The perpetrators of the "balloon boy" hoax, Richard and Mayumi Heene, have pled guilty in order to supposedly avoid further spectacle. Also, possibly because they are guilty of convincing America that they packed up their...

Since hoax news is all the rage, a mobile phone operator decided to give one small Latvian town a little press. How? By staging a fake meteorite impact. Balloon Boy's dad, eat your heart out.

(Ed. note: This rock is probably...

The mother of Falcon Heene has admitted the Balloon Boy saga was a hoax to make the family more marketable for their own television show. The Heene family is facing charges, but there's no word yet on what those charges might...

Here's a really interesting spot on The Countdown where Keith Olbermann tries to set Mancow up to put an end to a theory circulated by Gawker.com that Mancow's waterboarding stunt was a hoax.  Mancow is less interested in...

This mini-documentary follows the steps of a few pranksters in Morristown, New Jersey, trying to pull off a hoax of galactic proportions.  The kids released a number of balloons with flares attached to them over a period of a...

Has Phoenix really pitched his acting career to focus on writing hip-hop? Gwyneth Paltrow thinks Phoenix is pulling an elaborate joke, and his "performance" on Letterman last month is proof of that. Does this mean we're not...

Check out this awesome recap of the Marilyn Monroe sex tape hoax, compiled by Mark Bellinghaus and reviewing every step of the vicious and misguided story created by Keya Morgan in order to promote his upcoming documentary....

Phew! Turns out, it was Sanjaya all along, merely pulling our legs, courtesy of Will Ferrell and Funny or Die. Now, which is worse, a world without Sanjaya, or one with him?

She seems so endearing, so appealing, so honest. This is the first videoblog by the 16-year-old girl who became one of the most famous internet celebs of all time. Of course, now we know it was all a hoax. Her real name is...