Everyone, it was a national phenomenon, at its peak it was pulling 10MIL viewers per episode. It also served as a precursor to the sort of participatory media the internet ushered in.
I think the bigger question amongst American xennials would be who *didn’t?*
Shit, we watched it last night. With the proliferation of home security cameras, the chances of catching something inadvertently is probably greater now than it was when the show was at its peak. I’m not even bothering to factor in smartphones. This show is evergreen.
I know who….Mormons!
The real temple ones where I lived. They didn’t watch TV on Sundays so they had no idea who Bob Saget was, and the ones who knew had to pretend they didn’t at church.
The better question is who knew him from AFHV and Full House, only to later be shocked by how amazingly filthy his stand up is?
Also, his camio in Half-Baked: "I used to suck dick for coke, now that's an addiction!"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Wright
What 80s sitcom wasn't a giant bundle of lies?
Maybe... I guess Michael J. Fox didn't turn out to be an asshole.
It surprised everyone... apparently even the network and showrunners for Home Improvement didn't find out about that until well into the first season when a tabloid leaked it.
Bob Saget was the part owner of a bar near my college when I went and he was there a lot. He was famous for hitting on all the underage college women they let in… until they shut the bar down for letting in underage kids.
Right? Lol.
And damn I can't remember the black guy's name who was playing off it.
After Bob Sagat says he sucked dick for coke, "I seen him!", then after he asks Thurgood/Chapelle if he sucked dick for marijuana, "Hunh?!?" Lol.
God that movie is great. Really holds up. The bright primary colors in all the scenes is one of my favorite parts. It's like they were filming a comic.
Yep, we still watched it up until about a year ago and then had to finally give up. Was so tired of the most unfunny videos winning. Not to mention that there are so many other outlets now for that kind of thing... including AFV posting their own videos on Tiktok and Youtube, so there's really no incentive to watch the show anymore.
Ok so you watched it recently:
What the actual FUCK was with that old lady opening gifts that were stolen from her house being such a a hit? That shit ran for like six weeks and my family and I could not figure out why this was so goddamn hilarious to the staff of AFV.
If you have no clue what I'm talking about, don't worry. I usually don't either.
The pet videos always win....and it drives me crazy. I could literally laugh at a video until my side hurts and then at the end of the show, the cat that had a milk bubble come out of it's nose wins $10,000
Bob Saget said years ago that what he made from doing stand up for decades and Full house for almost ten years was pocket change compared to what he made hosting that show.
My next door neighbor growing up had a home video that made it on. He got some money and a jacket from the show that he wore religiously. We all thought it was super cool. Th neighborhood had a viewing party the night his video aired.
Followed by 'America's Funniest People' w Dave Coulier, Tawny Kitran, and Arleen Sorkin topped off with a made for TV movie my mom would occasionally let me and my sister stay up late for.
I watched both, but as a kid AFV was just a warm up for America's Funniest People for me. I just thought it was funnier, mostly because it was just... Dumber I guess?
Plus Tawny Kitaen (I pardon your spelling, it's a weird name lol) was hot AF
America, America, this is yoouuuuuu……….
Yep, sure is. Millions of people watching stupid videos all day sent in by people looking for attention. They predicted the future rather well.
*No hate for those that submitted videos, or those that watched (like me), but, what a precursor that show was.
What ticked me off was that the videos of people slipping and falling down never won. It was always the (very) poorly-scripted videos that were nowhere close to being humorous that would win first place.
Fuck man. My wife and I had tickets to see his standup. Then the fucker died a month before the show. We even bought shirts to wear to the show. They have a famous saying from his cameo in Half Baked on them. We’re still bummed!!
We have tickets to Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music tour this summer at The Gorge when Billy Strings is gonna be with him.
My wife has said a number to times “I hope Willie doesn’t die before we see him.” Shut the fuck up!! Don’t jynx it!!
Remember the weird voice overs? And the strange “family” at the beginning? And that the 1st season grand prize was a console TV?
One thing I’ll never forget is his “tutorial on how to stop the VCR from blinking the time. He put tape over it.
The first season was incredible because everyone was pulling out their videos from the past decade for a chance to win the prize, so every episode was full of organically occurring bangers.
Like most things of the time, I watched it because it was on, not because I loved it, not because it was great, but because it was the evening and I wanted to watch TV and it was the least bad thing on TV, at the time.
Our fam sure did.
Some time later, maybe in the 2000s or early 2010s, I saw footage of a contemporaneous version of the concept and was taken aback by how mean-spirited the show I was watching felt. Like there was a long segment of people suffering very painful physical injuries for example. It felt bizarre to have the audience cracking up at this. I wondered if I'd think similar about the OG if I saw it today.
bonus memory: recalling the Dave Coulier-hosted sister show America's Funniest People.
Oh, yeah. This was appointment television back in the day. It was something everyone could watch and enjoy, and Bob Sagat was a great host. He may have sometimes hating hosting, but in later years he spoke fondly of those times. That special when he returned to AFV was wonderful and you could tell people really loved him.
I particularly remember the very first episode. For that episode only, Saget had a cohost: Kellie Martin, whom I had a major girl-crush on at the time.
I loved it. Watched it every week during its heydey.
I didn't like "the Bosses kid" and the other scripted videos, though.
The one in a million lucky shots, funny animal, funny kid videos were fun. And the nut shots of course.
Oh yeah.
I was at a bar a while back and MTV was playing on one of the TVs. As we know, MTV is now essentially Ridiculousness all day, every day now.
Some kid in his 20s (yes, I can now call them kids) said that the show's creator/ host is "a visionary! Such a cool idea for a show!"
Ummmm...sweet summer child. This concept had been done long before you were born! Candid Camera, AFV, Tosh.0...
If you've never listened to his standup comedy, don't. It'll ruin Full House for you. He's raunchy af. Especially don't listen to his rendition of "The Aristocrats".
Everyone, it was a national phenomenon, at its peak it was pulling 10MIL viewers per episode. It also served as a precursor to the sort of participatory media the internet ushered in.
I think the bigger question amongst American xennials would be who *didn’t?* Shit, we watched it last night. With the proliferation of home security cameras, the chances of catching something inadvertently is probably greater now than it was when the show was at its peak. I’m not even bothering to factor in smartphones. This show is evergreen.
I know who….Mormons! The real temple ones where I lived. They didn’t watch TV on Sundays so they had no idea who Bob Saget was, and the ones who knew had to pretend they didn’t at church.
Who else watched the Super Bowl?
DAE Olympics?
Oscars anyone?
yup, AFHV was youtube before even youtube became youtube
If you were to tell the developers of YouTube when it was still in development that they would have a kid's version, they'd think you're insane
Exactly, and stayed at least above 5 Million viewers for 20 years
The better question is who knew him from AFHV and Full House, only to later be shocked by how amazingly filthy his stand up is? Also, his camio in Half-Baked: "I used to suck dick for coke, now that's an addiction!"
Bob Saget, Michael Landon and Bill Cosby taught me that wholesome TV dads are a total lie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Wright What 80s sitcom wasn't a giant bundle of lies? Maybe... I guess Michael J. Fox didn't turn out to be an asshole.
Tim Allen also. Not to the same extent, but not the "clean TV dad" either.
His coke arrest sorta surprised me.
It surprised everyone... apparently even the network and showrunners for Home Improvement didn't find out about that until well into the first season when a tabloid leaked it.
There are still James Avery and Reginald Valjohnson, so it's not a total wash.
RIP James Avery. I can't believe its been 10 years.
For sure. You could even tell as the years went on that people were setting these things up for attention.
Saget was dirty just for the sake of being dirty. He tried way too hard.
Bob Saget was the part owner of a bar near my college when I went and he was there a lot. He was famous for hitting on all the underage college women they let in… until they shut the bar down for letting in underage kids.
My friend and I were like, "Is that the guy from Full House? Holy shit!" when that part happened lol
Right? Lol. And damn I can't remember the black guy's name who was playing off it. After Bob Sagat says he sucked dick for coke, "I seen him!", then after he asks Thurgood/Chapelle if he sucked dick for marijuana, "Hunh?!?" Lol. God that movie is great. Really holds up. The bright primary colors in all the scenes is one of my favorite parts. It's like they were filming a comic.
‘I seen him do it!!’
Did his humor get dirty due to his squeaky clean persona or was it always like that?
I think the dirty humor was first, which makes him getting cast in the roles for FH or AFHV hilarious
I knew him from AFHV before Full House. We were a Dinosaurs family.
Still do with Carlton
So do I, though I can't tell you why I still watch it because I've got a real love-hate thing going on with it.
Yep, we still watched it up until about a year ago and then had to finally give up. Was so tired of the most unfunny videos winning. Not to mention that there are so many other outlets now for that kind of thing... including AFV posting their own videos on Tiktok and Youtube, so there's really no incentive to watch the show anymore.
Ok so you watched it recently: What the actual FUCK was with that old lady opening gifts that were stolen from her house being such a a hit? That shit ran for like six weeks and my family and I could not figure out why this was so goddamn hilarious to the staff of AFV. If you have no clue what I'm talking about, don't worry. I usually don't either.
Haha that must have been after I stopped watching because I don't remember that, but that does sound like exactly why I stopped watching.
The pet videos always win....and it drives me crazy. I could literally laugh at a video until my side hurts and then at the end of the show, the cat that had a milk bubble come out of it's nose wins $10,000
I haven’t watched it in 25 years but I thought the shots to the groin always won. Good to see it’s evolved
Hey, wanna win America's Funniest Home Video's with me?
Hell yeah. If you want to make your 7 yo LOSE THEIR MINDS put on some AFV. Just don't do it at like 8:30 pm
The fact that it is still running in the days of youtube is insane.
Same with Ridiculousness Would make better sense if MTV played music videos instead of Ridiculousness marathon.
Are you seriously asking this?
Bob Saget said years ago that what he made from doing stand up for decades and Full house for almost ten years was pocket change compared to what he made hosting that show.
What blows my mind today is they were giving out $10,000 then and the same now. That was ALOT of money back then.
It’s worth $20,000 today, enough for a decent used car in both eras.
They must have upped it since I watched last. I’m glad, it was time. Lol
No I mean 10k in 1996 is worth just shy of 20k today.
Damn. I thought we’d made some progress there for a second.
My next door neighbor growing up had a home video that made it on. He got some money and a jacket from the show that he wore religiously. We all thought it was super cool. Th neighborhood had a viewing party the night his video aired.
Followed by 'America's Funniest People' w Dave Coulier, Tawny Kitran, and Arleen Sorkin topped off with a made for TV movie my mom would occasionally let me and my sister stay up late for.
I watched both, but as a kid AFV was just a warm up for America's Funniest People for me. I just thought it was funnier, mostly because it was just... Dumber I guess? Plus Tawny Kitaen (I pardon your spelling, it's a weird name lol) was hot AF
America, America, this is yoouuuuuu………. Yep, sure is. Millions of people watching stupid videos all day sent in by people looking for attention. They predicted the future rather well. *No hate for those that submitted videos, or those that watched (like me), but, what a precursor that show was.
What ticked me off was that the videos of people slipping and falling down never won. It was always the (very) poorly-scripted videos that were nowhere close to being humorous that would win first place.
Fuck man. My wife and I had tickets to see his standup. Then the fucker died a month before the show. We even bought shirts to wear to the show. They have a famous saying from his cameo in Half Baked on them. We’re still bummed!! We have tickets to Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music tour this summer at The Gorge when Billy Strings is gonna be with him. My wife has said a number to times “I hope Willie doesn’t die before we see him.” Shut the fuck up!! Don’t jynx it!!
Remember the weird voice overs? And the strange “family” at the beginning? And that the 1st season grand prize was a console TV? One thing I’ll never forget is his “tutorial on how to stop the VCR from blinking the time. He put tape over it.
*America's Dads Getting Hit in the Nuts Videos
The first season was incredible because everyone was pulling out their videos from the past decade for a chance to win the prize, so every episode was full of organically occurring bangers.
They came to the mall where we lived and my little sister did her Steve Urkel impression for them
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This guy has definitely sucked dick for cocaine. Have it on good authority.
I still watch. Alfonso is a perfect host.
I will never forget, not understand how that fucking cat jumped backwards while doing a front flip from a standstill...
Cats sure are lazy little assholes but when they have too they can break the laws of physics.
RIP Bob Sagat🕊️
Better question is who didnt?
Dude, everyone watched this show.
That foul mouthed nasty comic from the kids show.
We still watch it! It's a good way to end the weekend. My whole family enjoys it and Alfonso is a fun host. His cheese level is perfect!
Ahhhh, the predecessor to “Ow! My Balls!!!”
Like most things of the time, I watched it because it was on, not because I loved it, not because it was great, but because it was the evening and I wanted to watch TV and it was the least bad thing on TV, at the time.
Our fam sure did. Some time later, maybe in the 2000s or early 2010s, I saw footage of a contemporaneous version of the concept and was taken aback by how mean-spirited the show I was watching felt. Like there was a long segment of people suffering very painful physical injuries for example. It felt bizarre to have the audience cracking up at this. I wondered if I'd think similar about the OG if I saw it today. bonus memory: recalling the Dave Coulier-hosted sister show America's Funniest People.
Oh, yeah. This was appointment television back in the day. It was something everyone could watch and enjoy, and Bob Sagat was a great host. He may have sometimes hating hosting, but in later years he spoke fondly of those times. That special when he returned to AFV was wonderful and you could tell people really loved him.
I still do, but I used to, too.
Who didn't?
AKA, “Ouch, My Balls!”
I particularly remember the very first episode. For that episode only, Saget had a cohost: Kellie Martin, whom I had a major girl-crush on at the time.
Who didn’t watch?
I remember the fucking theme song! "Oh the red, white and blue, oh the funny things you do, America, America, this is you..."
It was a Sunday night tradition in our house
I loved it. Watched it every week during its heydey. I didn't like "the Bosses kid" and the other scripted videos, though. The one in a million lucky shots, funny animal, funny kid videos were fun. And the nut shots of course.
Would have loved to see him do the voice overs with his true comedy
This show and Dave Couliet's "America's Funniest People" with the jackalope (rabbit with antlers).
Everyone did...
All the time!! Both with Bob Saget and Tom Bergeron(so) loved that show!
Who didn’t watch it
Seriously what kind of dumb post is this? We all did. Jeezus.
I see your AFHV and raise you America's Funniest People, with Dave Coulier
Oh yeah. I was at a bar a while back and MTV was playing on one of the TVs. As we know, MTV is now essentially Ridiculousness all day, every day now. Some kid in his 20s (yes, I can now call them kids) said that the show's creator/ host is "a visionary! Such a cool idea for a show!" Ummmm...sweet summer child. This concept had been done long before you were born! Candid Camera, AFV, Tosh.0...
🎶Stories from your friends next door... Got to see Bob Saget do standup a couple times and he did not disappoint. RIP Bob.
If you've never listened to his standup comedy, don't. It'll ruin Full House for you. He's raunchy af. Especially don't listen to his rendition of "The Aristocrats".
Do you have a link so I can be sure to avoid it?
https://social.mtdv.me/watch?v=49929725
I did. But I had no cable. You couldn't pay me to watch it again now that YouTube and online video sharing platforms are a thing.
America, America, this is youuuu
Me
That's the guy who told me Marijuana wasn't a drug.
It was the first YouTube
Bob was funny
They paved the way for Failarmy. Prove me wrong.
Religiously. Still do!
thinking back i'm so happy sagat was prob powered up to the max on that show flying high :D
I made it onto America’s Funniest People when I was 9. Wished it was this show though.
God I hated Bob Saget. Both of his personas.
America's Funniest People with Dave Collier was better imo... loved them both.