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America's Funniest Home Videos (often simply abbreviated to AFV, previously AFHV), is an American reality television program on ABC in which viewers are able to send in humorous homemade videotapes. The most common videos usually feature slapstick physical comedy arising from accidents and mishaps. Other popular videos include humorous situations involving pets or children, while some are staged practical jokes. A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits, especially on television. ... Vin Di Bona (1944) is a television producer for many American television shows such as Americas Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight. ... Tom Bergeron (born May 6, 1955 in Haverhill, Massachusetts) is an American television personality and a popular one-time game show host, best known to the public as the host of Americas Funniest Home Videos, which he has hosted since 2001, as well as the TV game show Hollywood... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The American Broadcasting Company ( oftenly known as ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode. ... ... is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ... Television series redirects here. ... The American Broadcasting Company ( oftenly known as ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Bottom view of VHS videotape cassette with magnetic tape exposed Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. ... Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated physical violence. ... It has been suggested that Residential pets be merged into this article or section. ... A practical joke or prank is a practice intended to be humorous (usually in action, not just in words) in which another person is fooled, annoyed, or embarrassed in what the perpetrator imagines to be a mild and light-hearted fashion. ...

Synopsis

Produced by Vin Di Bona, it is currently the second longest-running entertainment program on ABC. It is based on the Tokyo Broadcasting System show Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan, which featured a segment in which viewers were invited to send in video clips from their home movies. The format has since been reproduced around the world, and AFHV-inspired TV specials and series continue to emerge periodically in the United States. Vin Di Bona (1944) is a television producer for many American television shows such as Americas Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight. ... Tokyo Broadcasting System, Incorporated ) (TYO: 9401 ) or TBS, is a television network in Tokyo, Japan. ... Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan was a popular Japanese television variety show aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System around the mid-1980s. ... Video clips are short clips in video format and predominantly found on the internet where the massive influx of new video clips during 2006 was dubbed as a new phenomenon having a profound impact on both the internet and other forms of media. ... Home Movies is a dialogue-driven animated series about 8-year-old Brendon Small (voiced by the creator, head writer, and lead musician of Home Movies Brendon Small), who makes films with his friends, Melissa and Jason, in his spare time. ...

Every week, three videos are chosen by the producers and voted on by the studio audience. The winner wins US$10,000, and is in the running for the $100,000 prize at the end of the season, while the runner-up receives $3,000, and third place banks $2,000. Very early in the show's run, the second and third prizes were a new TV and a new VCR, respectively. On the initial hour-long special, the grand prize was $5,000 with second and third places winning a new camcorder; the producer picked the winner, with no audience voting. The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...

Starting with the third season, the show featured the "Assignment America" segment; which called for a series of videos to be made pertaining to a specific theme. Also, Saget's era produced a memorable segment called "Freeze Frame" which was a montage of videos with the song "Freeze Frame" played by the J. Geils Band. The show was so successful in its first year that in 1990 it spawned a spinoff entitled America's Funniest People' The J. Geils Band was an American music group formed 1967 in Worcester, Massachusetts that had a successful blues-rock/R&B-influenced sound in the 1970s, before moving towards a more pop-influenced sound in the 1980s, which brought them MTV airplay and their 1982 international hit single Centerfold... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... Americas Funniest People was a TV show on ABC that ran from 1990 to 1994. ...

On January 26, 2007, ABC renewed America's Funniest Videos through the 2007-2008 Season, which will become the show's 18th season. is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... The American Broadcasting Company ( oftenly known as ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ...

History

Bob Saget (1989-1997)

The show debuted on November 26, 1989 (as an hour-long special produced by Vin Di Bona and Steve Paskay, later a weekly half-hour primetime series since January 14, 1990) with actor/comedian Bob Saget as host and Ernie Anderson as announcer. (Once Anderson became too ill to continue, Gary Owens took over as announcer.) Saget co-hosted the special with actress Kellie Martin. is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Robert Lane Saget (born May 17, 1956) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and game show host best known for his role as Danny Tanner in the ABC sitcom Full House from 1987 to 1995, as host of Americas Funniest Home Videos from 1989 to 1997 and as... Ernie Anderson as Ghoulardi Ernie Anderson (November 12, 1923 â€“ February 6, 1997) was an American television and radio personality, voice announcer, actor and the father of film director Paul Thomas Anderson. ... Gary Owens (born Gary Altman on May 10, 1936) is a disc jockey and voice actor born in Mitchell, South Dakota. ... Kellie Noelle Martin (born October 16, 1975) is an American television actress. ...

Audiences are opinionated about Bob Saget's work as host. The scripted introductions that he had to deliver were often rather weak, but they became so associated with Saget that some viewers found him equally unfunny and tiresome. Other viewers have recognized Bob Saget's quick-witted ad libs and his clever commentaries for the videos (he frequently did celebrity impersonations and trick voices).

Saget soon grew tired of the repetitive format and was anxious to pursue other projects as an actor and director. Producer Di Bona held him to his contract, resulting in a frustrated Saget listlessly going through the motions and making pointed remarks on the air during his last two seasons. His contract expired in 1997, and Saget left the show.

Daisy Fuentes and John Fugelsang (1998-2001)

Bob Saget left the show after eight seasons in 1997, but the show returned on January 9, 1998, with new hosts, model Daisy Fuentes and stand-up comedian John Fugelsang, as well as a completely new look. Their trademark was the "Bad-news, Good-news" segment in which they show a segment of videos (and something funny happens), and in the end, they say something good about it. The ratings for the show suffered during this period due to bad chemistry between Fuentes and Fugelsang. In 2001, they both left the show after three seasons. is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Daisy Fuentes Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is an American model who became an actress. ... John Fugelsang (born September 3, 1969, Long Island, New York) is an American actor and stand-up comedian best known for his show Junk Male on VH1. ...

Tom Bergeron (2001-present)

In 2001, the show returned again in its third format, this time with new host Tom Bergeron. Unlike Saget, who provided voiceovers to the clips, Bergeron humorously narrates them. The Bergeron version, however, added new segments, such as the feature where he puts his own face over top of faces on the videos, and the "slo-mo gizmo," where a video is played first at normal speed, and then played at a slower speed and telestrated. This version also ran for 60 minutes per episode instead of 30 minutes per episode like the previous two versions. Tom Bergeron (born May 6, 1955 in Haverhill, Massachusetts) is an American television personality and a popular one-time game show host, best known to the public as the host of Americas Funniest Home Videos, which he has hosted since 2001, as well as the TV game show Hollywood... The telestrator is a device that allows its operator to draw a freehand sketch over a motion picture image. ...

$100,000 Grand Prize

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Big winners

Theme songs

The long-running theme was "The Funny Things You Do," performed by recording artist and ABC's in-house talent, Jill Colucci. At the time of AFHV's premiere, Colucci was in the midst of preforming her vocals on the network's image campaigns, the last two years of the slogan Something's Happening (1988 and '89), and the first year only of America's Watching ABC (1990). Colucci herself occasionally made guest or cameo appearances when referred to by Saget, and even began singing the theme in person in one opening segment. "The Funny Things You Do" accompanied the opening and closing credits for eight seasons.

At the start of the 1996-97 season (the final year with Saget as host), the theme was revamped featuring new vocals, a man and woman duet. The new remix was also in a different pitch than the original. When AFHV returned in January 1998, with Fuentes & Fugelsang and a completely new look, the current arrangement of the theme song made its debut. Since that time, the theme has been an instrumental with a faster, ska/reggae beat, with the original pitch (of the 1989 version) restored, making it sound similar to "The Impression That I Get" by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.^{[citation needed]} The Impression That I Get is a song by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. ... The Mighty Mighty Bosstones were a ska-core band from Boston, Massachusetts. ...

During the Saget era, the theme song also was tied in with a skit just before the transition was made from the introduction to Saget. This usually consisted of several actors in a fake room pretending to get excited watching America's Funniest Home Videos. This technique was scrapped at the end of Season 5.

Syndication

All episodes of AFV are currently in syndication. Repeats of the show aired on TBS from 1995 to 1998. ABC Family is currently rerunning the Saget episodes from 1994-97; however, it will be replaced with the Bergeron version in October 2007. Nick at Nite began airing the Saget shows from 1989-94^{[citation needed]} starting on April 30th 2007. The Fuentes-Fugelsang and Bergeron episodes are rerunning on Superstation WGN. The Pax/i network, now known as ION, at one point aired reruns of the Saget episodes from 1989-93. Saget episodes are also shown in syndication. Until 2003, the Saget version was syndicated by 20th Television, who assumed syndication rights from their purchase of MTM Enterprises, who had syndicated the show from 1996-1998. Currently, Disney-ABC Domestic Television distributes all versions of the series. TBS also stands for Tokyo Broadcasting System, a Japanese television network. ... ABC Family is an American cable television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Superstation WGN is a Chicago-based American Superstation, owned by Tribune Broadcasting Company. ... ION Television is a broadcast and cable television network first broadcast on August 31, 1998 under the name PAX TV (early on in its development, it was called PaxNet). ... 20th Television (also referred to as Twentieth Television) is a U.S. television distribution company that was formed in 1992 by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. ... Disney-ABC Domestic Television (formerly Buena Vista Television) is the television syndication firm of Disney/ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, that was established in 1985 and handles the television distribution of product from Walt Disney Television and ABC Television Studio (formerly Touchstone Television), such as...

Trivia

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