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Yo Momma
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| Yo Momma | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality TV Game Show |
| Created by | Wilmer Valderrama |
| Developed by | HBO |
| Presented by | Wilmer Valderrama Jason Everhart Sam Sarpong (Seasons 1 and 2) Destiny Lightsy (Season 3) |
| Starring | Wilmer Valderrama |
| Narrated by | Big Boy |
| Opening theme | "Ya' Mama" (remix) by The Pharcyde |
| Country of origin | U.S./Australia/UK |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 64 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Dean Minerd, Rod Aissa, Wilmer Valderrama |
| Producer(s) | Lisa Lettunich, Jonathan Cane, Ross Breitenbach, |
| Location(s) | USA |
| Running time | 30 mins |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | MTV |
| Picture format | 4:3 (Seasons 1, 2) 16:9 (Season 3) |
| Original run | April 3, 2006 – |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Yo Momma is an American reality television game show created, executive produced and hosted by Wilmer Valderrama, along with Sam Sarpong (Seasons 1 and 2), Jason Everhart and Destiny Lightsy.
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After four weeks of competition, the winners are invited back again to determine an ultimate winner from the city, who would receive an additional $5,000.
As is the case for the "Best of the Week", the four weekly winners start by taunting their competitors in a free-for-all freestyle, after which the host chooses the best and he/she calls another of the contestants. The other two are paired. The pairs play dozens in freestyle until one is declared the winner by the jury panel, which are the weekly runners-ups' mothers. After two rounds (described in each season), a final knockout joke section is played, and after this, the crew chooses the winner.
Harp, who quickly gained popularity early on in the series with his high-pitched voice and physical antics while doing his jokes, beat Vakisha in the first round and Chuck defeated D.Redd in the other semifinal, judged by the mommas of the weekly Los Angeles runner-ups.
The first round of the finals was "Joke 'Til You Choke", where they made jokes on each other until one "chokes", as in cannot make up a retort. The second randomly paired two of the weekly runner-ups, and after one of the runner-ups insulted a finalist, the finalist then "bagged" on that runner-up. Then the knockout joke was played. Harp was declared the winner of the final dressed for the occasion, dressed with a blue cape and boxing gloves which read "Yo Momma" when put together.
BGB strategy was to declare this his opponent's momma was missing a given body part. He would then act out how she looks performing a simple task requiring said part of body.
Example: Yo' momma got no legs, talkin' bout playin soccer like this (BGB gets on knees and hops around).
In the freestyle round, Boomshard called out Cutless leaving the two others, BGB and Jonny Mal to face off. Like Season One, the runner-ups' moms are selected as the jury. Boomshard had consistency throughout his battle defeating Cutless 3-1. BGB's creativity won the affection of the "mommas", defeating Jonny Mal with also a score of 3-1. Yo mamma went to college
The first round of the final battle is called "New York City" where both competitors ping-pong jokes only relevant to NYC. The second round is the commonly known round "Joke Til You Choke" and finally the Knock-Out round. It was perhaps the craziest, most unpredictable battle in the history of Yo Momma, the final battle was close and only one pause determined the winner.
In the end, BGB reigned as New York City's undisputed top trash-talker, saying in his knockout that Boomshard's mom was so dumb, she bought Nick Cannon's latest album. The insult earned BGB $5000 and a Gateway laptop computer. Unlike Season One, Wilmer was so impressed with the final battle that he paid Boomshard $1000 despite losing because of his delivery and energy.
Winner: TBA
The winner was going to be chosen in February 2008, but has been changed to April 2008. The winner might be chosen in the fall of 2008 because the contestants can't be brought together.
- Week One: Method Man
- Week Two: Mike Jones
- Week Three: Chingy
- Week Four: Ne-Yo
- Best of LA: The mommas were selected as the jury
- Week One (Brooklyn): Jadakiss
- Week Two (Manhattan): E-40
- Week Three (Bronx): Fat Joe
- Week Four (Queens): Chamilionaire
- Best of NY: As was the case in Season One, the mommas of the weekly runner-ups were jury members.
- Week One: Ying Yang Twins
- Week Two: Bow Wow
- Week Three: Jermaine Dupri
- Week Four: Frankie J
- Best of Atlanta: Again, the mommas of the weekly runner-ups served as the jury for the head-to-head semi-finals.
In conjunction with Yo Momma, MTV launched YoMomma.tv, a Web 2.0 community dedicated to increasing viewer engagement with the program, and heavily promoted during Yo Momma episodes. Site users construct a profile and upload their own Yo Momma jokes (or "disses"), and attempt to boost their rankings on the site by challenging other users to "Battles," exchanges of uploaded disses between two users. Both disses and Battles are voted on by the user community.
A corollary feature is "Let's Bully," which allows users to send insults over e-mail using an avatar of the user's face superimposed over modifiable clip art. The Let's Bully feature was the subject of a recent article in Adweek Magazine. Example of a Yo Momma: Yo Momma so fat that when she farted in a swimming pool, she made Crystal Geyser