Images/The_Phoenix/Life/Lifestyle_Features/insideMONKEY_BobSaget.jpg' alt='Afv Episodes With Bob Saget' title='Afv Episodes With Bob Saget' />Wipeout celebrates America with its very own amber waves of pain. The qualifier round will kick off as they conquer the Space Race, but only 6 contestants will be. Americas Funniest Home Videos is ABCs longestrunning comedy series. The show began with original host Bob Saget Full HouseThe series was an instant sensation on. Americas Funniest Home Videos Wikipedia. Americas Funniest Home Videos often simply abbreviated to AFHV or its on air abbreviation AFV is an American video clip television series 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 1. It was hosted by Bob Saget for the 1. 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 2. Tom Bergeron, who has since become the series longest serving host, hosting 1. Bergeron announced in 2. Alfonso Ribeiro took over as host in 2. Premise. 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. From 2. 00. 8 to 2. ABCs website, ABC. Americas Funniest Home Videos page on ABCs website via the show page link on the sites program menu are now automatically redirected to AFV. Videos can also be sent via conventional mail on VHS, and later as the format started to become common for home recording use in the early 2. DVD to a Hollywood, Californiapost office box address, with clips placed on USB flash drives and other forms of consumer flash memory formats also acceptable for physical submission as time has gone on. Due to its very low cost and universal appeal, the format has since been reproduced around the world and AFV inspired television specials and series continue to emerge periodically in the United States. American television series inspired by AFVs format that are not related to the series itself include The Planets Funniest Animals, The Worlds Funniest, The Worlds Funniest Moments, Funniest Pets People and It Only Hurts When I Laugh however, most of the series inspired by AFV with the minor exception of The Planets Funniest Animals have not matched the success of Americas Funniest Home Videos and have not lasted as long. Several local television stations, even those not affiliated with ABC, also developed special funny home video segments in their newscasts during the early 1. Videos typically feature people and animals getting into humorous accidents caught on camera while others include clever marriage proposals, people and animals displaying interesting talents such as pets that sound like they speak certain words or phrases, or genius toddlers with the ability to name all past U. S. Presidents, and practical jokes. A group of screeners view the submitted tapes, giving them a grade on a scale of 11. The videos deemed the funniest by the screeners then go on to the shows producers and then is turned over to Di Bona and another producer for final approval. The winner wins 1. Very early in the shows run, the second and third prizes respectively were a new TV set and VCR and a new camcorder. On the initial hour long special, the grand prize was 5,0. Periodically beginning with the Tom Bergeron run of the series and continuing on into the Alfonso Ribiero run, the grand prize winner at each seasons final 1. Adventures by Disney or Disney Vacation Club, in addition to the monetary prize. The programs studio segments are taped in front of a studio audience although the specials that aired in 1. Many of the clips have been used internationally in various comedy compilation programs, with changes such as dubbing and subtitling. The title of the show is usually changed and the studio segments are omitted. As noted in the closing credits of each episode, most of the videos have been edited for length due to time constraints. Kahin To Hoga Episode 7 Part 5. In addition, according to the contest plugs, family members both immediate or relatives of employees of Vin Di Bona Productions, ABC, Inc., its corporate parent The Walt Disney Company and their related subsidiaries are ineligible for the shows contests and prizes. On October 3, 2. 01. Many of the videos, which are largely shot using standard definition camcorders, began to be stretched horizontally to fit 1. However, since the 2. HD, the series has featured advisories to viewers to tilt their mobile devices horizontally to when recording in order for their videos to fit 1. In 2. 01. 4, all episodes of the show that were originally produced and aired in standard definition before both the season 2. HD capability simultaneously in 2. HD broadcast capability and signals on more broadcast television stations and cable networks, AFVs 2. Tom Bergerons 1. Alfonso Ribieros entrance as the current host in season 2. Phone or i. Pad and especially the videos that were aired on episodes in the Bob Saget, John Fugelsang, Daisy Fuentes, and the early Tom Bergeron eras of AFV continued and still continue in the Alfonso Ribiero run of AFV to be stretched horizontally to this day. History. Saget was assisted in hosting the special by actress Kellie Martin, then the star of fellow ABC series Life Goes On, a family drama which would serve as the lead in program to AFHV for the latter shows first four seasons. Prior to the airing of the initial special, in the fall of 1. Vin Di Bona Productions took out ads in national magazines such as TV Guide asking people to send in their home videos featuring funny or amazing moments. Charlie ODonnell who notably served as the longtime announcer of Wheel of Fortune until his death in 2. Besides hosting the series, Saget also served as a member of its writing staff, alongside Todd Thicke and Bob Arnott. The success of AFHV led to a spinoff called Americas Funniest People, hosted by Sagets Full House co star Dave Coulier and co hosted by actressproducer Arleen Sorkin for the first two seasons, then model Tawny Kitaen for the final two, focusing on videos featuring people doing celebrity impressions, committing pranks, and performing short amateur comedy routines, among other things. Eastern Time. Eastern, followed by Americas Funniest People at 7 3. Eastern as part of an hour long block of funny home videos. Another segment introduced during Sagets tenure as host called. Since the shows debut as a regular series, the show routinely includes two to three times per episode, a montage of themed videos set to a particular song, called. In season five, an animated sidekick was introduced named. In one episode in season five, he was shown on the two large TV monitors on both sides of the set and Bob had to turn him off with a remote. Stretchys catchphrase was. Eastern slot that was now left vacant. After trying out the short lived sitcom On Our Own in the 7 3. On February 1, 1. AFHV debuted called Worlds Funniest Videos. Paired with a weekly version of the popular Before They Were Stars specials on Thursday nights, Worlds Funniest Videos focused on funny and amazing home videos from around the world. For Sagets final season on AFHV, two new episodes would be shown. Numerous comedy skits were performed on the set during Sagets tenure as host. The set consisted of a living room design the main set, originally a three wall design, was remodeled for the 1. The beginning of each episode 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 usually in the upper part of the audience section or in another soundstage pretending to get excited watching Americas Funniest Home Videos. This technique was scrapped at the end of the fifth season. Saget soon grew tired of the repetitive format and was eager to pursue other projects as a comedian, actor, and director.