Funny Videos of Kids Hitting Each Other With a Bat
Am I the only person who still likes this show?
I was amazed of how many unsatisfied comments there were for AFHV. This is one of the few shows that ever got me and my family together. This is one of those special shows that bring the family together and spend some quality time. There are some very funny things that happen. I have to agree that some of the videos aren't funny. But there were plenty to make up for it. I don't like seeing things get hurt when they could be severely hurt. But what was sent in never bothered me. I still enjoy this show even though I'm grown up. And I am more mature than most other people my age. As for Bob Sagat. I don't think he's a bad host. He isn't the best, but he has a few that are funny. This is a high quality family get together show. It's better than some of the shows of today.
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It Fell On Its Own Sword
When the show first came on in 1990, it was funny, namely because of its novelty value. Home videos were still relatively rare, and there were already occasional programs depicting the occasional flubbed lines, minor accidents, etc. by professional television people. Why not expand the idea to amateurs making their videos?
And there were funny events such as minor accidents at gatherings, or while playing sports, or people who were supposed to do or say one thing but forgot or goofed, or animals or kids doing something they weren't supposed to. These things happen in real life, after all.
Of course, as the years went by and the show started offering "funniest" awards, inevitably people would send in staged "bloopers" or things that were shocking rather than humorous, or any of a number of outrageous actions in a desperate attempt to top other videos. In other words, people were trying anything to get on television to be seen by millions. Which I supposed was inevitable during the show's too-long run.
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What kind of parents do this?
I admit, I am an AFV fan. I sometimes laugh so hard I cry, and I never miss it. If you like slapstick humor, this is very funny. But some of the clips sent in make me think- "What kind of a parent does this?"
For example, one clip was of a kid climbing a high tree and then falling down. In the background you hear the mother laughing. Shouldn't she be running over to see if her kid was okay? I would. Be concerned, don't show it to millions of viewers.
And some things are very unrealistic. For example, one clip was of a kid eating a sandwich in his kitchen, and then the dog jumped up and bit into it. Funny, but who really tapes their kid eating a sandwich? It looks planned to me. But who am I to say.
Another clip was of a 10-12 year old child picking their nose. Good for a laugh, but what kind of a parent embarrasses their child like that? It's all in good fun, but could you imagine millions of people watching you? All for a laugh?
Don't get me wrong- I like the show. It's one of my favorites. I just think that some of the clips aren't funny, or are mean.
7/10.
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used to be funny but now in poor taste
In the 90s I would have given AFV 10 stars. It was novel and personal camcorders were the rage; the few who could afford the price tag were happy to send in footage caught mostly by accident that tickled or surprised us. The whole family anticipated the new show. But here in 2020, despite Alfonso being my fav host (and despite the fact that there must be tons more content to choose from), the clips are often in very poor taste, last too long, or are just plain mean. This once-revered "family" show should reevaluate its family-friendly rating when it seems to now be more of a "how to" on tricking family and friends and setting up children as the innocent victims of inappropriate humor. When AFV started suggesting things to film, the audience then had to suffer through a barrage of set-up scenes performing the same tired stunt, many of which were only funny to the person filming. In addition to the finalists never being what I consider the best clips, I am completely disenchanted with this series. AFV needs to revamp its show and use the unusual videos caught by sheer luck or of adult stunts gone wrong that made them a household name. Clips should be clean, accidental, brief, and with no intentional victims. When you realize it is now the only show of its kind that solicits audience participation in creating videos, you have to ask yourself why other shows clearly discourage that: It's because people will do outrageous, dangerous, vicious, and immoral things to get on television. Instead, other similar shows scour the internet and other professional sources for footage that was caught on film. That was the original premise behind AFV -- mostly harmless, sometimes shocking, often funny footage taken without staging. That's the missing ingredient in today's AFV: innocence.
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A laugh riot!
This was TV's first true "reality show," and boy, was it a doozy! It must have been a revolutionary concept at the time; but now, twelve years later, it's become lodged in our cultural consciousness.
But enough content analysis. This show was great! Where else could people win thousands of dollars for sharing their embarrassing moments with the entire country? And host Bob Saget was the icing on the cake. The video clips just wouldn't have been as funny without his zany voiceovers, in which he imitated everybody from Jerry Lewis to Sylvester Stallone. We usually saw him as "straight man" Danny Tanner on "Full House," so it was cool to see him be goofy for a change.
Many people have condemned this show for being mean-spirited and exploitative. That is a very unfair accusation. Obviously the producers at ABC got permission to use the tapes sent in by the people in them, and you could tell from the audience's reaction that it was always in good fun. And if you can't laugh at yourself getting whacked in the crotch by a golf club, how are you supposed to laugh at the antics of the Three Stooges or Itchy and Scratchy?
Kudos to this show, which proved once and for all that real life could be more hilarious than any Hollywood comedy. I just wish that Bob hadn't turned the reins over to Daisy Fuentes and John Fugelsang.
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Capture something on camera and insult everybody
No matter who hosted this, the show sucked.
It was so unfunny that I almost had to drop my pants while I was running to the bathroom because my cat scratched my eyes out while my kid was throwing up all over the couch.
My wife was burning the chicken in the oven, while the dog ran through our wedding cake and everybody fell into the pool wearing their underwear as they were carrying bags of grocery's where the bottoms fell apart and eggs fell out on the sidewalk and broke.
The mailman slipped on the eggs while he was delivering a pizza covered in melting chocolate and crashed into the paperboy riding his bike, pushing him into the oncoming bus.
We have it all on tape with some horrible music as well - Yeah...we have to be told now what is funny by a go no-where family sitcom has been who never was and then we have to see the same videos replayed 3 or 4 times in repeat in case we didn't see the little baby fall into the sewer the first time.
It's a horrible TV show what should have never been made or even thought of...and to have numerous spin-offs and shows with different hosts is an insult to humans.
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Some good, some bad, but always interesting.
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Like it or not, there is some degree of "voyerism" in all of us. There is something about being able to sit at home in from of our TV, safe and sound, and watch others making a fool of themselves. Sometimes I wonder if the person making the "home video" in the first place was intending to tape something outrageous, just to try to get his on the show. I suspect there are. However, most of them appear to be genuinely taped during the normal course of family events -- a wedding, a funeral, a birthday, a trip to the zoo, an outing at the beach -- and sheerly by stroke of luck, something very funny ends up on videotape. Sometimes we just muse over the utterly stupid things some people do!
I can't claim to be a faithful watcher of this program. I have never planned and set aside time to watch it, but have happened upon it many times while "channel surfing." When I get to this program, it always "hooks" me.
Cute show!!
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Legitimately funny videos meet extremely stupid staff
10/10 for funny videos. 0/10 for picking the winners. The show is decent (with the exception of Bergeron) up until the last five minutes when they pick the three nominees for the prize. The three they pick are the three dumbest, lamest, most unfunny videos in the entire show. Kids, babies, and dogs are apparently the only things that are funny on this show, and every other video is irrelevant.
Screw you, AFV producers and staff. Tom Bergeron, that includes you. What garbage you have made out of what used to be funny. I can't believe that this show gets high enough ratings to stay on the air for 20+ seasons. But, I suppose the standard has been set so low nowadays, it doesn't take much. I will always (regrettably) remember the episode where the winning clip was a baby sucking a spaghetti noodle up its nose. Good lord, what has this country come to to think that is actually funny? Won't be watching this show anymore.
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Ugh to the whole thing, I say
America's Funniest Home Videos has a perfectly ironic title. See, you tune in expecting comedy, and walk away gagging yourself with a pointy stick. It's patently ridiculous how unfunny the original series was, and yet it drew millions of viewers each week. And I ask every single one of those people, "WHY?" Bob Saget has to be the dorkiest man on the face of this planet, and yet people would laugh hysterically at all of his inane, obvious jokes. South Park definitely pinned him and this show down in one of their best episodes, bashing every element from Bob's cornball one-liners to the audience's rib busting reactions. I just don't know how people could watch footage of a man getting gruesomely injured by a household appliance/hyperactive child with a plastic bat/wooden plank and be amused to the point of joyful tears. And don't even mention the new incarnations of AFHV. The guy who hosts this version (who I'm pretty sure hosts the God-awful Hollywood Squares at the same time), is even more comedically challenged then Bob. Who writes his jokes, anyway, deranged orangutangs with a grudge against the sane portion of humanity??? And I'm sorry, but it's obvious that some of these videos, if not all of them, are staged. That leads me to this query: "How desperate for money do you have to be to set-up an insanely painful 'accident' for yourself or your family members and then videotape it for millions to see?" NO ONE should be rewarded for catching their idiot husband/wife/crazy drunk uncle getting their groins whacked or hit by a car. It's not funny. Period! These people should just be smacked, in my opinion. Cancel this show immediately, please, because it's definitely worn out it's welcome. .5/4 stars
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Not impressed with the selected videos for winner.
I'm not sure how they pick the three finalist at the end. But the other clips were wayyyyy more funnier. I've never posted a video there but every single time I've watched this show growing up with every single different host it doesnt matter, the top finalist shouldn't be there. There were way funnier videos I've seen that actually made me laugh. The ones at the end didnt even make me laugh. The ones that make you laugh should be the finalists. And also should be a draw from the audience not the producers or whom ever.
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tom beregon is a better host
bob saget sucked!. i think 45 min of each show he hosted was all him talking and the other 15 min: videos tom bergeron is funny. he doesn't do "bad news good news" he did on 2 of the shows he hosted. he does the slowmo gizmo which is funny. he also does the "head, gut or groan" bit where people tried to guess where the person in the video will be hit. and the VS. bit. he does a lot more in his showings of it then the other hosts did. he does videos with his head. Im so glad they stopped showing the afv with bob saget and the other 2 hosts. although today on TV they show reruns Maybe 1990's is where all the famous people hosted shows terribly because today its better
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America's least funny TV show.
I used to like watching this show, when I was a mindless little tyke. Now that I am much older, I caught this on a TV rerun and thought to myself, "Is this supposed to be funny?". The videos that were sent in were funny, although much of them look as if they were staged. What made them unfunny and unentertaining was the gratuitous use of Bob Saget's voiceovers and music. I had to mute the TV to find the videos funny. My brothers and sisters never liked the show. Now that I am old enough, it's hard not to see why.
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Before YouTube...
For all you youngins out there, AFHV was our YouTube, our Vine, our 9Gag, our TikTok, etc. Before everyone had a camera in their pocket, there was the Camcorder. It went through many iterations before it became user friendly. I remember having to carry a camera on one shoulder and a VCR on the other when I had to help my dad do videoing jobs. Eventually, the video recorder got to be a handheld device and enough people had them that AFHV was born.
Bob Sagat was the show's first host and boy were his jokes and puns terrible. Little did I know that the audience was instructed to laugh, because I was thinking, "How do they find this funny?" But the videos were funny.
I don't know what the format is now, but then the people who submitted a video had the chance to win $10,000. It was a great ploy to get people to make and submit videos. Now, all the funny content is online and people upload them for likes.
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A lot of AFV is funny, even after all these years.
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We haven't seen AFV four maybe five years, but there was nothing else on.... And so I really enjoyed laughing out loud with some of the videos. The only thing I didn't like was that some of the videos might have been at the expense of some of the animals. It seemed better than AFV of old where the comedy was at the expense of the animals unless at least, wandering animal was okay instead of laughing. When you see a dog knock a baby goat down have to wonder if the baby was okay. So I don't like that. It's not like the goat had a choice Surface Pro. And it's not like it was an accident because there's obviously choreographed. But everything else that we saw was funny and came at a really good time for me, and I think we'll be giving AFV another chance!
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Still on ? !
I loved watching AFV for all of the Bob Saget & most of the Tom Bergeron years but finally gave up on when countless "cute kid" clips won instead of the actual funny ones. It's America's FUNNIEST Home Videos, not America's Cutest Kid videos !! There were times when I found myself yelling @ the TV while they giving the results !!
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Alfonso is a DUD
Not funny in his delivery of his lines, tiresome to watch him read the TelePrompTer. Needs to be replaced by someone who has more acting abilities, skill, and believability, then I'd consider giving this show more stars.
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Still On...
This show is still on and going strong and by strong I mean they somehow haven't run out of videos of guys getting hit in the groin by their kids with plastic wiffle ball bats yet. And we never will because now everyone tapes everything so every time one of these "accidents" happens, and I put that in quotes because a lot of the time on this show it seems pretty obvious that people are deliberately doing stupid things just to try to get on the show and to hopefully win the thousands of dollars prize money. I used to like this show as a kid but now I can't stand it because it's just the same stuff week after week, and Tom Bergeron is the unfunniest hack in the world, he somehow manages to make Bob Saget look fantastic.
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AFV always makes me laugh to this day
I love America's Funniest Home Videos! I can't believe that it's been 30 years since this show debuted in 1989. Bob Saget will always be the king of AFV comedy. Daisy and John were ok. Tom was almost like Saget. Now Alfonso is doing a good job hosting the show. My favorite funniest videos are scaring pranks, people falling down and basketball trick shots.
AFV FOREVER!
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Not so funny at all
The idea of this series was very sweet during the time of home videos, when the world wasn't constantly being plastered with people's private videos on social networks. All this nonsense is actually just something that gets on your nerves. Every now and then it's ok and, as I said, there used to be a sense of entertainment behind it, but nowadays it's all just another annoying contribution in an annoying media world.
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America embarrasses itself through staged, unfunny skits
Early on this stuff was actually real, but then people started realizing that in order to get on television, all they had to do was pretend to hit their heads or have their children smack them in the crotch, and it guaranteed fifteen minutes of fame.
Watch as Daddy gets struck in the lower regions by Junior and Bob Saget screams from off-camera, "That musta hurt him!" Watch Bob Saget try to be funny and watch him fail. Again. How did he even get a start on TV? The only thing he's ever done that made me laugh was his "cameo" in DUMB AND DUMBERER, because he swore a lot, and as we all know, Bob Saget is the clean host of this clean show, so to see him swear is automatically humorous.
Some of this show's early, genuine stuff is funny - the staged stuff is no better than a poorly performed, amateurish skit.
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I don't like this show anymore.
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I used to love watching America's Funniest Home Videos until a few months ago. In February of this year, I realized how stupid this show really is. All I saw was people getting hurt, doing gross things, kids who throw tantrums and scream bloody murder when they don't get their way, and cruelty to animals. Ha-ha; Too funny. NOT. I'll never go back to watching AFV and wasting my time again. My mom and the rest of my family members have watched it since it first premiered and I think they are the only people who still like it. Whenever I trip or fall down, my brother always laughs at me. I think he learned to do it because of AFV. This show needs to go off the air for good-enough is enough. Whenever this show is on, I make myself go outside or to another room.
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It's all FRICKIN' FUN AND GAMES, until they announce the winner
OK, let's be real here people. We all had those days were we come home from Applebee's, turn on the TV, break out the happy snacks, and BINGE WATCH A BUNCH OF IDIOTS DOING CRAP ON AMERICA'S STUPIDEST HOME VIDEOS..... Or is that just me? Either way, THAT'S NOT THE POINT.
When it comes to American TV shows, AFV is your usual, standard, ordinary, customary, conventional, habitual, accustomed, expected, wonted, typical, stock, common, everyday, regular, routine, established, set, fixed, traditional, time-honored American show. But is this a bad thing? Well, technically not. In fact, I've gotten a few good laughs from this show. Plus, I find the entire concept of people submitting their idiotic home videos to be aired on national TV for a chance to win a good amount of cash pretty cool.
Yeah, that's great. But why the BALLS did I give AFV a 5/10? It's when they announce the FRICKIN' winner. WHY does the WINNER have to be some RANDOM BABY or some RANDOM KID under 10 YEARS OLD? WHAT THE FART PEOPLE? Whenever AFV airs a video that focuses on a baby or some kid under 10 years old, 95% of the time it's not funny, IT'S JUST RETARDED. YOU SHOULDN'T BE GIVING MONEY TO THESE PEOPLE.
And the worst part would be the fact that AFV is FULL OF THESE KINDS OF VIDEOS. Nobody wants to see your FRICKIN' baby or your FRICKIN' kid do CRAP. We want to see people who are 18 and over do POINTLESS (yet humorous) STUNTS that result in DESTRUCTION or EVEN PET VIDEOS. Yeah, I guess PET VIDEOS ARE GOOD TOO.
I give this a FRICKIN' 5/10. I HATE KIDS.
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America's stupid home videos.
Think before you laugh. When it comes to comedy the only though people have is laughter is very best m.e.d.i.s.o.n. I do not like slap stick hummer. I do not think it is funny to watch actors pretend to get hurt. I try to tolerate other people laughing at it. But at some point you just go to far. These are real people getting hurt. This is very sick when stop and think about. Some people are uptight about movies with people getting killed that have a lot of blood. And they are not real. L.u.k.a M.a.g.o.t.t.a filmed his murder and people gave him money to see it. Maybe it happened to some they did not know. Thats the excuse right. This is really sick. This is so mean n.a.t.u.r.e.d.
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Only surviving because the producers are PAYING to keep it on. MTM should have said "No!" to syndicating the reruns!
I agree with everybody else who said they DESPISE this sorry program. I certainly CAN'T stand Bob Saget ("Full House" also stunk), and Tom Bergeron isn't any better. And one critic was right on when he said this show is "just an excuse for people to make asses of themselves to win money" (I have a better title for it: "The Hour for the Artistically Challenged and Money-Hungry"). Simply put, this show is an insult to one's intelligence!
I think the only reason "America's Funniest Home Videos" is still surviving is because the producers are PAYING ABC to keep the show on. But, if it's any consolation, the network has pitted it against "60 Minutes" on CBS Sunday nights at 7:00 P.M. Eastern time, so here's hoping "60 Minutes" continues to trounce "America's Funniest Home Videos'" ass in the ratings!
Equally surprising was that when "America's Funniest Home Videos" was first syndicated in 1996 (a BIG mistake), the producers tapped MTM Enterprises, which former Chicago Sun-Times TV critic and nationally syndicated columnist Gary Deeb called "the class act of television," to distribute the reruns. Certainly, MTM had much better, and more intelligent, shows during its 28-year history, such as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Rhoda," "WKRP in Cincinnati," and "Hill Street Blues." I am VERY certain the only reason why MTM said yes to distributing the reruns of "America's Funniest Home Videos" is because they knew they were then flirting with bankruptcy, and since their other quality shows were failing, they were desperate to stay alive! Since Mary Tyler Moore was at that time still the Chairwoman of the Board of MTM, she herself should have told the producers of "America's Funniest Home Videos" "NO!" to syndicating this show, and to go find another distributor! (MTM was dropped as an affiliated company by the Television South Corporation, better known as TVS, of London, England, near the end of 1995 after seven years - the result of poor management of the property on TVS' part - but was rescued in early 1996 by International Family Entertainment, Inc., a company spun off from the Christian Broadcasting Network. Two years later, however, IFE itself was purchased by 21st Century Fox, Inc. (formerly NewsCorp), parent company of 20th Century Fox; that buyout, sadly, meant the end of MTM as it was absorbed into 20th Century Fox Television. Now Fox syndicates the reruns of "America's Funniest Home Videos;" this program, in all honesty, seems more appropriate for a company like Fox to distribute, but if Rupert Murdoch and Co. were smart, they SHOULDN'T pay any more residuals to the untalented and brainless turkeys who submitted the "material" to this waste of time!)
Here's also hoping ABC wises up after 16 years and drops "America's Funniest Home Videos" for good. I sure WOULDN'T miss it if and when it goes away!
(Postscript, September 21, 2019: When the FCC rescinded the 1971 "fin-syn" rule in late 1998 which stated that networks couldn't syndicate the shows they produced themselves, Disney/ABC broke off their distribution ties with Fox and assumed syndication of "America's Funniest Home Videos" (although, ironically, the film division of Fox is now owned by Disney).
Disney/ABC can *HAVE* those syndication rights!)
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Some are funniest, others not so much.
This is a funny TV-series that is a collection of home movies taken by everyday people around the country. Families submit their home videos to the ABC network and winners get first and second place monetary prizes toward the end of each episode.
From embarrassing sports moments to wedding ceremony mishaps, and from comical physical oopsies to funny pet moments, this series will send you some side-splitting laughs.
Earlier seasons were the funniest, as you could tell much of the home videos were genuine and the "mishaps" were candid. Later seasons featured a lot of videos that were obviously "staged" by people to make their mishaps look funny in order to get themselves onto the show. One video I distinctly remember was this guy getting hit in the eye by a ping-pong ball during a table tennis match, flinching a bit afterward, and then forcing himself onto the floor in an unremarkable attempt to be funny.
Overall, some good laughs here. But of course, laugh at the genuine and funnily candid home videos versus the outrageously staged ones.
Grade B
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