Candid Camera Classic: Sideways Elevator!

[@moyovusumuzi3828]

I love the patience the second guy has. Ha ha. I'd have looked for the stairs after the second try.

[@ser132]

that's what I was saying. Just take the stairs, b'y.

[@FrankBullitt390]

Felt bad for him, looked like he was there for a job interview and the elevator bs was making him late

[@Blyfh]

I think after a while it's not about getting to your destination, but understanding what the hell is going on.

[@jayniekinser7029]

I would’ve looked for the stairs. I feel sorry for these people. I don’t like tricking people.

[@Mehwhatevr]

@@FrankBullitt390 I love this prank. I’m just concerned about people whose time has been wasted. They had to be convinced to come to this building somehow. One woman looks like she’s delivering flowers. Like maybe they’re running their businesses and the postman trying to do his job.

[@cademancaden]

I could watch these kinds of pranks all day

[@kati-ana]

After the third time I would've just taken the stairs. These people and their patiences is commendable.

[@unnamedchannel1237]

Third time ? After the first time .

[@Nick-NY]

Such a great show. I miss it.

[@danneumann3274]

It reminds us of a better time doesnt it?

[@DonTruman]

LOL, good one. Took a lot to set that up, I presume, to make it slide smoothly and look and feel convincing, but worth it. I think that would have driven me insane, until being relieved by knowing it was a gag.

[@ahmedhassan129]

Thanks to Home Depot.

[@MyMy-zi7yv]

I'm not sure but I don't think the people were fooled at all thinking they were going up or down. They were blown away wondering why they were going from side to side but yet people were coming out as if they had just ascended or descended from a floor. But it was a very creative CC.

[@QueenStylin]

Yeah I would have cried. I get distressed easily. But would laugh out of relief.

[@ser132]

yeah, I think I would have just taken the stairs after the second try.

[@Akkodha-]

@@ser132 lol no kidding,mad going up stairs but at least I’m going

[@amandaleeborchert3745]

Absolutely hilarious! I miss Candid Camera sooooo much!🌹

[@MyMy-zi7yv]

I never, ever even knew they had a redo of the 60's show. This one is funnier than the 60's version, but I think it had to do with more money put into it, and looser restrictions, technology to the point to where you could do more things, but most of all, more creativity and deviousness, lol.

[@amandaleeborchert3745]

@@MyMy-zi7yv Yes, they kept it in the family all those years. Miss it sooooo much. Good wholesome fun. Have a wonderful night.🌹

[@Dreamskater100]

@@amandaleeborchert3745 Wholesale?! Do you mean wholesome?!! Yeah, I miss it too & this era. Peter & his voice.

[@amandaleeborchert3745]

@@Dreamskater100 Oops! Yes wholesome is what I meant. Thank you for correcting me. Have a great day!🌹

[@Dreamskater100]

@@amandaleeborchert3745 Ha ha! no big deal, really! I like wholesales too! . You too have a great day!

[@EricaChavira-on4oz]

Awe Suzanne’s laugh 😢 she was so funny and this show is hysterical. Good times my friend, good times. 🫶🏽

[@Jaycee.79]

The simplest pranks are often the most hilarious!

[@JustAboutAnything66]

While that is true, I wouldn't call this simple, would you? It's fairly elaborate.

[@Julie-kb3mo]

😊 I love Suzanne"s laughter as Peter is explaining to us while they're also watching,💗

[@corneilcorneil]

Really? I hate it, so fake.

[@Julie-kb3mo]

@@corneilcorneil Hmmm. I disagree. I believe she finds it FUNNY ! 😊 I don't always hear her laughing in the background as Peter is narrating. Again, to me, she seems genuinely amused by it all.

[@corneilcorneil]

@@Julie-kb3mo It is her JOB. Even when she finds it total boring, she HAVE TO laugh.

[@Julie-kb3mo]

@@corneilcorneil All right.

[@Diana-gn8rp]

I found it annoying and distracting.

[@stuartholden6163]

The effort it took to create this

[@VioletJoy]

The look on their faces. 😂 That one guy was very patient. Nice job from the construction team. I wonder what it felt like riding in that thing. Lol. Great show!

[@azchick7938]

This is one of the best ones ever! Never seen this one!

[@MrQbenDanny]

Definitely ALLEN FUNT approved 👌!!!

[@DBR00]

Peter would say that it goes sideways for your convenience. :)

[@JPMJPM]

Yes! 😂😂😂

[@NyanyiC]

I now write - for your convenience wherever possible in professional emails 😁

[@Mehwhatevr]

I’ve been binge watching these, this is the best one. This one is by far the best. Assuming that you don’t have a view of the entrance, I would’ve been moving things around in the room to doublecheck that I was indeed showing up in the same room.

[@tylerbonser7686]

Glad I still find candids that I haven't seen.

[@ILikeYouUC]

One of my top 10 favorite bits of ALL time =)

[@carrolltucker]

EPIC!!!!! very expensive prank but is absolutely the BEST prank ever 👍🤣🤣

[@r.p.mcmurphy6623]

Ever? Nah...

[@carrolltucker]

Still the best ever!!!

[@RhaegarTargaryen1st]

I love Suzanne's laugh.

[@RayRay-rk5bd]

What elaborate setup.Now this is comedy.

[@gretchendietz1599]

I can't believe how many times that guy got on that elevator. I would have taken the stairs after the 2nd time.

[@ssrikantphotographer]

Full marks to that guy. He didn't give up till the end. 😄

[@owmeow]

Laughed so hard!! I love this channel so much. :) Thanks for the laughs!!!!

[@veronicacanchola5283]

The second guy is my cousin 😂 this was around 1998 or 99 I think

[@curtisclark5756]

This episode has always killed me because its so simple and hilarious 😂 tell him hes a good sport

[@thecommission6662]

2001.

[@jothePianoMaster13]

Doubt

[@jay-nq6ii]

​@@jothePianoMaster13 X

[@notinmyUSMC]

The amount of effort that goes into a prank like that shows how committed the CC team is to their mission. BTW, I'm half way through Peter's new (only?) book. It is a fun read!

[@peterfunt8622]

Hey, thanks for watching AND reading! That means a lot. -Peter

[@NyanyiC]

Thank you for the book review, I hope to buy a copy next year

[@aaahtex902]

**ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS VIDEO = EXACTLY THE EPITOME OF FUNNY = WHY YOU'VE ENDURED!!! = LOVE +++ GOD BLESS CANDID CAMERA!!!**

[@rendezvous5784]

Hilarious! Thanks for the chuckle and of course... the smile!

[@kymkkm1078]

Very creative ....one of the best.

[@amytaylor3715]

Kate is my absolute favorite! I wish she was in all of them!!

[@DwayneSims-j5j]

This guy @0:54 was very patient and probably needing to get to his job interview!!🤭 That poor fellow! Those gears were grinding!!🤔

[@bradowen8862]

very funny and very creative

[@rid1coza]

Now this is a good prank and well set up to handle different scenarios, and lol at the guy for trying to hide from the camera in the end even though he was on it all the time!

[@miamidolphinsfan]

this was hilarious LOLOLOL

[@johnyoung2702]

Boss "Why were you late?" Guy " The elevator would only go sideways"

[@mulleralem1397]

The best one ever. So funny 🤣 😆 😄

[@jimpatriot6918]

That was great! 🤣

[@JPMJPM]

This prank is as good as the black and white show. 👏👏👏

[@r.p.mcmurphy6623]

I use the Settings and watch them all in B/W

[@Alpha8713]

I hope that the Botwick Company has elevators like this.

[@tammyhollandsworth6783]

That was a good one!

[@vppnbrent]

Good one! Funny how the weirdest ideas make a good hit!

[@ronalddiloro4628]

The best really for the last and the next years🙃🤣

[@michaelripley4528]

ROFL!!!!🤣🤣🤣👌🏻💯%BEST!!!

[@007Yasir]

Very clever👌

[@carlawilkinson5831]

This is why I always take the stairs 🤣

[@CraigFThompson]

Candid Camera did this same thing back in the mid 60s, in the days of Alan Funt and black-and-white TV....

[@peterfunt8622]

Correct. My Dad and his prop people invented the gag. The one my team did years later was just more elaborate. -Peter

[@CraigFThompson]

@peterfunt8622 Your dad was one helluva great man; I always enjoyed watching his (the original) version of the show! Most memorable are the episodes where he himself came out to tell those being pranked that they were on Candid Camera!!

[@jayniekinser7029]

Took a lot of work to construct all of that.

[@mowguy1]

I'm a.fan of taking the stairs

[@patmccaffery1543]

Brilliant 👏👏

[@marctompkins3001]

The shows writers must be on some of that good stuff, in order to come up with these pranks. Who’s their Doctor?

[@stevenking5531]

They have some next level plugs. No sober person can possibly come up with such pranks.

[@alexmurray6515]

Always very good!

[@HicksterTexan]

Haha this was fun to watch

[@jonathansabinvarietyfilms]

I remember watching this one first airing when I was a kid.

[@BillyAlabama]

Clever!!

[@comdamter]

never saw this before but that is super funny

[@cagedtigersteve]

I wish I could get pranked like this.

[@michaelripley4528]

Yeah🤣This one is DOPE!!!🤣

[@Mike-pj1kv]

How can he be that patient?

[@MsBonijoni]

. .✨Jose is so cute 🥂. .reminds me of Elvis✨

[@Dreamskater100]

Good one!

[@AmazingPhilippines1]

Cool prank!

[@jacobrivers5728]

The British version of Candid Camera did this prank in 1974 about 15 years before this one. The British version was funny because the elevator supposedly traveled between the first and third floors without stopping at the second floor, which was the intended destination, and every time the elevator doors opened the same prankster would be standing outside the elevator on both the first and third floors, confusing the person being pranked even more.

[@peterfunt8622]

Sorry to quibble, but the British version of our show was licensed by us and used gags we developed. The first elevator gag was done on our U.S. show in 1965; another version was done in 1965. -Peter

[@cevahirlacin9118]

I can relate to this, looks like the elevator I am in the last 10 years .

[@HobbyOrganist]

Reminds me of when I was a kid in the 70s and I used to hang out on top of the elevators in our apartment building in NY City, it was a 22 story building and I discovered the elevator doors had a little roller that hit a switch, and I figured out that when the car slowed down and was about to stop and open the door, if I tripped that roller the mechanical floor selector computer in the basement would reset, "forget" the floor it was supposed to stop and, and go back to park on the ground lobby floor LOL! So I remember one guy wanted to go to around the 20th floor and as the car was slowing down I tripped the door roller and the elevator went all the way back to the lobby, so the guy tried again, same thing happened, the 3rd time as it headed back down he pushed a lower floor button and got off there, I guess to walk up ;) I later got off on a different floor than ours because my shoes had oil/grease on them that left footprints, so I walked up to the nearest apartment door leaving oily footprints to the door mat, took my shoes off and went back to our floor.

[@knuthamsun6106]

OK this one’s pretty clever

[@أبوهشام-م2ر]

دعوات المكروب: " اللهم رحمتك أرجو، فلا تكلني إلى نفسي طرفة عين، وأصلح لي شأني كلّه، لا إله إلا أنت "

[@timbukh3]

Which way to the stairs please.

[@roundingcorners]

has to be someone's first day at the building, I can't imagine how they would replace an infrastructure as big as an existing elevator

[@peterfunt8622]

All these people were called to the building or sent there. They had never been there before. -Peter

[@ideegeniali]

People are not dishoriented or surprised by the spatial relocation, because they could definetively feel lateral side acceleration instead of expected up/down gravity acceleration delta inside the elevator.

[@Annie-vg5bk]

I would have found the stairs 😂

[@markeushorst7437]

What year was this filmed

[@tylerbonser7686]

Yes

[@kevinjones6577]

These 20 year olds on youtube today have NO IDEA what a "prank" is.

[@LimitlessHoops]

I would risk it all for Kate ❤️

[@chris-hu7tm]

puts it in perspective that this was filmed so long ago so pretty much everyone is deceased

[@manfocused]

So long ago? This was the early '00s. Candid Cam aired on TV up until 2014.

[@MrLyosea]

This is from 2001. Not 1941.

[@jayniekinser7029]

Peter Funt responded only three weeks ago.

[@pauls2613]

Cant they feel the movement?

[@jonathansabinvarietyfilms]

I wonder why all the episodes from this era have blaring audio?

[@tylerbonser7686]

It was before the fcc put regulations on db levels

[@yunjiehong4649]

This can be used in airport lol

[@mikeh2675]

Must have been so confusing! 😉

[@stevepetersen8068]

How would they not feel themselves going sideways though & not going up & down?

[@peterfunt8622]

I tested the prop numerous times myself. Surprisingly, it feels like you're moving BUT you never think it's sideways. I don't know if that's mental or physical but no one ever guessed they weren't going up and down. -Peter

[@jessebaldwin2661]

That guy must have been questioning his sanity.

[@xroller5313]

A Glitch in the Matrix.

[@Lunafalls]

I wonder how they hid the REAL elevators!

[@peterfunt8622]

Great question. There were none. We did this gag in a ONE-STORY building! -Peter

[@jayniekinser7029]

Where were those people thinking they were going?

[@nrfnrd]

Don’t notice u r going sideways? And not up?

[@roachtoasties]

Funny, but they had to sense the "elevator" was moving sideways.

[@peterfunt8622]

I thought the same. So before we shot anything I tried it several times. You do NOT feel the sideways motion. It just feels normal. -Peter

[@owmeow]

@@peterfunt8622 Are you really Peter Funt???

[@peterfunt8622]

@@owmeow Gosh, I hope so. That's how they introduce me on TV. -Peter

[@owmeow]

@@peterfunt8622 Hahaha! i was just shocked because i've never talked to someone who's been on TV before! Great work on candid camera :)

[@exoressdelivers70]

Even if you eventually knew it was going sideways the confusing thing is that for everyone else who went in and out it apparently was going up and down.

[@lukasstronghood2692]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@madmad4769]

LOL

[@bushy702]

32 feet, is it really that necessary to be too specific

[@Julie-kb3mo]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😄

[@doubledrats235]

Making people question their sanity

[@fastjoecorrigan7426]

Side WAYS

[@user-ki4jc7il1n]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@nhanzdelossantos3134]

These clowns wouldn't trick me but one time, I'd come out of that elevator and hit the stairs running, adios los payasos.

[@dannyrichards6233]

Lol.

[@WilliamRoss-hx4ut]

Lol

[@kewGarden]

People talk about the office guy's patience, but he was not a good scientist. A good logician would have deduced that confirmation bias couldn't get him anywhere--only a falsifiable outcome, such as riding the "elevator" with another person--would have a chance of success.

[@username178able]

🤣

[@davidcrawford219]

WATCHING drug commercials is Candid Camera...side effects are ridiculous.

[@margaretsleator5530]

The woman laughing is sooooo annoying

[@stevenscottoddballz]

Wouldn't someone feel the movement of side-to-side & know something was up?

[@robinromine8158]

😂😂😂😂😂