10/8/2007 - "after 100 times its still funny!"

If you are a student who dreads school, then I know that Sunday nights probably give you heartburn... you know, that sinking feeling you get knowing that you have to wake up the next morning after a weekend where you were supposed to relax but couldn't because you were probably doing homework instead. Well, I remember those Sunday nights well. What sticks out most in my mind is probably watching America's Funniest Videos when it was on Sunday nights. The concept of the show was simple. Send in your home videos and if it's funny enough, it will be featured on the show, and the audience votes for a winner who wins $10,000. It's definitely not high brow humor, but I could rely on it lifting my down spirits before starting another school week.

America's Funniest Videos was definitely a pre-cursor to what is now YouTube. You don't win any prizes for uploading funny videos, but you do get rated on by your peers, and really good videos can occasionally make it into mainstream media. Here is a YouTube video that would have definitely made it on AFV: