Just for Laughs

Surprise Surprise Gotcha

August 2025 •English

Surprise Surprise Gotcha is an Australian hidden camera practical joke television series. Hosted by radio personalities Matt Tilley and Jackie O, the series commenced on the Nine Network on 18 September 2007.

Videomatch

August 2025 •Spanish

Videomatch was a late-night 120-minute Argentine comedy show hosted by Marcelo Tinelli and broadcast on Telefe that debuted in 1989 in the midnight time slot. Currently the show still airs under the name of Showmatch.

Prank Encounters

August 2025 •English

Monstrous frights meet hilarious reveals on this hidden-camera prank show as real people become the stars of their own full-blown horror movie.

Naked Camera

August 2025 •English

Candid camera show in which unsuspecting members of the Irish public as well as some celebrities are accosted by such bizarre characters as the irascible Jake Stevens, Clifford the Orangemen and the desperate bride. All comic roles are played by comedians P.J. Gallagher, Maeve Higgins and Patrick McDonnell.

Repeat After Me

August 2025 •English

Repeat After Me is an American hidden camera comedy television series. Host Wendi McLendon-Covey instructs celebrities to interact with people via a remote ear piece.

Candid Camera

August 2025 •English

Candid Camera is an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947. After a series of theatrical film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone, Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948. The show last aired for 10 episodes in 2014 on the TV Land network. A documentary about Allen Funt is currently in the works by the Candid Camera crew. The format has appeared on U.S. TV networks and in syndication in each succeeding decade, as either a regular show or a series of specials. Allen Funt himself hosted or co-hosted almost all of the TV versions until a 1993 stroke from which he never recovered. His son Peter Funt, who had co-hosted the specials with his father since 1987, became the producer and host.

Twist

August 2025 •English

Hidden cameras capture light hearted, often hilariously absurd, but never mean-spirited pranks on an unsuspecting public.

Oblivious

August 2025 •English

Oblivious is a comedy game show that aired within the United States of America on TNN/Spike TV at various points between 2002 and 2004. It was also aired on Challenge in the UK, Ireland and The Comedy Channel in Australia and still airs on Real TV in South Korea and on TV2 Zebra in Norway. It no longer airs on Spike TV. Comedian Regan Burns served as host. A DVD was later released featuring the best clips of both seasons.

Benidorm Bastards

August 2025 •Dutch

Benidorm Bastards is a Belgian comedy television series.

Disaster Date

August 2025 •English

Disaster Date is a hidden camera TV-show on MTV in which actors go on a blind date with a person. The series premiered on September 28, 2009, and is filmed in Los Angeles, California.

Hi-Jinks

August 2025 •English

Hi-Jinks is a hidden camera show that premiered on Nick at Nite in 2005. The show is hosted by Leila Sbitani. The show gives parents a chance to play practical jokes on their children, in a similar fashion to Candid Camera. Taking a cue from Punk'd, each show features a prank that is conducted with the assistance of a known celebrity.

Les Détestables

August 2025 •French

Captured by hidden cameras, the nine most hateable seniors of the small screen pull pranks on the public, with each trick being more outlandish than the last.

Monster House

August 2025 •English

Monster House was an Australian reality/comedy television series broadcast on the Nine Network. Debuting on 12 February 2008, the program was hosted by Bernard Curry, brother of Stephen and Andrew Curry. The show centred around the Webb family, played by actors Rebel Wilson, Celia Ireland, Travis Cotton, Jody Kennedy, Julie Herbert and Glenn Butcher, who act as a fictional family in a house purpose-built with hidden cameras to capture their performances and those of the unsuspecting guests who get brought into the family's "web". The show debuted with an unimpressive 793,000 viewers tuning in. It was pulled from schedules after its second episode, and axed by the network the following day. Nine had commissioned ten unaired episodes of the show, which were filmed in December 2007 and January 2008. Nine stated it would air the remaining episodes later in the year, and did so as counter-programming during the 2008 Summer Olympics.

François Damiens : 20 ans de caméras cachées cultes

August 2025 •French

Punk'd

August 2025 •English

What happens when the biggest stars in the world get too high on the Hollywood hog? When their bank accounts start swelling bigger than their heads? Master prankster Ashton Kutcher is there to punk 'em down to earth.

MTV's Bugging Out

August 2025 •English

Youtuber and street magician Rob Anderson, joined by stand-up comedian Traci Stumpf, hosts the ultimate hidden camera show where technology turns on users with hilarious results.

Incredible Crew

August 2025 •English

Full of hilarious sketches, hidden camera moments and off-kilter comedy and parodies, this sketch comedy show features a cast of 6 young rising stars that will keep you in stitches!

You've Got a Friend

August 2025 •English

You've Got A Friend was a 2004 reality comedy show on MTV, produced by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg. It was launched near the same time as their reality prank show Punk'd, and although successful in ratings, was cancelled at the end of the first season so they could focus on its more popular counterpart. The show filmed contestants having to tolerate a 'friend' for 48 hours, while filmed on hidden camera in their home and different public settings. The 'friend' would be a trained improvisational comedian, who would progressively torment the contestant, their friends and loved ones. The catch was that the friends and family of the contestant were unaware of the folie à deux. If able to endure the embarrassment caused by the irreverent demands of the friend, the contestant would win a cash prize.

Impractical Jokers

August 2025 •English

This hidden-camera series follows four lifelong friends -- Brian "Q"' Quinn, James "Murr"' Murray, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano -- who take dares to an outrageous level. To find out who is best under pressure, the guys compete in awkward and outrageous hidden-camera hijinks with the loser performing what is deemed to be the most-mortifying challenge yet.

The New Candid Camera

August 2025 •English

Weekly hidden camera series hosted by Allen Funt. It ran from 1974 to 1979.