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Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
While On The Lot is recording, I'm watching Just For Laughs on ABC. It is Candid Camera. I'm laughing so hard my sides hurt. They don't have audio from the prank site, just laugh track and appropriate music. It's just the expressions and actions. One set up -- young couple asked passers-by to take a photo of them with a polaroid camera. Sure. Lens was set up to shoot lower. Picture basically of her boobs always came out.

Then a set-up blind man (not really blind) was standing next to a pool or stream kind a thing. People were floating by on innertubes. The "blind man" had tube on him from a hidden water bag so it looked like he was taking a leak into the pool. People's reactions to that!!!

There were more. Two half-hour episodes tonight. My sides hurt.

Another segment. A nicely-endowed female was asking people for directions. She was wearing a tight-fitting tank top with a map of the area on it. Interesting how the passers-by were tring to point out directions to her.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
It is pretty funny. But I don't know if I like that its 100% visual. Meaning, there's no set up, no "here's what's next" kinda thing. And with no audio or dialogue, there's no way to multi-task while this show is on. To get anything out of it what-so-ever, one has to stop everything they're doing and rivet their eyes to the tv screen.

I know that's an odd sounding complaint. But I guess watching this show makes me realize just how much I multi-task while the tv is on.



Watching2
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07-07-2001

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 10:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Yeah, I would have loved to hear audio from the people the pranks were happening to. I did enjoy it, though.

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
I laughed so hard that I peed my pants!! no joke, I really coulnd't help it, I have never laughed so hard in my life.

Terolyn
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05-06-2004

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Terolyn a private message Print Post    
I was wondering if the reason for no audio are that the pranks are being filmed in a different country? Never really got a feel for where this was done.

Serenity
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06-28-2005

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 1:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serenity a private message Print Post    
We've had Just for Laughs Gags here in Canada for a few years. It is hilarious!! It is mostly filmed in Montreal, where the Just for Laughs comedy festival is held yearly. They speak mostly French in Quebec, hence the audio. I think ABC bought the rights to the show.

We watch it with my kids (8 and 5) and they laugh their butts off!

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 5:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
I picked up that it definitely had to be filmed in Montreal since you could see it was in Canada with the mailbox bit, but there was so much written in French on the businesses, etc., it had to be there.

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Tuesday, August 07, 2007 - 11:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
A lot of this show is European as well. Taken from the original show "Just Kidding". But "Just Kidding" was an R-rated series to north american audiences, so we won't see the the truly raunchy and hilarious bits...