“America’s Funniest Home Videos” drew nearly 33 million viewers when it debuted in 1989. Its amateur footage of adults, children and pets captured in pratfalls made the show ABC’s longest-running ...

Our world is awash in video. Anyone toting a smartphone or a tablet can capture the momentous and the mundane with the swipe of a finger. And nowadays, it only takes a second swipe to broadcast it all ...

I have distinct memories of watching America’s Funniest Home Videos with my family as a kid. My siblings and I would settle into positions on or around my parents’ bed, and watch and laugh at the ...

For years after 1989, when the first episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos, aka AFV, aired in prime time on ABC, creator Vin Di Bona trained millions of amateur videographers to mail him their ...