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Bill Gates April Fooled by Radio Station
April 4, 2002 8:51 am EST
MONTREAL (Reuters) - He may be the world's richest man, but that didn't prevent Bill Gates from falling for an April Fool's Day joke by two Quebec radio comics pretending to be Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Montreal French-language station CKMF-FM said on Wednesday that staffers Marc-Antoine Audet and Sebastien Trudel had a 10-minute telephone chat with Microsoft Corp. boss Gates on Monday, April 1. The broadcast was aired in their nightly show on Tuesday and repeated on Wednesday.
"We were happy. We had been calling Microsoft persistently for four weeks," an ecstatic Trudel told Reuters.
Trudel said he and his colleague had already fooled Canadian pop diva Celine Dion and Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve on their show.
"We do that often," he said. "This time, we wanted to give ourselves a challenge with somebody more difficult to reach," Trudel said.
He said he was surprised that Gates's aides did not check to see if it was really the prime minister's office on the line.
Trudel said they imitated Chretien's heavily accented English, talking about the economy, insulting Microsoft's Windows operating system and inviting the multibillionaire to visit a well-known Montreal strip joint.
The radio host said that Gates, the founder of software giant Microsoft and reportedly worth more than $40 billion, was not amused by the fake interview.
"He did not seem angry but he did not find it so funny," the comic told Reuters.
April 4, 2002 8:51 am EST
MONTREAL (Reuters) - He may be the world's richest man, but that didn't prevent Bill Gates from falling for an April Fool's Day joke by two Quebec radio comics pretending to be Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Montreal French-language station CKMF-FM said on Wednesday that staffers Marc-Antoine Audet and Sebastien Trudel had a 10-minute telephone chat with Microsoft Corp. boss Gates on Monday, April 1. The broadcast was aired in their nightly show on Tuesday and repeated on Wednesday.
"We were happy. We had been calling Microsoft persistently for four weeks," an ecstatic Trudel told Reuters.
Trudel said he and his colleague had already fooled Canadian pop diva Celine Dion and Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve on their show.
"We do that often," he said. "This time, we wanted to give ourselves a challenge with somebody more difficult to reach," Trudel said.
He said he was surprised that Gates's aides did not check to see if it was really the prime minister's office on the line.
Trudel said they imitated Chretien's heavily accented English, talking about the economy, insulting Microsoft's Windows operating system and inviting the multibillionaire to visit a well-known Montreal strip joint.
The radio host said that Gates, the founder of software giant Microsoft and reportedly worth more than $40 billion, was not amused by the fake interview.
"He did not seem angry but he did not find it so funny," the comic told Reuters.
