Explore the history of America's Funniest Home Videos with a new podcast series

The podcast’s promo spot describes it as “[pulling] back the curtain on AFV” via interviews with its creators, crew, and hosts Bob Saget, Tom Bergeron, and Alfonso Ribeiro. It also promises to touch on topics like whether the show maintains a “top-secret vault full of VHS tapes,” what it’s been like to keep it going with the internet as constant competition, and how the show’s video submissions are sorted into broadcasts. No mention is given as to other, equally pressing questions, like whether AFV’s producers have ever scientifically measured the effects that screening hundreds of hours of videos in which old people badly hurt themselves has on the human psyche.

Still, it sounds like an interesting project and one that should pair well with walking down the icy streets this winter, watching people wipe out, and imagining how much funnier they’d look if their accidents were accompanied with sound effects and Bob Saget jokes.

America, This Is You! is available now on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pandora, and Overcast.

[via Boing Boing]

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