--- title: Alfonso Ribeiro Is the New 'America's Funniest Home Videos' Host description: Expect a lot of dancing canonical: https://time.com/3890478/alfonso-ribeiro-americas-funniest-home-videos-host/ author: Esther Zuckerman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-20T14:04:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:28:47.463Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Alfonso Ribeiro Is the New 'America's Funniest Home Videos' Host og:description: Expect a lot of dancing og:url: https://time.com/3890478/alfonso-ribeiro-americas-funniest-home-videos-host/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alfonso Ribeiro Is the New 'America's Funniest Home Videos' Host twitter:description: Expect a lot of dancing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Alfonso Ribeiro Is the New _America's Funniest Home Videos_ Host by [Esther Zuckerman](https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/) ## Esther Zuckerman Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME. May 20, 2015 2:04 PM UTC by [Esther Zuckerman](https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/) ## Esther Zuckerman Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME. May 20, 2015 2:04 PM UTC Put some Tom Jones on and run into a wall: Alfonso Ribeiro—a.k.a. _The_ _Fresh Prince of Bel Air_‘s Carlton Banks—will host _America’s Funniest Home_ _Videos_, assuming that title from longtime host Tom Bergeron. Ribeiro’s new gig was announced on _Dancing with the Stars_, the competition that he won last year. “You have given me so much love and support in doing this and I couldn’t be more proud to take over for you,” Ribeiro told his predecessor Bergeron, who also happens to host _DWTS_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3890478/alfonso-ribeiro-americas-funniest-home-videos-host/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3890478/alfonso-ribeiro-americas-funniest-home-videos-host/"},"headline":"Alfonso Ribeiro Is the New America's Funniest Home Videos Host","datePublished":"2015-05-20T14:04:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:28:47.463Z","description":"Expect a lot of dancing","url":"https://time.com/3890478/alfonso-ribeiro-americas-funniest-home-videos-host/","keywords":["Television","Dancing with the Stars","Alfonso Ribeiro"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Esther Zuckerman","jobTitle":"Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3890478/alfonso-ribeiro-americas-funniest-home-videos-host/","name":"Alfonso Ribeiro Is the New America's Funniest Home Videos Host"}}]}] ```