
Kids and pets are often featured in the videos.īob Saget was one of television's most popular stars when he began hosting America's Funniest Home Videos. Most of the entries on America's Funniest Home Videos are of people getting practical jokes played on them, dangerous accidents, and funny staged situations.

ABC referred to it as the even shorter "AFV". More than 250,000 votes came in during the first episode of America's Funniest Home Videos!ĭue to the length of this series' name it's often referred to by the entertainment industry by the acronym "AFHV". Viewers at home loved the fact that they could participate in the program by calling a "900 number" on their telephone and vote for the video they though was the best. It got such high ratings that ABC decided to bring it back in January of 1990 as a series!ĭuring the 1999-2000 season, ABC stopped airing AFHV as a weekly show but still aired some specials hosted by different ABC sitcom stars including Richard Kind of " Spin City" and D.L. The second and third best videos on America's Funniest Home Videos receive monetary prizes each week.Īmerica's Funniest Home Videos was originally intended as a one time TV special that aired in November of 1989.

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The series is based on a Japanese TV series called, "Fun TV". The studio audience and viewers at home would then vote for their favorite and the video with the most votes would win $10,000 for its owners and make them eligible for the $100,000 season end grand prize! Fans sent in their own hiarious home videos and some of them would be shown on each episode. The America's Funniest Home Videos TV show is a comedy series on ABC that began as a 30 minute show and then expanded to 60 minutes after five years on the air.
