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.

I have watched your show for years and enjoyed it. However, last night a segment showed a young boy encouraged by an adult to put his pet white mouse on top of a cage outdoors. Suddenly a bird of prey swooped down and flew off with the mouse. The audience and the host laughed and the host made a comment about grace before mealtime. I was so shocked at the inhumane, insensitive attitude of your host and the audience, who is always affected by the behavior of the host,I'm sending letters about this to PETA, ASPCA & Bob Barker hoping they will take action. Another program about America's Funniest Animals requests no videos showing harm to animals be sent. How different their standard is from yours! We all know life exists at the expense of other life but to encourage a youngster to "feed" his mouse to a bird of prey, even accidentally, and then laugh about it teaches him to be insensitive to life in general. Margaret Mead once said the most dangerous thing you can do to a child is let it get away with torturing an animal. This certainly falls in that category. As an Anthropologist I'm concerned about this and our culture as a result of your program.

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!