[WalterBright]

I still remember the prank from the late 1980s when KING ran a story that the Space Needle fell over.

KING ran retractions for days, and did their best to bury the footage.

I saw it when KING ran it, and had a good laugh. It was an obvious prank (the video looked like a bad cut & paste job, and the reporters were local comedians from "Almost Live"), but too bad a handful of humorless people ruined it.

I ran into Bill Nye some years later and asked him about it, and he replied they got into a lot of trouble for it.

[Someone]

1989, I guess. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xeio-CJ0qZ8

[WalterBright]

I miss Almost Live. When KING would run reruns of it, they never did that one. Anyhow, they stopped all AL reruns a year or two ago. Sad.

[desi_ninja]

this has more details of what happened on that April's fools day https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2013/05/an-oral-...

[WalterBright]

Since about 10 years ago, Seattle started taking itself too seriously. It desperately needs a local humor show to add some balance, and what goes on is ripe for parody.

Almost Live was always making fun of Boeing, Microsoft, cops, local sports fans, anyone who lived in Kent, gangs, local hair metal bands, etc. All in good fun.

(They even got the hair metal band members to come on the show and parody themselves.)