The urge to play practical jokes—and laugh when those jokes are deployed successfully—is timeless and universal, so it only makes sense that with the rise of television in America came the arrival of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Factory has snapped up North American distribution rights to Candid Camera, the hidden-camera show known for its decades-long run as a television pioneer. The multi-year agreement ...

Mayim Bialik will join longtime host Peter Funt on the revival, which debuts Aug. 11. By Lesley Goldberg Television Editor, West Coast The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik has a second gig. The ...

Making fun of people in videos who aren’t in on the joke has been a long-time reality TV theme dating back to the 1950s with “Candid Camera.” More recently, MTV's “Punk’d,” and truTV cable shows now ...