The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest...
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truTV Presents: World's Dumbest... (formerly titled The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest...) is a cable television
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

 series produced by Meetinghouse Productions, Inc. and is airing on truTV. Originally known as World's Dumbest Criminals, it is a weekly countdown that takes a comedic look at twenty half-witted and offbeat events caught on camera and sometimes by 911
9-1-1
9-1-1 is the emergency telephone number for the North American Numbering Plan .It is one of eight N11 codes.The use of this number is for emergency circumstances only, and to use it for any other purpose can be a crime.-History:In the earliest days of telephone technology, prior to the...

 dispatcher
Dispatcher
Dispatchers are communications personnel responsible for receiving and transmitting pure and reliable messages, tracking vehicles and equipment, and recording other important information...

s. They are broken down into topics such as Criminals, Drivers, Daredevils, Partiers, etc. It features commentary from comedians and writers such as Roger Lodge
Roger Lodge
Roger Lodge is an American game show host, sports radio host, and actor.-Life and career:Lodge was born as Rogelio Chavez in Fontana, California and raised in Cerritos, California. Lodge currently serves as Executive Producer and host of HDNET's "CELEBRIDATE", scheduled to debut in October of 2011...

, Bryan Callen
Bryan Callen
Bryan Christopher Callen is an American actor. Callen is notable for being one of the original cast of comedians on the sketch comedy series MADtv.-Early life:...

, Judy Gold
Judy Gold
Judy Gold is an American stand-up comic and actor. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show...

, Ted Jessup
Ted Jessup
Ted Jessup is an American television writer, producer, and performer. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland where his father was serving with the U.S. State Department. He graduated from Hamilton College...

, Loni Love
Loni Love
Loni Love is an American comedian and actress. After quitting her job as an electrical engineer in 2003, Love began to pursue a career in stand up comedy...

, Brad Loekle
Brad Loekle
Brad Loekle is an American comedian. He started performing comedy routines after receiving a degree at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he majored in acting and music...

, Chelsea Peretti
Chelsea Peretti
Chelsea Peretti is an American comedian and writer based in Los Angeles.-Career:She and brother Jonah Peretti were co-creators of the and of web satire...

, Billy Kimball
Billy Kimball
-Personal life:He was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College where he was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon. He is currently married to the former Alexandra Manuela Vargas Hamilton and has two daughters.-Career:...

, Daisy Gardner
Daisy Gardner
Daisy Gardner is an American television writer who is best known for her work as a writer on the NBC series 30 Rock and Californication. She also appears on TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest... as a commentator....

, Nick DiPaolo
Nick DiPaolo
Nicholas Rocco "Nick" DiPaolo is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and radio host formerly on 92.3 Free FM in New York City until May 24, 2007, when the station changed formats. He is also a frequent guest on the Opie and Anthony and Howard Stern radio shows...

, John Enos
John Enos III
John Enos III is an American actor, known for the role of Bobby Marsino in the soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2003 to 2005. Enos' other screen credits include guest roles on NYPD Blue, Sex and the City , Melrose Place and Murder, She Wrote...

, Mike Trainor
Mike Trainor
Mike Trainor is an American stand-up comedian and writer. He provides commentary on the TruTV series The Smoking Gun Presents.-Personal life:...

, Chuck Nice
Chuck Nice
Chuck Nice is a stand up comic and radio personality from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nice was heard on The Radio Chick, a comedic show formerly on 92.3 Free FM in New York. The RadioChick is now a featured show on Shovio.com's TalkBackTV...

, Natasha Leggero
Natasha Leggero
Natasha Leggero is an American actress and stand-up comic from Rockford, Illinois.-Biography:Leggero began performing at age 10, in several Chicago plays. After graduating from high school, she moved to New York City to study at the Stella Adler Conservatory. While there, she also attended Hunter...

; as well as celebrities who have had their own brushes with the law, such as Daniel Baldwin
Daniel Baldwin
Daniel Leroy Baldwin is an American actor, producer and director. He is the second oldest of the four Baldwin brothers, all of whom are actors. Daniel Baldwin is known for his role as Detective Beau Felton in the popular NBC TV series Homicide: Life on the Street...

, Leif Garrett
Leif Garrett
Leif Garrett is an American singer and actor. He became famous in the late 1970s as a teen idol, but received much publicity in later life for his drug abuse and legal troubles.-Early life:...

, Todd Bridges
Todd Bridges
Todd Anthony Bridges is an American actor. He is best known for his childhood role as Willis Jackson on the NBC/ABC sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, and for his recurring role as Monk on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris...

, Tonya Harding
Tonya Harding
Tonya Maxine Harding is an American figure skating champion. In 1991 she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and placed second in the World Championships. She was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple axel jump in competition...

, Danny Bonaduce
Danny Bonaduce
Dante Daniel "Danny" Bonaduce is an American radio/television personality, comedian, professional wrestler, and former child actor...

, among others. The show holds a TV-14 rating due to strong language and comedic violence.

Often, sound effect
Sound effect
For the album by The Jam, see Sound Affects.Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media...

s and mock commentators are added to enhance the humor of the events.

In January 2011, the show slightly re-branded itself as "truTV Presents: World's Dumbest...", dropping the "Smoking Gun" branding.

Commentators

  • Jaime Andrews
  • Daniel Baldwin
    Daniel Baldwin
    Daniel Leroy Baldwin is an American actor, producer and director. He is the second oldest of the four Baldwin brothers, all of whom are actors. Daniel Baldwin is known for his role as Detective Beau Felton in the popular NBC TV series Homicide: Life on the Street...

  • Charles Barkley
    Charles Barkley
    Charles Wade Barkley is a former American professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Sir Charles" and "The Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's most dominating power forwards...

  • Bill Bastone
    William Bastone
    William Bastone is the editor of The Smoking Gun, and was an investigative journalist for The Village Voice. He also co-wrote a book titled The Smoking Gun: A Dossier of Secret, Surprising, and Salacious Documents....

  • Matt Bellace
  • Danny Bonaduce
    Danny Bonaduce
    Dante Daniel "Danny" Bonaduce is an American radio/television personality, comedian, professional wrestler, and former child actor...

  • Joe Brat
  • Mike Bridenstine
  • Todd Bridges
    Todd Bridges
    Todd Anthony Bridges is an American actor. He is best known for his childhood role as Willis Jackson on the NBC/ABC sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, and for his recurring role as Monk on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris...

  • Mike Britt
  • Michel Bryant
  • Alafair Burke
    Alafair Burke
    Alafair S. Burke is an American author, professor of law, and legal commentator. She is the author of two series of crime novels, one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, the other featuring Portland prosecutor Samantha Kincaid...

  • Gary Busey
    Gary Busey
    William Gary Busey , best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in a large variety of films, as well as making regular appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, and Entourage...

  • Richie Byrne
  • Bryan Callen
    Bryan Callen
    Bryan Christopher Callen is an American actor. Callen is notable for being one of the original cast of comedians on the sketch comedy series MADtv.-Early life:...

  • Chris Campion
  • Jessie Cantrell
  • Jean Casarez
    Jean Casarez
    Jean Casarez Born on April 20, 1960 in Mexico City, Mexico, is a truTV correspondent of live daytime trial coverage, reporting on courtroom trials across the country. Casarez has covered such cases as the Coral Eugene Watts trial, the Kobe Bryant rape case, and Scott Peterson sentencing hearings...

  • Hélio Castroneves
    Hélio Castroneves
    Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

  • Lee Child
    Lee Child
    Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....

  • Harlan Coben
    Harlan Coben
    Harlan Coben is an American author of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past and often have multiple plot twists...

  • Calvin Collins
  • Whitney Cummings
    Whitney Cummings
    Whitney Cummings is an American comedian and actress. She was formerly a cast member of the MTV television show Punk'd and currently stars in the NBC sitcom Whitney.-Early life:...

  • Adrianne Curry
  • Rob D'Alessandro
  • Rob Delaney
  • Wes Dening
    Wesley Dening
    Wesley Dening is an Australian television host and comedian, who became famous in Australia as a contestant on Big Brother Australia 2004....

  • Natalie Desselle-Reid
    Natalie Desselle-Reid
    Natalie Desselle-Reid is an American actress.Desselle-Reid was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, the daughter of Thelma and Paul Desselle. She graduated from Peabody Magnet High School and attended Grambling State University...

  • Dustin Diamond
    Dustin Diamond
    Dustin Neil Diamond is an American actor, musician, director, and stand-up comedian best known for his role as Samuel "Screech" Powers in the television shows Saved by the Bell, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, Saved by the Bell: The College Years and Saved by the Bell: The New Class.-Career:Diamond's...

  • Diane Dimond
    Diane Dimond
    Diane Dimond is a television journalist, reporter and host. She is best known for her work as a correspondent on Hard Copy, Extra, and Entertainment Tonight.-Career:...

  • Nick DiPaolo
    Nick DiPaolo
    Nicholas Rocco "Nick" DiPaolo is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and radio host formerly on 92.3 Free FM in New York City until May 24, 2007, when the station changed formats. He is also a frequent guest on the Opie and Anthony and Howard Stern radio shows...

  • John Enos
    John Enos III
    John Enos III is an American actor, known for the role of Bobby Marsino in the soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2003 to 2005. Enos' other screen credits include guest roles on NYPD Blue, Sex and the City , Melrose Place and Murder, She Wrote...

  • Mike Epps
    Mike Epps
    Michael Elliot "Mike" Epps is an American stand-up comedian, actor, film producer, writer, singer, and rapper. He is best known for playing Day-Day Jones in Next Friday and the sequel-to-the-sequel, Friday After Next, and also starring alongside Ice Cube in All About the Benjamins...

  • Susie Felber
  • Amy Fisher
    Amy Fisher
    Amy Elizabeth Fisher is an American woman who became known as "the Long Island Lolita" by the media in 1992, when, at the age of 17, she shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover Joey Buttafuoco...

  • Jami Floyd
  • Erin Foley
  • Jack Ford
  • Ardie Fuqua
  • Mike Gaboff
  • Dr. Jeff Gardere
  • Daisy Gardner
    Daisy Gardner
    Daisy Gardner is an American television writer who is best known for her work as a writer on the NBC series 30 Rock and Californication. She also appears on TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest... as a commentator....

  • Leif Garrett
    Leif Garrett
    Leif Garrett is an American singer and actor. He became famous in the late 1970s as a teen idol, but received much publicity in later life for his drug abuse and legal troubles.-Early life:...

  • Godfrey
    Godfrey (comedian)
    Godfrey C. Danchimah, Jr. , professionally known as Godfrey, is an American comedian and actor who has appeared on BET, VH1, Comedy Central, and feature films such as Soul Plane, Original Gangstas, Zoolander, and Johnson Family Vacation...

  • Judy Gold
    Judy Gold
    Judy Gold is an American stand-up comic and actor. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show...

  • Andrew Goldberg
  • Jessica Golden
  • Savannah Guthrie
    Savannah Guthrie
    Savannah Guthrie is an American journalist and attorney, working for NBC News.After serving as a White House correspondent between 2008 and 2011 and as co-anchor of the MSNBC program The Daily Rundown between 2010 and 2011, Guthrie was announced as the co-host of Todays third hour alongside...

  • Tonya Harding
    Tonya Harding
    Tonya Maxine Harding is an American figure skating champion. In 1991 she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and placed second in the World Championships. She was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple axel jump in competition...

  • Busty Heart
    Busty Heart
    Busty Heart is a television personality, big-bust model, and former stripper.-Television appearances:...

  • Dave Hill
    Dave Hill (comedian)
    Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, musician and actor. He hosts the stage show The Dave Hill Explosion at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and Hollywood and recently starred in the television show The King of Miami on the MOJO HD network. The show is now airing on Film24 in the UK....

  • Melinda Hill
  • Will Hines
  • Dave Holmes
    Dave Holmes
    David Robert "Dave" Holmes is a television personality who gained national attention as the runner-up on MTV's first Wanna Be a VJ contest in 1998. From the beginning, he distinguished himself from other candidates with an encyclopedic knowledge of music trivia.Despite his loss to Jesse Camp, MTV...

  • Adam Hunter
  • Rachel Hunter
    Rachel Hunter
    Rachel Hunter is a New Zealand born American model, actress and reality TV show host who now resides in the U.S. She is best known for her appearance in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues and her longtime marriage to singer Rod Stewart, which ended in 2006...

  • Charlie Huston
    Charlie Huston
    Charlie Huston is an American author of crime novels and superhero comic books. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Virginia Louise Smith...

  • Ted Jessup
    Ted Jessup
    Ted Jessup is an American television writer, producer, and performer. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland where his father was serving with the U.S. State Department. He graduated from Hamilton College...

  • Shirley Jones
    Shirley Jones
    Shirley Mae Jones is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. In her six decades of television, she starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma! , Carousel , and The Music Man...

  • AJ Khubani
  • Billy Kimball
    Billy Kimball
    -Personal life:He was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College where he was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon. He is currently married to the former Alexandra Manuela Vargas Hamilton and has two daughters.-Career:...

  • Rikki Klieman
    Rikki Klieman
    Rikki Klieman is an American criminal defense lawyer and TV personality for TruTV. A native of Chicago, she worked in criminal defense in Boston and taught at Columbia Law School before moving to the entertainment field...

  • Lynne Koplitz
    Lynne Koplitz
    Lynne Koplitz is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Born June 13, 1969 in Long Island, New York, USA and raised in Sarasota, Florida. She was host of Telepictures' nationally syndicated dating show Change of Heart, guest host on NBC's Later, co-host of the Food Network's How to Boil...

  • Michael Kosta
  • Jo Koy
    Jo Koy
    Jo Koy is an American stand-up comic. He is currently touring the college circuit as a featured comedian and performs in clubs across the country. He is often a panelist on E!'s late night show Chelsea Lately.- Early life :Koy is of Filipino and Caucasian heritage...

  • Ron Kuby
    Ron Kuby
    Ronald L. Kuby is a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer, radio talk show host and TV commentator. He has hosted radio programs on WABC Radio in New York and Air America Radio.-Beginnings:...

  • Lauren Lake
  • Ali Landry
    Ali Landry
    Ali Germaine Landry is a former Miss USA , model and actress. She is perhaps best known as the Doritos Girl from her 1998 Super Bowl commercial, and for her portrayal of Rita Lefleur on the UPN sitcom Eve. In 1998, she was named by People magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world.-...

  • Natasha Leggero
    Natasha Leggero
    Natasha Leggero is an American actress and stand-up comic from Rockford, Illinois.-Biography:Leggero began performing at age 10, in several Chicago plays. After graduating from high school, she moved to New York City to study at the Stella Adler Conservatory. While there, she also attended Hunter...

  • Roger Lodge
    Roger Lodge
    Roger Lodge is an American game show host, sports radio host, and actor.-Life and career:Lodge was born as Rogelio Chavez in Fontana, California and raised in Cerritos, California. Lodge currently serves as Executive Producer and host of HDNET's "CELEBRIDATE", scheduled to debut in October of 2011...

  • Brad Loekle
    Brad Loekle
    Brad Loekle is an American comedian. He started performing comedy routines after receiving a degree at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he majored in acting and music...

  • Michael Loftus
  • Judge Maria Lopez
    Maria Lopez
    Maria Lopez is a Cuban-American former judge and a former television jurist on the syndicated television show Judge Maria Lopez....

  • Loni Love
    Loni Love
    Loni Love is an American comedian and actress. After quitting her job as an electrical engineer in 2003, Love began to pursue a career in stand up comedy...

  • Dr. Robi Ludwig
    Robi Ludwig
    Robi Ludwig is a psychotherapist and host of the reality television program, One Week to Save Your Marriage on TLC and Without Prejudice? on GSN. Dr...

  • Chuck Mango
  • Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth
    Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth
    Omaroseonee Manigault-Stallworth , usually known simply as Omarosa, is a two-time participant on Donald Trump's television reality show The Apprentice.-Early life:Manigault-Stallworth was born in Youngstown, Ohio...

  • Darren Manning
    Darren Manning
    Darren Manning is a motor racing driver, most recently racing in the IRL IndyCar Series for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing.-Early career:...

  • Lenny Marcus
  • Kevin McCaffrey
  • Tom McCaffrey
  • Kelli McCarty
    Kelli McCarty
    Kelli McCarty is an American model, actress and adult film performer who was crowned Miss USA in 1991.-Career:McCarty won the Miss USA beauty contest in 1991, competing as Miss Kansas USA...

  • Jonny McGovern
    Jonny McGovern
    Jonny McGovern , also known by his character name The Gay Pimp, is an American stand-up comedian, musician and podcaster. He has recorded three albums as comedic singer The Gay Pimp, and is also a cast member of Logo's The Big Gay Sketch Show.-Early life:Jonny McGovern was born to Mary McGovern and...

  • Wendi McLendon-Covey
    Wendi McLendon-Covey
    Wendi McLendon-Covey is an American actress, writer, producer and comedian. She is known for roles on television shows, such as Reno 911! and Rules of Engagement . She is also known for her role in the 2011 hit film Bridesmaids.-Personal life:McLendon-Covey was born Wendy Anne McLendon in...

  • Jimmy McMillan
    Jimmy McMillan
    James "Jimmy" McMillan III is an American political activist, perennial candidate, Vietnam War veteran, and karate expert, as well as a former postal worker and private investigator from Brooklyn, New York. He is best known as the founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, a New York-based...

  • Paul Mecurio
  • Andy Milonakis
    Andy Milonakis
    Andrew Michael "Andy" Milonakis is an American actor, writer, rapper, and comedian of Greek descent best known for creating and starring in The Andy Milonakis Show on MTV and MTV2.-Life and career:...

  • Scott Nevins
  • Chuck Nice
    Chuck Nice
    Chuck Nice is a stand up comic and radio personality from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nice was heard on The Radio Chick, a comedic show formerly on 92.3 Free FM in New York. The RadioChick is now a featured show on Shovio.com's TalkBackTV...

  • Ryan Oakes
  • Tom O'Riordan
  • Matt Pack
  • Vinny Parco
    Parco P.I.
    Parco P.I. was a reality television program that airs on Court TV. The series was about the cases of New York City-based private investigator Vincent "Vinny" Parco, his family, his daughter Dani Parco, his twin sons Chris Parco and Vincent Parco Jr., Rho and a number of the female investigators who...

  • Matt Passet
  • Christina Pazsitzky
    Christina Pazsitzky
    Christina Pazsitzky is a Stand Up Comedian and Writer who appears regularly on the E! show "Chelsea Lately". She was a cast member of MTV's Road Rules Australia and also made an appearance on the Real World/Road Rules Challenge Battle of the Sexes...

  • Mike Paul
    Mike Paul (businessman)
    Michael Gregory Paul is an American public relations consultant.He is founder and President of MGP & Associates PR, a public relations and reputation management firm, based in New York.-External links:*...

  • Chelsea Peretti
    Chelsea Peretti
    Chelsea Peretti is an American comedian and writer based in Los Angeles.-Career:She and brother Jonah Peretti were co-creators of the and of web satire...

  • Luis "Lou" Pizarro
  • Sonia Pizarro
  • Brad "Chip" Pope
  • Michael Psenicska
  • Laurie Puhn
    Laurie Puhn
    Laurie Puhn is an American writer, family and divorce lawyer-mediator and television personality. She hosted i on New York, on WPXN-TV from 2006-2007....

  • Sean Quinn
  • Keith Robinson
  • Adam Sank
  • Streeter Seidell
    Streeter Seidell
    Streeter Seidell is an American comedian, writer, actor, and TV host. Seidell first gained popularity as part of the cast of CollegeHumor’s online skits, although he has written and edited the site’s front page before then...

  • Mickey Sherman
    Mickey Sherman
    Michael "Mickey" Sherman, a criminal-defense attorney who has represented some famous clients, often appeared as a legal analyst on cable television talk shows. In June 2010, Sherman plead guilty for failing to pay more than $1.1 million in federal taxes....

  • Tom Shillue
  • Ron Shirley
  • Marianne Sierk
  • Curtis Sliwa
    Curtis Sliwa
    Curtis Sliwa is an American anti-crime activist, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, and radio talk show host and media personality.-Guardian Angels:...

  • Ken Stafford
  • Frank Stallone
    Frank Stallone
    Frank P. Stallone, Jr. is an American actor, singer/guitarist and Golden Globe and Grammy Award-nominated songwriter. He has appeared in many Hollywood films and television. He is the younger brother of Sylvester Stallone.-Early life:...

  • Karrine Steffans
    Karrine Steffans
    Karrine Steffans is an American author, most notably of the Vixen series of books. She has worked as an actress and as a hip hop model, having appeared in more than 20 music videos, many by multiplatinum-selling rap artists...

  • Anthony Sullivan
  • Alan Thicke
    Alan Thicke
    Alan Thicke is a Canadian actor, songwriter, and game and talk show host. He is best known for his role as Jason Seaver, the patriarch on the ABC television series Growing Pains.- Early life :...

  • Mike Trainor
    Mike Trainor
    Mike Trainor is an American stand-up comedian and writer. He provides commentary on the TruTV series The Smoking Gun Presents.-Personal life:...

  • Verne Troyer
    Verne Troyer
    Verne J. Troyer is an American stand-up comedian, actor, stuntman and performer, best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series...

  • Osi Umenyiora
    Osi Umenyiora
    -2003:Umenyiora was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the New York Giants out of Troy State University, now Troy University. He was number 72. As a rookie in 2003, he played in 13 games with one start.-2005:...

  • Bruce Vilanch
    Bruce Vilanch
    Bruce Vilanch is an American comedy writer, songwriter and actor. He is a six-time Emmy Award-winner Vilanch is best known to the public for his four-year stint on Hollywood Squares, as a celebrity participant; in the entertainment industry he is best known as head writer for the show...

  • Rich Vos
    Rich Vos
    Richard Ira "Rich" Vos is an American comedian. Originally from Plainfield, New Jersey, Vos has been a working stand-up for decades. Colin Quinn described Vos in his early days as a "Jersey Hack"....

  • Dr. Belisa Vranich
  • Jimmie Walker
    Jimmie Walker
    James Carter "Jimmie" Walker is an American actor and stand-up comedian, known for portraying J. J. Evans on the television series Good Times, which ran from 1974 to 1979...

  • Brendon Walsh
  • Tricia Walsh Smith
  • Dan Wheldon
    Dan Wheldon
    Daniel Clive "Dan" Wheldon was a British racing driver from England. He was the 2005 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series champion, and winner of the Indianapolis 500 in both 2005 and 2011...

  • Chris Williams
    Chris Williams (actor)
    -Career:Williams, a graduate of Georgetown University, has made appearances on numerous television shows such as CSI, JAG, The Shield, Weeds, Reno 911!, Californication, and popularly as fictional rap artist Krazee-Eyez Killa on Curb Your Enthusiasm...

  • Judge David Young
  • Tawya Young
  • Wally Zeis
  • Tom McCaffrey


Among these, Rob D'Alessandro (Partiers 5), Mike Gadoff (Daredevils), Calvin Collins (Criminals 17), and Busty Heart (Performers 2) spoke about clips in which they had appeared. Rob and Osi also appeared in a parody of the popular Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...

 commercial with "Mean" Joe Greene
Joe Greene (American football)
Charles Edward Greene, known as “Mean Joe” Greene, is a former all-pro American football defensive tackle who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL. Throughout the early 1970s he was the one of most dominant defensive players in the National Football League...

. The Pizarros are from the TruTV show Operation Repo
Operation Repo
Operation Repo is an American television program that depicts the world of car repossession with a team that portrays fictionalized tales of repossessions from California's San Fernando Valley. Similar to another truTV show, Southern Fried Stings, the series is filmed in a cinema verité style but...

.

Themes

Each episode features twenty clips focusing on one of several recurring themes
Theme (arts)
In the visual arts, a theme is a broad idea or a message conveyed by a work, such as a performance, a painting, or a motion picture. This message is usually about life, society or human nature. Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a work. Themes are usually implied...

:
Theme Title # of Episodes
Animal Encounters 1 episode
Bracket ShowdownAired on March 31, 2011, clips from several previous episodes were presented in a bracket-style competition
Single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

 as a representation of March Madness
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...

. Charles Barkley appeared as a guest commentator for the episode.
1 episode
Brawlers 8 episodes
Competitions 5 episodes
Confrontations 1 episode
Criminals 25 episodes
Daredevils 12 episodes
Drivers 22 episodes
Employees 1 episode
Fans 1 episode
Heroes 1 episode
Hillbillies 2 episodes
Holidays 1 episode
InventionsRetitled, "World's Smartest Inventions" 5 episodes
Lovers 3 episodes
Meltdowns 1 episode
Motorheads 4 episodes
Outlaws 4 episodes
Partiers 16 episodes
Performers 10 episodes
Pranksters 1 episode
Record Breakers 6 episodes
Shoppers 1 episode
Thrill-Seekers 3 episodes
Tourists 2 episodes


Professor Tonya Harding

Tonya Harding
Tonya Harding
Tonya Maxine Harding is an American figure skating champion. In 1991 she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and placed second in the World Championships. She was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple axel jump in competition...

 has her own segment on some episodes of World's Dumbest. After the short intro is played, Harding (dressed in an ill-fitting lab coat) says, "Oh, crap! That's me!" Before a clip is played, Harding gives viewers a brief lesson on a few related topics such as fermentation, gravity balance, etc.

Story time with Gary Busey

This segment featured Gary Busey
Gary Busey
William Gary Busey , best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in a large variety of films, as well as making regular appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, and Entourage...

 set in a chair next to a fireplace, with a book, presenting the audience a story about the film clip being shown, usually with Gary giving his own insights and philosophical advice in regards to the people in the clip (much to the annoyance of the other commentators).

TSG 911 Center

A commentator is sitting in a 911 operating room and gets very weird calls. The calls are described as a cartoon most of the time. Example: A stressed woman calls 911 because she thought that was the number for "Nanny 911". Sometimes, old episode clips will be replaced with these.

After Dark

This segment features Bryan Callen
Bryan Callen
Bryan Christopher Callen is an American actor. Callen is notable for being one of the original cast of comedians on the sketch comedy series MADtv.-Early life:...

 as he shows supposedly "sexy" clips that most of the other commentators find completely unerotic. Examples include: People bathing in chocolate, a nude couple (shown from a helicopter camera so that nudity is barely shown) throwing rocks over a bridge into oncoming traffic, and an old woman pulling on a robber's "man parts
Sex organ
A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, as narrowly defined, is any of the anatomical parts of the body which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism; flowers are the reproductive organs of flowering plants, cones are the reproductive...

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Game Shows

Roger Lodge usually appears as a host for a game show. Examples include: "What's in the bag?" (Criminals 13), "Guess What Happens Next" (Daredevils 4), etc.

America's Dumbest Home Videos

Roger Lodge also appears on this segment. Spoofing the Bob Saget
Bob Saget
Robert Lane "Bob" Saget is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host. Although he is best known for his roles as Danny Tanner in Full House, host of America's Funniest Home Videos and Future Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother, Saget is also known outside of television for his blue...

 era of America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Funniest Home Videos is an American reality television program on ABC in which viewers are able to send in humorous homemade videotapes. The most common videos usually feature slapstick physical comedy arising from incidents, accidents and mishaps...

, Lodge showcases hilarious moments caught on tape. Other panelists appear as audience members laughing hysterically. The spoof AFHV logo (as well as the graphics) resembles the logo for the original 1989 Thanksgiving special more than the actual logo used in the Saget era.

Outtakes

Each episode usually ends with quirky outtakes of the panelists. Some of the recurring moments are Judy Gold constantly being fidgeted with by the make-up crew much to her annoyance, and cast members interacting with the camera crew.
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