A weekly primetime newsmagazine that profiled funny, human interest stories. Instead of featuring celebrities, this show searched out humorous individuals, situations and events that highlighted the common man.
This odd reality TV precursor was a surprise hit at the turn of the 80's spawning a small list of imitation shows, including a couple of spinoffs on NBC itself. Having recently viewed the first 2 episodes on Amazon (I vaguely remember watching it first-run), the stories were infinitely more interesting than the rest of the program, which was usually overstuffed with a heaping, bland mix of Laugh-In style humor and SNL-live bloopers. In other words, it was a show for real people.
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