NBC Super Bloopers & New Practical Jokes with Jason Bateman TV Commercial – May 1988

TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes is an American television program. Debuting as a weekly series, new episodes have been broadcast as infrequent specials during most of its run. It premiered on NBC in 1984, moved to ABC in 1998, and was revived in syndication in 2012. The NBC run of the series was co-produced by Carson Productions and Dick Clark Productions (Known in the end credits as the C&C Joint Venture), and the ABC and syndication runs have been produced solely by Dick Clark Productions.

The weekly series ended in 1986. In 1988, Clark revived it as a series of specials retitled as Super Bloopers and New Practical Jokes, and returned with McMahon as co-hosts. Titles of the specials included TV’s Censored Bloopers in 1993, and simply Bloopers, as the practical joke element was ultimately dropped. These specials aired irregularly on NBC until as late as 1998, often appearing as “filler” for cancelled series, and acting as a low-cost summer replacement series; the series even briefly returned to a weekly format in 1998 (as TV Censored Bloopers 98) with Suzanne Whang as co-host.[1] The specials often drew a larger audience than their competition, which consisted mainly of reruns.

In the later years of the series’ run on NBC, the bloopers shown tended to be drawn mostly from programs produced by NBC.

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Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Michael Bluth in the Fox / Netflix sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2019) and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022), as well as for his work in numerous comedy films. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Bateman began his career as a child actor, appearing on television in the early 1980s on shows such as the NBC drama series Little House on the Prairie from 1981 to 1982 and The Hogan Family from 1986 to 1991. Bateman’s early film roles include Teen Wolf Too (1987) and Necessary Roughness (1991) before taking supporting roles in The Break-Up (2006), Juno (2007), Hancock (2008), and Up in the Air (2009).

He filled starring roles in the comedies The Switch (2010), The Change-Up (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011), Identity Thief (2013), This Is Where I Leave You (2014), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), Office Christmas Party (2016), Zootopia (2016), and Game Night (2018). He also played dramatic roles in The Gift (2015), The Outsider (2020), Air (2023), and Carry-On (2024).

Bateman made his directorial debut with an episode of The Hogan Family, at the time setting the record for the youngest director in the Directors Guild of America. He has since directed and starred in The Family Fang (2015) and Ozark. Bateman was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2019 for his direction on Ozark.

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Video preservation by DDVF.com for educational purposes. Original airdate was May 1988.