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7050. AMERICA'S FUNNIEST ...Part II. 5/13/90
Precursor to below.
AMERICA'S 9/16/90
FUNNIEST PEOPLE
Through 12/9/90
Review
By Robert MacKenzie
AMERICA'S
FUNNIEST
PEOPLE
Talent is rare, that's why movie stars
and ballplayers make all that money.
The amateur clowns who send their
videotapes to this weekly half hour
(Sundays at 8:30 PM (ET) on ABC) are
giving us their best material, we have to
assume. It's pretty ...ing.
Here is a young man who proudly
announces "my impression of bacon
frying." Whereupon he lies down on the
asphalt and proceeds to twitch and wig-
gle for a half minute. Here is another
joker whose gift is to spit billiard balls
out of his mouth into the corner pocket.
Almost.
Barking like a dog seems to be a
popular pastime out there, and almost
everyone does a terrible impression of
George Bush. Some of this is so awful
it's funny; most of it is so awful it's just
awful. But the amateur performers are
clearly having such a giddy time that we
sometimes have to smile along with
them. One young woman sits a tomato
to make a mouth and squeezed its sides
to make it say, "I'm Tommy Tomato. I
don't feel so good." Then she squeezed
it harder, causing Tommy to pucker his
little inside out. I made myself do 20
laps for laughing at that one.
This show is, of course, an offshoot
of America's Funniest Home Videos,
which one would think had satisfied all
our needs for pictures of people squeez-
ing their faces and spilling food on their
children. Though the new show seems
to draw some of the same video goons,
its theme is slightly different: the en-
trants are overtly trying to be funny,
whereas contributors to its predecessor

7051. AMERICA'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE
Hosted by David Coulier and
Arleen Sorkin.
1/6/91 through 9/29/91

7052. AMERICA'S
FUNNIEST
PEOPLE
Hosted by David Coulier
and Arleen Sorkin.
10/6/91 through 2/16/92

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7053. AMERICA'S
FUNNIEST PEOPLE
3/1/92 through 11/22/92
Arleen Sorkin to Tawny Kitaen.

7054. AMERICA'S
FUNNIEST PEOPLE
11/29/92 through 3/6/94

7055. AMERICA'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE

7056. AMERICA'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE

7057. AMERICA'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE

7058. AMERICA'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE

7059.