America's Funniest Home Videos | |
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Genre | Game Show |
Created by | Vin Di Bona |
Based on | Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan |
Written by |
Past writers:
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Directed by | Vin Di Bona (2002–present)
Other directors:
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Presented by |
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Narrated by |
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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) |
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Executive producer(s) |
Co-exec. producers:
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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 |
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Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Picture format |
720p (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) (home videos upscaled to widescreen) |
Original release | November 26, 1989 January 14, 1990 (as a series) – present |
(as a special)
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.