The first of April, the day of the year everyone go on needles and wondering who will fool you today. Every year at least the mass media try to create an inventive, or less inventive news about something that may became a topic that everyone talks about. Sometimes an April joke becomes a classic one and something that will be remembered a long time after. Therefore, this study will contain a qualitative text analysis on the famous Swedish April joke from 1962, which was about to pull over a nylon stocking over the television to create color TV. A classic, that even the younger generation knows about and is the second-best April joke in the world. We, in this study group belongs to the younger generation which has become a challenge to analyze this April joke which is 56 years old and were before our time. That's why the context of the 60’s has been an important part of this study to have an opportunity to get in to that situation and understand the context. This study is going to analyze which rhetorical means in conjunction with the context that has affected this April joke in the way it did, and with help of rhetorical analysis, study how the theory was used and had an impact on the successful joke. The rhetorical analysis will mainly focus on the arguments used in the April joke, and also the visual language such as body language and the way of talking. The study will make observations in the context, how society and the population looked up to the media and its responsibility for the people. A central part of the context will be the new media, television, that quickly developed during the current decade. Public service with power over the television gave together an important position and a big part in the April joke’s significant context. Our analysis shows good reasons to believe that rhetoric and its arguments are a prerequisite for succeeding in reaching such type of message, and that the position of public service and television at that time had a major role in how April jokes became a general topic and perhaps gave color TV a chance earlier than was meant in Sweden. All those elements together will prove to be a major part of the successful April joke, and through our analyze we find the answer to our question. Discussion and conclusion explain the positive and negative aspects of the analysis and what it has come to, and put it in relation to the context. The study presents interesting topics and suggestions on future research that have emerged after the work has been completed.