How sad is this?

Blistering performances.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

One of my favorite shows to this day, even the Alfonso Era. But IMDb Parents Guide, I need to tell you something: There's one episode that features a full screen Jump Scare, and your "Frightening/Intense Scenes" category says "Nothing"? They apparently haven't seen every episode.

I've watched AFV for over 30 years and am not going to watch it anymore. Snot, vomit, hurting or scaring the holy hell out of kids...??What's funny about all that sort of crap. Trailer trash entertainment.Backward videos, now upside down videos...? Really hysterical and entertaining..ABC should stand for the All Bergeron Channel.. He's not funny, he's not talented. Egotistical, camera hog. In love with himself. And he's on everything ABC has. This network can't find someone else to host what was once a funny, entertaining show? I'm done with it.. Hello anything else that on besides this show that's been going downhill for the last 7 or 8 yeas with Bergeron.. Bye Bye...

When the show first came on in 1990, it was funny, namely because of its novelty value. Home videos were still relatively rare, and there were already occasional programs depicting the occasional flubbed lines, minor accidents, etc. by professional television people. Why not expand the idea to amateurs making their videos?And there were funny events such as minor accidents at gatherings, or while playing sports, or people who were supposed to do or say one thing but forgot or goofed, or animals or kids doing something they weren't supposed to. These things happen in real life, after all.Of course, as the years went by and the show started offering "funniest" awards, inevitably people would send in staged "bloopers" or things that were shocking rather than humorous, or any of a number of outrageous actions in a desperate attempt to top other videos. In other words, people were trying anything to get on television to be seen by millions. Which I supposed was inevitable during the show's too-long run.

Just a few seconds ago, while checking his profile, I read that AFV's current host Tom Bergeron used to work as a mime. It figures. He's possibly the stiffest, dullest host ever to crawl across the screen. His jokes aren't deadpan, they're just dead, period. As if the puns weren't bad enough, his telling of them will have the audience snoring rather than laughing.That being said... some of the clips are absolutely hilarious! Watching a baby hit his father in the nuts with a baseball bat may be too lowbrow for you, but simple humour is often funny humour. Although some videos are obviously staged (which makes you wonder just how bored these people are), the ones that depict real accidents are hilarious. So if you can stand Bergeron's droning attempts at ruining funny videos, check this out.