America’s Funniest Home Videos Sundays, 7/6c, ABC
AFV: America, This Is You! Sunday, Dec. 8, 8/7c, ABC
IT’S HARD TO remember a time when Americans didn’t have social media to share their funny and embarrassing filmed moments. But 30 years ago, the main destination for revealing those laugh-and-cringe recordings (wedding mishaps! outrageous falls!) was ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos.
And to think it all began…in Tokyo? “There was a variety show on Tokyo Broadcasting System called Fun TV With Kato-Chan and Ken-Chan,” AFV creator Vin Di Bona says. “Toward the end of each episode, they’d show three home videos and ask celebrities to vote on the funniest one. We said, ‘More home videos! Forget the variety; let’s run a contest [with a $10,000 weekly prize and $100,000 grand prize] and…
