When the show first hit the airwaves in 1989, when (viral videomeant nothing(video cameras were still a few years away from ubiquity as they are in the mid 2010's, and one had to grossly inattentive to take a shot to the crotch AFV was great old fashioned funny family fare for Sunday night to wrap up the weekend, now many of the videos are staged, and Alphonso Ribero is just flat annoying. It's still enjoyable for small kids, otherwise,it's outdated and boring, and Alphonso Ribero is better off selling breakdancing lessons on videotape.

I knew lately that it was an old idea which came out at the end of the 1970s. I bet this taste of realism wasn't needed back then. However after getting saturated out of too many beautiful and glossy worlds, the call for that idea was on.It's 2 shows already. Firstly the days of (Bob Saget). OH MY GOD. This was historically funny. It had such a brilliant spirit. The introductions of the videos were so smartly written. (Saget) is one of the finest hosts I have ever watched. His commentaries during the video were incredibly creative and hilarious. The choices of the videos were mostly decent. And the musical montages couldn't be better, being a classic TV indeed.Then, the doomsday suddenly started. (Saget) vanished, along with all the brilliance too. And (Tom Bergeron) came in. Another OH MY GOD, yet in totally different sense !(Bergeron) is sorrowfully not only lesser, but untalented in the first place. The introductions became something to avoid. (Bergeron)'s commentaries during the videos are just silly. Actually listing to that very dry writing resembled eating sands. Even the shown material has gone weirdly bad. The show's intention transformed from lovely to emetic. Its comedy inclined to; farts, urine, etc (the 1990s and 2000s filth). The winning videos are disastrous. Hence the assured final result is : unfunny, or worse; alleging to be funny. And instead of being always enjoyed out of watching it, I come to be always regretted !So from no realism, to yes realism but nice, to yes realism but nasty. See how you can read the history of TV through this show. The problem is that in the nasty phase it lost the decency along with the knack and the laughs as well. If you're interested in watching farts, urine, and the like, then go to any dirty public toilet and live there for the time you want. And if you're interested in laughing then watch the first seasons and forget the rest. I still can't believe they're one show !

I agree with everybody else who said they DESPISE this sorry program. I certainly CAN'T stand Bob Saget ("Full House" also stunk), and Tom Bergeron isn't any better. And one critic was right on when he said this show is "just an excuse for people to make asses of themselves to win money" (I have a better title for it: "The Hour for the Artistically Challenged and Money-Hungry"). Simply put, this show is an insult to one's intelligence!I think the only reason "America's Funniest Home Videos" is still surviving is because the producers are PAYING ABC to keep the show on. But, if it's any consolation, the network has pitted it against "60 Minutes" on CBS Sunday nights at 7:00 P.M. Eastern time, so here's hoping "60 Minutes" continues to trounce "America's Funniest Home Videos'" ass in the ratings!Equally surprising was that when "America's Funniest Home Videos" was first syndicated in 1996 (a BIG mistake), the producers tapped MTM Enterprises, which former Chicago Sun-Times TV critic and nationally syndicated columnist Gary Deeb called "the class act of television," to distribute the reruns. Certainly, MTM had much better, and more intelligent, shows during its 28-year history, such as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Rhoda," "WKRP in Cincinnati," and "Hill Street Blues." I am VERY certain the only reason why MTM said yes to distributing the reruns of "America's Funniest Home Videos" is because they knew they were then flirting with bankruptcy, and since their other quality shows were failing, they were desperate to stay alive! Since Mary Tyler Moore was then still the Chairperson of the Board of MTM, she herself should have told the producers of "America's Funniest Home Videos" "NO!" to syndicating this show! (MTM was dropped as an affiliated company by the Television South Corporation, better known as TVS, of London, England, near the end of 1995 after seven years - the result of poor management of the property on TVS' part - but was rescued in early 1996 by International Family Entertainment, Inc., a spin-off company of the Christian Broadcasting Network. Two years later, however, IFE itself was purchased by NewsCorp, parent company of 20th Century Fox; that buyout, sadly, meant the end of MTM as it was absorbed into 20th Century Fox Television. Now Fox syndicates the reruns of "America's Funniest Home Videos;" this program, in all honesty, seems more appropriate for a company like Fox to distribute, but if Rupert Murdoch and Co. were smart, they SHOULDN'T pay any more residuals to the untalented and brainless turkeys who submitted the "material" to this waste of time!)Here's also hoping ABC wises up after 16 years and drops "America's Funniest Home Videos" for good. I sure WOULDN'T miss it if and when it goes away!

Early on this stuff was actually real, but then people started realizing that in order to get on television, all they had to do was pretend to hit their heads or have their children smack them in the crotch, and it guaranteed fifteen minutes of fame.Watch as Daddy gets struck in the lower regions by Junior and Bob Saget screams from off-camera, "That musta hurt him!" Watch Bob Saget try to be funny and watch him fail. Again. How did he even get a start on TV? The only thing he's ever done that made me laugh was his "cameo" in DUMB AND DUMBERER, because he swore a lot, and as we all know, Bob Saget is the clean host of this clean show, so to see him swear is automatically humorous.Some of this show's early, genuine stuff is funny - the staged stuff is no better than a poorly performed, amateurish skit.