I pity the fool

I don’t get it. What are adults doing being all up into April Fools Day? Given, I never really got it as a child either...
Is it that we are desperately in need of any lame holiday because our “normal” American life is so F’in’ drab and excruciatingly, deadly dull?
Of course this is from someone who thinks “Talk like a pirate day” is awesome.