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LeVar Burton Buys Smosh - April Fool's!

On April 1st, 2009, Smosh and actor LeVar Burton from Star Trek, Roots and Reading Rainbow executed what may go down as the most daring April Fool's joke in the history of the Internets. Check out what the changes were!

If you haven't seen it yet, watch the announcement video on LeVar's purchase of Smosh:

For all the details, read the Official Press Release.

At midnight on April 1st, we switched over all of Smosh.com so it was "LeVar Burtonized." Here's a snapshot of what the homepage looked like:

We also had special "Coming Soon" videos featured on the homepage. Click on the images to see each video's own page:

We even changed the Twitter widget so it would update off @LeVarBurton!

Finally, we created the April Fool's Page that let you know you'd been Burtonized! Click on LeVar to see it:



Thanks to everyone who visited Smosh.com on April 1st and made April Fool's Day 2009 a success!