Guinness World Records Primetime

{{short description|American television series}}

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| presenter = Cris Collinsworth
Mark Thompson

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| language = English

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| company = LMNO Productions

| channel = Fox

| first_aired = {{Start date|1998|7|27}}

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Guinness World Records Primetime (AKA Guinness Primetime) is a TV show based on the Guinness World Records, and aired on the Fox television network from 1998 to 2001.{{cite web |title=Guinness World Records: Primetime |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/guinness-world-records-primetime/1030143593/ |website=TVGuide |language=en}} It was hosted by Cris Collinsworth{{cite news |last1=Kiesewetter |first1=John |title=Fox News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-guiness/140784623/ |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |department=Television |date=August 25, 1998 |page=C3}} and Mark Thompson and reported on existing record-holders or on new record attempts.

These new record attempts included many unusual or bizarre categories such as a 300-pound tumor, squirting milk from one's eye, covering one's self with bees, sitting in a tub of snakes, regurgitating, burping, setting one's self on fire, eating metal, worms, and ketchup, kissing cobras, acting as a human speed bump, and entering a coffin full of cockroaches. Most of these attempts never found their way into the Guinness Book.