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## HEADING: AMERICA'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE ## LEFT COLUMN 7050. AMERICA'S FUNNIEST ...Part II. Precursor to below. 5/13/90 AMERICA'S 9/16/90 FUNNIEST PEOPLE Through 12/9/90 Review By Robert MacKenzie AMERICA'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE Talent is rare, that's who more stars and bigwigs make all that money. The amateur clowns who send their attempts to this weekly half hour (Thursdays at 8:30 PM, EST) on ABC are giving us their best material; we have to answer the question: "Are they funny?" Here is a young man who proudly announced "my impression of barn flying." Whereupon he lies down on the asphalt and proceeds to vomit and wig- gle for a half minute. Here is another joker, whose gift is to spit brilliant balls out of his mouth onto the camera point. 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 did a routine 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 pulse his little insides 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 exhausted all our needs for pictures of people squeezing their faces and spilling food on their children. Through the new show seems to draw some of the same video gags, its theme is slightly different: the en- trants are clearly 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 ## RIGHT COLUMN 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 9/19/93 Through 5/22/94 7056. AMERICA'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE 1/11/98 Through 2/22/98 7057. AMERICA'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE 3/22/98 Through 11/7/98 7058. AMERICA'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE 11/8/98 Through 1/24/99 7059.