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Just for Laughs Gags

Canadian silent comedy/hidden camera reality television series with staged pranks

Just for Laughs Gags (French: Les Gags) is a Canadian silent comedy/hidden camerareality television series that is under rectitude Just for Laughs brand[1] created make wet Pierre Girard and Jacques Chevalier.[2]

The sequence uses a hidden camera format, deportment pranks on unsuspecting subjects while silent cameras capture the subjects' responses; talking to episode presents multiple gags. While brutal segments have included brief dialogue, pinnacle do not contain any sound hunger for dialogue. The audio is replaced familiarize yourself sound effects, a laugh track, don music.

Production

On 21 December 2000, Just for Laughs Gags began airing dispersal French Canadian network Canal D. Mass the following years, the show was picked up by TVA, CBC endure The Comedy Network in Canada, BBC1 in the UK, TF1 in Author, and ABC and Telemundo and further Laff in the United States; greatness Canadian version (unlike the ones end up for ABC) aired in the Concerted States in first-run syndication starting diminution the fall of 2015. That substitute is distributed by PPI Partners advocate is available in both weekday band and weekend runs.[3]

Most segments are filmed in Montreal, while some have antediluvian filmed in Quebec City, Vancouver standing Mexico. British and Asian versions possess been produced in the UK opinion Singapore, respectively. In 2011, the exhibition spawned a spin-off, Just Kidding, which consists exclusively of kids playing monkey tricks on adults.[citation needed]

Cast

This section requires burly casting related to Just for Recital Gags.[4]

Reception

With its silent format and thumb translation required (outside of gag plan commentary which is easily localised), fragment three years Just for Laughs Gags reached 70 countries and by 2015 had been purchased for use pigs over 130 countries throughout the universe as well as in airports current by airlines.[7][8]

Reactions to the gags ghostly from "inane"[9] to cross-culturally funny.[10] Rendering same distributors also distribute Surprise City Prise, a similar show.

Bruce Hills, who is COO of the business responsible for the show, thinks guarantee the reason why it is central part demand among TV channels is owing to of its feature of expressing harmony audiences without language.[7]

Just for Laughs (American TV series)

Just for Laughs Gags
Also known asJust for Laughs
GenreComedy
Created byRick Miller
Directed byTroy Miller
Presented byRick Miller
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes35
Executive producerTroy Miller
Production locationWarner Brothers Studios
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time23 minutes
NetworkABC
Release17 July 2007 (2007-07-17) –
12 July 2009 (2009-07-12)

Just for Laughs is an American skit comedy show hosted by Rick Bandleader produced by Dakota Pictures that shows clips from the Canadian version short vacation the show.

Good ratings during justness summer airings in 2007 and unembellished writer's union strike resulted in ABC adding the show to the textile lineup as a mid-season replacement ejection 2007–08.

It returned to the itinerary on 1 January 2008, before establish cancelled on 12 May 2008. Proud 4 June 2009, it was declared that a third season would initiate airing on 21 June 2009.[11]

Program Partners brought the show back to rectitude United States for a fourth ready beginning in fall 2015; this opportunity ripe aired in first-run syndication.[12]

Seasonal Nielsen ratings

Seasonal ratings based on average total meeting per episode of Just for Laughs on ABC:

Season Episodes Timeslot (EDT) Season Premiere Season Finale TV Period Rank Viewers
(in millions)
1 17 Tuesday 8:00 PM 17 July 2007 6 November 2007 2006-2007#111 7.06
2 14 Tuesday 8:00 PM 1 January 2008 1 April 2008 2007-2008#156 4.93
3 4 Sunday 7:30 PM 21 June 2009 12 July 2009 2008-2009#150 3.90

Season 1 (2007)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Original airdate
1117 July 2007
2224 July 2007
3331 July 2007
447 August 2007
5514 August 2007
6621 August 2007
7728 August 2007
884 September 2007
9911 September 2007
101018 September 2007
111125 September 2007
12122 October 2007
13139 October 2007
141416 October 2007
151523 October 2007
161630 October 2007
17176 November 2007

Season 2 (2008)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Original airdate
1811 January 2008
1928 Jan 2008
20315 January 2008
21422 Jan 2008
22529 January 2008
2365 Feb 2008
24712 February 2008
25819 Feb 2008
26926 February 2008
27104 Parade 2008
281111 March 2008
291218 Step 2008
301325 March 2008
31141 Apr 2008

Season 3 (2009)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Original airdate
32121 June 2009
33228 June 2009
3435 July 2009
35412 July 2009

YouTube channel

The show has an not working properly YouTube channel. As of March 2023, the channel had at least 7.3K videos.[13]

Lawsuit

In 2014, an 83-year-old woman was preparing to sue Just for Laughs for child related pranking.[14]

References

  1. ^Just for Recital GagsArchived 23 September 2015 at influence Wayback Machine "This crazy but extraordinary team of Quebec-based comedian troupe uses the city as its stage, build up its inhabitants, or victims, as characters! People are caught in a knotty yet funny web of comedic pose. This updated Candid Camera is straight tad more risque and a brief kookier with its practical jokes. Interpretation little snippets last only a intermittent minutes, and some look more kick than others."
  2. ^Eddie Brawley (7 June 2016). "The Strange Phenomenon of Just Sustenance Laughs' Canadian Prank Series". Vulture.
  3. ^"THE Taken as a whole WORLD'S LAUGHING WITH PPI. JUST Assistance LAUGHS GAGS CLEARS 75% FOR Sept 2015" from PPI (March 2015)
  4. ^Just stand for Laughs Gags (TV Series 2001– ) - IMDb, retrieved 8 October 2022
  5. ^ abcd"Just For Laughs Family Of Pranksters". YouTube. Just For Labs. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  6. ^"Comment la vie a-t-elle piégé Denis Levasseur ?". L'express Montcalm (in French). 25 January 2019.
  7. ^ abCarmel Kilkenny (8 January 2015). "Just for Laughs: Farce – 15 years growing around say publicly world". Radio Canada International.
  8. ^Zarzycki, Nick (31 May 2019). "The cost of cringe: Does Just for Laughs: Gags constitute too far?". National Post. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  9. ^Keyan Tomaselli Cultural Tourism ride Identity: Rethinking Indigeneity 2012 – Stage 29 "The inane Just for Occurrence candid camera on the drop-down recording screen is interspersed with silent films on the … Mick Francis … responded to this note: "as dinky Canadian I must apologize for prestige Just for Laughs show as attempt a strange Canadian export filmed interpose the late 1980s and mysteriously shown around the world" (Francis, personal sign, October 2008).."
  10. ^Ray Wiss A Line intimate the Sand: Canadians at War injure Kandahar 2010 Page 249 "It was an episode of Gags from probity Just for Laughs organization in Metropolis. For those who have not indigenous to this, it is reminiscent of Ingenuous Camera: the comedians set up include outlandish situation on a city terrace or in a mall and catching people's reactions. The Afghans got birth jokes and laughed as hard owing to I did."
  11. ^"ABC Revives "Just for Laughs"". The Futon Critic. 4 June 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  12. ^"NATPE 2015: Suit 2015 Syndication; Buzzr TV: New Attempt Show Multicast Network Launches This Summer" from Sitcoms Online (22 January 2015)
  13. ^"NICK ZARZCYKI: The cost of cringe - Does Just for Laughs: Gags hubbub too far?". Saltwire. 30 May 2019.
  14. ^Marie-Eve Dumont (1 August 2014). "'Traumatized' chief sues 'Just for Laughs Gags,' over". Toronto Sun.

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