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| Yo Momma | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality TV Game Show |
| Created by | Wilmer Valderrama |
| 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 | "Yo' Mama" (remix) by The Pharcyde |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 64 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Dean Minerd, Rod Aissa, Wilmer Valderrama |
| Producers | Lisa Lettunich, Jonathan Cane, Ross Breitenbach, |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | MTV |
| Release | April 3, 2006 – December 27, 2007 |
Yo Momma is a 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.
"Best of the City"
Hosted by Wilmer Valderrama, Yo Momma held season-ending contests 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. In order to win, you have to have originality, delivery, quickness and sting.
Season 1 (Los Angeles) (2006)
Winner: Harp
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 played Harp was "Float like a butterfly sting like a bee I slept with your mom and now it burns when I pee!" Harp was declared the winner of the final, dressed for the occasion with a blue cape and boxing gloves which read "Yo Momma" when put together.
Season 2 (New York City) (late 2006-early 2007)
Winner: BGB
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.
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.
Season 3 (Atlanta) (2007 and the series finale)
- Winner
- E-Man
Strategies: E-Man and S.E.M.E used strategies as a typical contestant with hits. Navv's Strategy was to drag out the words in reference to a yo momma joke. Pak Attack's strategy was to use stereotypes of his heritage, such as genies, and gas prices, as insults.
- (Examples) Navv: Yo momma is so fat I asked her what her favorite color was and she said "Long John Silver".
Pak Attack: Yo momma is so fat, I tried to give her a ride on my magic carpet and it wouldn't go. The magic carpet was broken.
E-Man won the freestyle round and called out S.E.M.E., leaving Navv vs. Pak Attack. E-Man beat S.E.M.E. 4-0, Navv also beat Pak Attack 4-0.
The final two were E-Man vs Navv. The first round was the 'Joke Til You Choke' round, which was a tie as both of them went back and forth for a long time, therefore the round was stopped. The second round was about jokes based in the ATL. The final round as usual was the knockout round. E-Man wins Best of Atlanta..
Guest appearances
Season 1: Los Angeles
- Week One: Method Man
- Week Two: Mike Jones
- Week Three: Shane Dawson
- Week Four: Ne-Yo
- Best of LA: The mommas were selected as the jury for the hosts
Season 2: New York City
- 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.
Season 3: Atlanta
- 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.
The Yo Momma Online Network
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 an article in Adweek Magazine.[1]