April fools day 
Well, we pulled off a pretty good April Fool's Day prank when I "pulled off" my hair and revealed nothing but scalp. Yes, it was a joke, despite the fact that it looked so real. First, a very talented guy named Bob Kretschmer (he's worked on all kinds of movies, including Pirates of the Caribbean) made a wig to match my hair. Then a make-up artist covered my real hair with a so-called "bald cap". I asked Vanna not to come into the make-up room while all this was going on. She knew about the gag, but I didn't want her to see the results so she would act genuinely surprised by how realistic everything looked. Sure enough, when she removed the hairpiece on the air, her reaction was terrific.
That was our first April Fool's trick since Alex Trebek and I switched places a few years ago. I don't know what we might be able to do next year to top this one, but I'll start working on some ideas. By the way, after the taping, I found out that there's nothing as useless as owning a wig of your own hair. Well, maybe if I wait long enough, it'll come in handy.
