Video Gag [SEP] original network
Video Gag
Video Gag (pronounced "vee-day-oh gag") is a French television show that airs weekly on French broadcast channel TF1. It is essentially a French version of "America's Funniest Home Videos" or the British "You've been framed!" and uses funny videos sent in by viewers. Although the videos are primarily French in origin, it also uses other videos from other countries on occasion.
Videos Gag has two hosts: Sebastien Follin, (who as of 2005 also gives
Mark Romanek and received frequent rotation on MTV, though the network heavily censored the original version, which they perceived to be too graphic. The video shows events in a laboratory dealing with religion, sexuality, animal cruelty, politics, and terror; controversial imagery included a nude bald woman with a crucifix mask, a monkey tied to a cross, a pig's head spinning on some type of machine, a diagram of a vulva, Reznor wearing an S&M mask while swinging in shackles, and of him wearing a ball gag