You've Been Framed

[jjf2003]

Are people so starved of entertainment they find amusement in watching toddlers fall off trikes? I TV so starved of fresh ideas it has to resort to this?

[LeMarchand]

Errr...yes! At least on ITV you don't get "Kirsty's Home Videos" which is of a similar ilk, but features a lot of people who just happen to have their clothes get torn off or are nekkid in the first place.

[gerry]

You talk as if this is a new thing to happen.This kind of stuff has been running on ITV now for over 10 years.Apart from the repeats it's been us the general public that has kept these shows going on this long by sending in our Homevideo blunders.

[Greedyfly]

I only like the animal ones

[IndieSinger]

I thought I was the only one who didn't like it - certainly thought I was the only one who reacted the way I do. When someone falls over or something, the whole "audience" burst into histerics, whereas I always find myself taking a shark intake of breath and going "Ooooh" in a painful manner as we see another 20-odd stone lady swing across a river on an old rope-swing and smack into a 200 year old oak. Especially the kid ones - what's funny about a tot crying after falling off a toy tractor and smacking their head on the concrete side of the pool?

[IndieSinger]

For anyone wondering, a shark intake of breath is a bit like a sharp intake of breath, only a bit pointier and a bit more dangerous.

[Rachum]

I must say it is a very cruel programme. Lets all laugh at pain and embarrassment!! However I must admit it just cracks me up when they show babies sucking lemons! That really is entertainment.

[SavageMonkey]

What I don't understand on Kirsty's Home Videos is that they keep showing videos of people doing things naked, and the canned laughter goes mental. When you put them into the context of "naturists" then there is no reason to find it funny. The people choose to be without their clothes, I don't get the comedy. If the people were riding their bikes and their clothes caught up in the wheels and they were ripped off them, then that might be funny.