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7.1/10 IMDb Developed by Wild Rover Productions Ending theme Just For Laughs Theme Final episode date 21 July 2007 Number of episodes 50 | 8/10 TV Genre Comedy Opening theme Just For Laughs Theme First episode date 31 May 2003 Network BBC One Executive producer Philip Morrow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by Pascal Carrette
Jett Loe Starring Keith Law
Kirsteen O'Sullivan
Sonia Butterworth Nominations Canadian Comedy Award for Live / Best Taped Live Performance Similar Just for Laughs: Gags, Who Gets the Last Laugh?, The Graham Norton S, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, CBC Winnipeg Comedy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Just for Laughs UK is an adaptation of the Canadian Series of the same name, that began in Montreal in late 2000. hidden camera The comedy show was broadcast on Saturday nights on BBC One. It was produced by Wild Rover Productions with Philip Morrow as producer. It started airing in 2003 and ran for five seasons, going off air in 2007. During its run, it was the only Saturday night entertainment show currently on BBC One to be produced by an independent television company based outside London.
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Just for Laughs was filmed primarily in and around Belfast, Northern Ireland, Glasgow, Scotland and Leeds, England. The Belfast Botanic Gardens were a common filming location for doing some pranks.
Just for Laughs has a Canadian sister version called Just for Laughs: Gags, and the format of the two is identical. Some clips for Just for Laughs are taken directly from Just for Laughs Gags, and vice versa.
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Repeat broadcasts
Since Just For Laughs ended on BBC One in 2007, the show was rarely repeated although Paramount Comedy 2 repeated the series at weekends for a short period in 2006, But it was not until 2009 when Channel 5's Sister Channel 5* (then called Fiver) bought the rights to repeat the episodes on weekday afternoons. Since the summer of 2010 the show has not been repeated on 5* and seemed highly unlikely to ever be repeated. However, from Monday 23 July 2012 the program was repeated on Comedy Central Extra for first time since 2006. The JustforlaughsTV YouTube channel has over 1 billion video views.
DVD releases
There have been several DVD releases of Just For Laughs which are below, each of these releases have been postponed