His name was Art.
He hosted a TV show called “People Are Funny.”
It was back in the 1950s when TV was heavily censored.
The guests from the audience would end up doing crazy stunts.

There were other shows like that.
“Candid Camera” would set up situations for unsuspecting people, kind of like “Punk’d” decades later.
Bob Barker, before hosting “The Price Is Right,” hosted “Truth or Consequences,” where–you guessed it–people would do crazy things.

It’s hard to laugh right now.
A lot of people are trying to be funny.
Some of them actually are.
But others are saying and doing cruel things to get cheap laughs.
I’m not laughing.