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.
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.
believe
What do we believe? Why do we believe it?
jobs media premises
The media's job is to question a premise.
fake-people important stories
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
thinking fool fooled
It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
attention became instilled media medium molded shaped vehicle
The media became not just a vehicle to get attention about an event, but a medium in itself, to be shaped and molded and instilled with my social-political agenda.