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{{Short description|TelevisionCanadian programsilent comedy/hidden camera reality television series}}
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{{Infobox television
| image = Just For Laughs Gags.png
| caption =
| alt_name = ''Just for Laughs''
| genre = [[Comedy]]
| creator = Pierre Girard<br>Jacques Chevalier
| writer =
| director =
| creative_director =
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| composer =
| country = Canada
| language = Silent<br>Interjection<br>French<br>English
| num_seasons = 2024 <small>(as of [[2020 in Canadian television|2020]]2024)</small>
| num_episodes = 3,000+
| list_episodes =
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| cinematography =
| camera =
| runtime = 1515–22 minutes
| channel = * [[TVA (Canadian TV network)|TVA]]<br>[[CBC Television]]<br>[[CTV Comedy Channel|The Comedy Network]]<br>[[TVOntario]] (Canada)
* [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]<br>[[Telemundo]]<br>[[Laff (TV network)|Laff]] (United States)
| picture_format =
| audio_format =
| first_aired = {{start date|df=yes|2000|12|26}}
| last_aired = {{end date|present}}
| related = [[Just for Laughs (British TV series)|''Just for Laughs'' (British TV series)]]<br>''[[Just for Laughs Gags Asia]]''<br>''[[Just Kidding (TV series)|Just Kidding]]''<br>''[[Candid Camera]]''
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'''''Just for Laughs Gags''''' ([[French language|French]]: '''''Juste pour rire les gags''''') is a Canadian [[silent comedy]]/[[hidden camera]] [[Reality television#Hidden cameras|reality television showseries]] that is under the [[Just for Laughs]] brand<ref>[http://www.aoltv.com/show/just-for-laughs-gags/185761 Just for Laughs Gags] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211405/http://www.aoltv.com/show/just-for-laughs-gags/185761 |date=23 September 2015 }} "This crazy but amazing team of Quebec-based comedian troupe uses the city as its stage, and its inhabitants, or victims, as characters! People are caught in a twisted yet funny web of comedic deception. This updated ''Candid Camera'' is a tad more risque and a little kookier with its practical jokes. The little snippets last only a few minutes, and some look more painful than others."</ref> created by Pierre Girard and Jacques Chevalier.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2016/06/the-strange-phenomenon-of-just-for-laughs-canadian-prank-series.html|title=The Strange Phenomenon of Just For Laughs’ Canadian Prank Series|author=Eddie Brawley|date=7 June 2016|website=Vulture}}</ref>
 
The series uses a [[hidden camera]] format, playing [[practical joke|pranks]] on unsuspecting subjects while hidden cameras capture the subjects' responses; each episode presents multiple gags. While some segments have included brief dialogue, most do not contain any sound or dialogue. The audio is replaced with [[sound effect]]s, a [[laugh track]], and music.
 
== Production ==
On 2621 December 2000, ''JFL'':Just for Laughs ''Gags'' began airing on French Canadian network [[Canal D]]. In the following years, the show was picked up by [[TVA (Canadian TV network)|TVA]], [[CBC Television|CBC]] and [[CTV Comedy Channel|The Comedy Network]] in Canada, [[BBC1]] in the UK, [[TF1]] in France, and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and [[Telemundo]] and also [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]] in the United States; the Canadian version (unlike the ones produced for ABC) aired in the United States in first-run syndication starting in the fall of 2015. That version is distributed by PPI Partners and is available in both weekday strip and weekend runs.<ref>[http://www.ppi.tv/news_mar242015.shtml "THE WHOLE WORLD'S LAUGHING WITH PPI. JUST FOR LAUGHS GAGS CLEARS 75% FOR SEPTEMBER 2015"] from PPI (March 2015)</ref>
 
Most segments are filmed in [[Montreal]], while some have been filmed in [[Quebec City]], [[Vancouver]] and [[Mexico]]. [[Just for Laughs (British TV series)|British]] and [[Just for Laughs Gags Asia|Asian]] versions have been produced in the [[UK]] and [[Singapore]], respectively. In 2011, the show spawned a spin-off, ''[[Just Kidding (TV series)|Just Kidding]]'', which consists exclusively of kids playing pranks on adults.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}
 
== Cast ==
{{more citations needed|date=June 2014}}
This section requires specific casting related to ''Just for Laughs: Gags''.<ref>{{Citation |title=Just for Laughs Gags (TV Series 2001– ) - IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2486436/reference/ |access-date=2022-10-08}}</ref>
 
* Antoine Laurier<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Just For Laughs Family Of Pranksters |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbmXJ6P1W38 |website=YouTube |publisher=Just For Labs |access-date=8 April 2024}}</ref>
* Claude Talbot
* Dany Many
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* [[Keith Law (comedian)|Keith Law]]
* [[Kirsteen O'Sullivan]]
* [[:fr:Marie-Andrée_Poulin|Marie-Andrée Poulin]]
* [[:fr:Marie-Ève_Larivière|Marie-Ève Larivière]]
* Marie-Ève Verdier
* Marie-Pierre Bouchard
* Mathilde Laurier<ref name=":1" />
* Maude Croteau
* Maude Laurier<ref name=":1" />
* Nadja David
* Pascal Babin
* [[:fr:Philippe_Bond|Philippe Bond]]
* Rebecca Laurier<ref name=":1" />
* Richard Ledoux
* Richardson Zéphir
* Sonia Butterworth
* Ted Pluviose
 
== Reception ==
[[File:Tv just for laughs gags.JPG|thumb|200px|A gag on ''Just for Laughs Gags'']]
With its silent format and no translation required (outside of gag set-up commentary which is easily localizedlocalised), in three years ''Just for Laughs'': ''Gags'' reached 70 countries and by 2015 had been purchased for use in over 130 countries throughout the world as well as in airports and by airlines.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Zarzycki |first=Nick |date=2019-05-31 |title=The cost of cringe: Does Just for Laughs: Gags go too far? |language=en |work=National Post |url=https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/the-cost-of-cringe-does-just-for-laughs-gags-go-too-far |access-date=2022-06-09}}</ref>
 
Reactions to the gags range from "inane"<ref>Keyan Tomaselli ''Cultural Tourism and Identity: Rethinking Indigeneity'' 2012 – Page 29 "The inane Just for Laughs candid camera on the drop-down video screen is interspersed with silent movies on the … Mick Francis … responded to this note: "as a Canadian I must apologize for the Just for Laughs show as it a strange Canadian export filmed in the late 1980s and mysteriously shown around the world" (Francis, personal communication, October 2008).."</ref> to cross-culturally funny.<ref>Ray Wiss ''A Line in the Sand: Canadians at War in Kandahar'' 2010 Page 249 "It was an episode of Gags from the Just for Laughs organization in Montreal. For those who have not seen this, it is reminiscent of Candid Camera: the comedians set up an outlandish situation on a city street or in a mall and capture people's reactions. The Afghans got the jokes and laughed as hard as I did."</ref> The same distributors also distribute ''[[Surprise Sur Prise]]'', a similar show.
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Bruce Hills, who is COO of the company responsible for the show, thinks that the reason why it is in demand among TV channels is because of its feature of expressing to audiences without language.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2015/01/08/just-for-laughs-gags-15-years-growing-around-the-world/|title=Just for Laughs: Gags – 15 years growing around the world|date=8 January 2015|author=Carmel Kilkenny|website=Radio Canada International}}</ref>
 
==''Just for Laughs'' (2007American televisionTV series)==
{{Infobox television
| alt_name = ''Just for Laughs''
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| runtime = 23 minutes
| channel = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| picture_format = [[NTSC]]
| audio_format =
| first_aired = {{start date|df=yes|2007|7|17}}
| last_aired = {{End date|df=yes|2009|7|12}}
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'''''Just for Laughs''''' is an American [[sketch comedy]] show hosted by [[Rick Miller (comedian)|Rick Miller]] produced by [[Dakota Pictures]] that shows clips from the Canadian version of the show.
 
Good ratings during the summer airings in 2007 and a [[2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike|writer's union strike]] resulted in ABC adding the show to the network lineup as a [[mid-season replacement]] for 2007-20082007–08.
 
It returned to the schedule on 1 January 2008, before being cancelled on 12 May 2008. On 4 June 2009, it was announced that a third season would begin airing on 21 June 2009.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=8145 | title=ABC Revives "Just for Laughs" | date=4 June 2009 | publisher=The Futon Critic | access-date=14 December 2018 }}</ref>
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Seasonal ratings based on average total viewers per episode of ''Just for Laughs'' on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]:
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