Just Kidding (TV series)

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Just Kidding
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Pierre Girard; Jacques Chevalier;
Based on	Just for Laughs
Presented by	Zach Fox ; Jason Earles ; Tyrel Jackson Williams ; Calum Worthy
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	Silent
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	42
Production
Production location	Canada
Running time	22:38
Original release
Network	Teletoon
Release	February 3, 2013 –; November 30, 2014
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Just Kidding is a Canadian hidden camera reality television series that first aired on February 3, 2013 on its Canadian channel, Teletoon, and November 19, 2012 on Disney XD. It is not broadcast on Télétoon due to TVA's broadcasting rights of the series in French-Canadian territories. However, on September 1, 2015, the series moved over to La Chaîne Disney. The series has also been broadcast in the UK (CBBC), France, Australia, Poland, Brazil, Spain, Norway, Turkey, and Sweden. Unlike the international versions, the Disney XD version is hosted by YouTube sensation Zach Fox, and the Disney XD stars Jason Earles and Tyrel Jackson Williams, and since 2014, is hosted by the Disney Channel star Calum Worthy. In 2014, Just Kidding (along with other live-action Teletoon shows, My Babysitter's a Vampire and R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour) moved from Teletoon to YTV. The series was cancelled on November 30, 2014.

The show is loosely based on Just for Laughs Gags (which is itself based on the American show Candid Camera^[1]), with some inspiration from René Cardona's La risa en vacaciones series to boot, only this show's premise focuses on kids pulling jokes. The series plays with no written dialogue, apart from the main theme which gives the impression that all the kids share the hosting position.

^ Just for Laughs: Gags Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine "This crazy Quebec-based troupe uses the city as its stage, and its inhabitants, or victims, as characters! People are caught in a twisted yet funny web of comedic deception. This updated Candid Camera is a tad more risque and a little kookier with its practical jokes. The little snippets last only a few minutes, and some look more painful than others."

[1] Just for Laughs: Gags Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine "This crazy Quebec-based troupe uses the city as its stage, and its inhabitants, or victims, as characters! People are caught in a twisted yet funny web of comedic deception. This updated Candid Camera is a tad more risque and a little kookier with its practical jokes. The little snippets last only a few minutes, and some look more painful than others."

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