RIP Tawny Kitaen (America's Funniest People) - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

stevearino · 05-08-2021, 03:01 PM

https://people.com/music/tawny-kitaen-dead-at-59/

Tawny's contribution to TV Game Shows was co-hosting, with Dave Coulier, Seasons 3 & 4 of the Game Show spin-off "America's Funniest People," which spun off from "America's Funniest Home Videos" and aired for 4 seasons.

Dude111 · 05-08-2021, 05:57 PM

Very sad

DJM77 · 05-08-2021, 08:05 PM

America's Funniest People wasn't a game show.

stevearino · 05-08-2021, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by DJM77

America's Funniest People wasn't a game show.

Oh yes it was.

DJM77 · 05-08-2021, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by stevearino

Oh yes it was.

I guess we have very different definitions of what a game show is. I would consider it a reality series.

stevearino · 05-08-2021, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DJM77

I guess we have very different definitions of what a game show is. I would consider it a reality series.

Even so, there are various different types of "Game Shows."

Quiz Games like "Jeopardy!" are most common, BUT there's also Guessing Games like "The Price Is Right." "America's Funniest People" and "America's Funniest Home Videos" are Tournament Game Shows.

"AFV" has 3 Contestants sending in their funniest moments ever caught on film in the hopes of earning $10,000, plus an additional $100,000 every 3 months, whereas "AFP" had Vin Di Bona & Company go across America, with sequences deliberately staged, hoping to find funny ordinary Americans willing to compete as Contestants, 3 per show, against each other for a $10,000 Grand Prize.

Bonniegirl · 05-08-2021, 11:13 PM

Very sad !

She was really young to pass away !

Prayers to her family and friends! May she rest in peace!

80sTrivia · 05-09-2021, 04:12 PM

I guess I'll always think of her from the Whitesnake video "Here I Go Again". Too young to have left this world...

icecream · 05-10-2021, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by stevearino

Even so, there are various different types of "Game Shows."

Quiz Games like "Jeopardy!" are most common, BUT there's also Guessing Games like "The Price Is Right." "America's Funniest People" and "America's Funniest Home Videos" are Tournament Game Shows.

"AFV" has 3 Contestants sending in their funniest moments ever caught on film in the hopes of earning $10,000, plus an additional $100,000 every 3 months, whereas "AFP" had Vin Di Bona & Company go across America, with sequences deliberately staged, hoping to find funny ordinary Americans willing to compete as Contestants, 3 per show, against each other for a $10,000 Grand Prize.

America's Funniest Home Videos and America's Funniest People are not game shows, they are reality shows. The administrators here agree with me and DJM77 since your thread got moved from the game show board to the reality show board. Deliberately staged you say, game shows aren't allowed to rig things like that, has been that way ever since the Twenty-One scandal way back in the 1950s. Reality shows are allowed to stage/rig the outcome, though.

Edward216 · 05-18-2021, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by DJM77

I guess we have very different definitions of what a game show is. I would consider it a reality series.

I agree with you, America's Funniest People is NOT a game show!

Ed.

05-08-2021, 03:01 PM	#1
stevearino Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Oct 15, 2017 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 249	RIP Tawny Kitaen (America's Funniest People) https://people.com/music/tawny-kitaen-dead-at-59/ Tawny's contribution to TV Game Shows was co-hosting, with Dave Coulier, Seasons 3 & 4 of the Game Show spin-off "America's Funniest People," which spun off from "America's Funniest Home Videos" and aired for 4 seasons.

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05-08-2021, 05:57 PM	#2
Dude111 Forum Legend Join Date: Nov 05, 2013 Posts: 35,780	Very sad

05-08-2021, 11:13 PM	#7
Bonniegirl AKA Hazel Horvath Forum Addict Join Date: Jul 10, 2014 Posts: 65,524	Very sad ! She was really young to pass away ! Prayers to her family and friends! May she rest in peace!