Television series
Tosh.0
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Tosh.0 is a comedy series built around viral videos and internet culture, hosted by Daniel Tosh. Each episode strings together clips of people doing ridiculous, dangerous, or mortifying things online, punctuated by Tosh's sardonic commentary and studio sketches. It's designed as background entertainment—the kind of show you half-watch while scrolling your phone—that rewards short attention spans. For people who enjoy pointing and laughing at others' misfortune, this was cable comfort food.
Should you watch it?
Watch it if you enjoy watching internet nonsense get picked apart by a host who roasts the people in the clips without much mercy, and you laugh harder at cruelty than at cleverness.
Skip it if you want a show with a plot or much restraint, since it is a rapid-fire stack of clips and some crude bits land flat.
What it asks of you: Half-hour episodes that hop from clip to clip at a scroller's pace, with nothing to carry over from one week to the next.
Not sure? Find tonight's pick in a minute.
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America's Funniest Home Videos1990
The DNA ancestor of viral video comedy. AFV proved audiences would watch ordinary people fail spectacularly for thirty minutes, but with a gentler, more family-friendly edge than Tosh ever attempted.
But It's toothless by comparison. The humor relies on sentimentality and cute kids, which feels quaint if you're drawn to Tosh's meaner streak.
Ridiculousness2011
Rob Dyrdek does the exact same job—introducing viral clips and riffing on them—but with genuine camaraderie and a skate-culture irreverence that feels less cynical. The chemistry between the hosts actually matters here.
But If you came for contempt, you'll find warmth instead. The show likes its subjects in a way Tosh.0 actively didn't.
Jackass2000
The spiritual godfather of internet schadenfreude. Self-inflicted stunts and pain, but performed by the guys who conceived them, not strangers being mocked for clicking wrong. Far more anarchic and inventive.
But It's deliberately nasty and repetitive by design. If you want clever editing and structure, you won't find it here—that's partly the point.
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The wildcard
Something you would not have found on your own.
Nathan for You2013
Both mine real-world humiliation for comedy, but Nathan for You interrogates why that's funny and what it means, rather than just indulging it. It's Tosh.0 with a conscience and a nervous breakdown.
Nathan Fielding poses as a business consultant and builds increasingly elaborate schemes to help struggling small businesses. The comedy comes from watching real people react to absurdity in real time, but Fielding's narration is pathological and vulnerable rather than mocking. Brilliant and utterly strange.
But It's uncomfortably dark and relies on duping ordinary people for laughs. Some sketches feel genuinely cruel, and the humor requires patience—nothing lands immediately. It's also frequently painfully awkward.
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Punk'd2003
Takes the schadenfreude template but applies it to celebrities, adding the frisson of watching famous people genuinely rattled. The pranks are more elaborate and often surprisingly creative.
But The premise wears thin fast. After the initial gotcha, there's not much beneath the surface, and the tone can feel mean-spirited toward people who didn't consent to being mocked.
Rubber2010
Both celebrate the delightful arbitrariness of the internet—the idea that something can exist for no reason and be entertaining purely because of its weirdness. Rubber is what peak-internet energy looks like as a feature film.
A sentient killer tire rolls through the desert murdering people. It's an absurdist horror-comedy that plays its premise completely straight and is visually inventive in ways that feel like viral-video logic scaled up to feature length. Weird, funny, confident in its stupidity.
But It's deliberately artificial and self-aware about being ridiculous. If you want grounded storytelling or character development, you will not find it. Some people find it more precious than funny.
People
Cast
Writing
- Daniel ToshCreator
Production
- Daniel ToshExecutive Producer
- Mike GibbonsExecutive Producer
- Scott ZabielskiSupervising Producer
Recommended by
Ridiculousness, Impractical Jokers, Rob & Big, Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory