History Of Collecting Bloopers

[Satchmo Distel]

The pioneer in this field seems to have been Kermit Schafer, who had several hit albums of such material. However, he seems to have used actors to 'reproduce' ones he could not obtain legally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Schafer

This led to one infamous balls-up where a blooper was falsely applied to an innocent party:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/uncle-don-rumor/