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America's Funniest Home Videos

America's Funniest Home Videos
AFHV Main Logo.jpg
Genre Game Show
Created by Vin Di Bona
Based on Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan
Written by
  • Mike Palleschi (2001–)
  • Erik Lohla (2007–)
  • Jordan Schatz (2010–)

Directed by Vin Di Bona (2002–present)
Presented by
Narrated by
Theme music composer Dan Slider (music)
Jill Colucci, Stewart Harris (lyrics, 1989–97 version only)
Opening theme "The Funny Things You Do", performed by Jill Colucci (1989–96),
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 27
No. of episodes 600 (as of January 15, 2017)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Vin Di Bona
  • Michele Nasraway (2013–)
  • Todd Thicke (2013–15)
Producer(s) Bill Barlow
Camera setup Videotape; Multi-camera
(studio segments)
Running time 22 minutes (1990–99)
44 minutes (1989 and 1999–2000 specials; series: 2001–present)
Production company(s) ABC Entertainment
Vin Di Bona Productions
Distributor
Release
Original network ABC
Picture format 720p (HDTV)
480i (SDTV)
(home videos upscaled to widescreen)
Original release November 26, 1989 (1989-11-26) (as a special)
January 14, 1990 (1990-01-14) (as a series) – present
Chronology
Related shows America's Funniest People (1990–94)
The Planet's Funniest Animals (1999-2008)
World's Funniest Videos (1996)
External links
Website
Production website

America's Funniest Home Videos (often simply abbreviated to AFHV or its on-air abbreviation AFV) is an American game show on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), which features humorous homemade videos that are submitted by viewers. The most common videos feature unintentional physical comedy (arising from incidents, accidents, and mishaps), pets or children, and some staged practical jokes.

Originally airing as a special in 1989, it debuted as a regular weekly series in 1990. It was hosted by Bob Saget for the 1989 special and the first eight seasons of the series incarnation, then by John Fugelsang and Daisy Fuentes for its ninth and tenth seasons. After two years of being shown as occasional specials, hosted by various actors and comedians such as D.L. Hughley and Richard Kind, ABC brought the series back on Friday nights in the summer of 2001 with new host Tom Bergeron, who has since become the series' longest-serving host, hosting 15 seasons. Bergeron announced in 2014 that he would be departing as host of the show, and Alfonso Ribeiro took over as host in 2015.

Executive produced by Vin Di Bona, Todd Thicke and Michele Nasraway, and created by Vin Di Bona, it is the longest-running primetime network TV game show in Television History, surpassing "What's My Line?" in 2008, and also the longest-runnimg primetime entertainment program on ABC (both on the network's current schedule and dating back to ABC's incorporation as a television network in 1948). It is based on the Tokyo Broadcasting System program 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; ABC, which owns half of the program, pays a royalty fee to the Tokyo Broadcasting System for the use of the format. A more similar concept in that a whole 30-to-45-minute show consisted of nothing but short clips from amateur home videos with slapstick-like accidents presented by a host began broadcasting only two months after the start of Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan in Japan, under the title (lit., "Crashes, bad luck, and slip ups") in Germany in March 1986, that program lasted until 2003.


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