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America's Funniest Home Videos
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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. The show is based on the Japanese show Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan (aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System).
It was announced on February 28th that AFV had been renewed for its 19th season
Synopsis
Produced by Vin Di Bona (with co-executive producers Todd Thicke and Michele Nasraway)[1], 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.
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.
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.
History
The show debuted on November 26, 1989 (as an hour-long special[2] 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, then the star of Life Goes On, which would be the lead-in show to AFHV in its early seasons.
Johnny Carson "The Tonight Show's", host of this era, made both the show and Saget, both of whom he found guilty of bad taste, regular targets of his monlogues. The jokes generally centered on something like a new title for the show, such as "Fluffy Falls into the Food Processor" hosted by Bob 'Where's My Career' Saget.
Saget soon grew tired of the repetitive format and was anxious to pursue other projects as an actor and director.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] 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, and in 2001, they both left the show after three seasons.
Tom Bergeron (2001-present)
On May 28, 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. In the 17th Season, Bergeron enters the studio in a sillouette version performing a shadow play before the sillouette screen goes up. The Bergeron version, however, added new segments, such as "Tom's Home Movies," where his face is digitally superimposed over the 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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
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. The show is based on the Japanese show Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan (aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System).
It was announced on February 28th that AFV had been renewed for its 19th season
Synopsis
Produced by Vin Di Bona (with co-executive producers Todd Thicke and Michele Nasraway)[1], 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.
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.
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.
History
The show debuted on November 26, 1989 (as an hour-long special[2] 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, then the star of Life Goes On, which would be the lead-in show to AFHV in its early seasons.
Johnny Carson "The Tonight Show's", host of this era, made both the show and Saget, both of whom he found guilty of bad taste, regular targets of his monlogues. The jokes generally centered on something like a new title for the show, such as "Fluffy Falls into the Food Processor" hosted by Bob 'Where's My Career' Saget.
Saget soon grew tired of the repetitive format and was anxious to pursue other projects as an actor and director.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] 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, and in 2001, they both left the show after three seasons.
Tom Bergeron (2001-present)
On May 28, 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. In the 17th Season, Bergeron enters the studio in a sillouette version performing a shadow play before the sillouette screen goes up. The Bergeron version, however, added new segments, such as "Tom's Home Movies," where his face is digitally superimposed over the 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.
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