  We present basic statistics for all supernovae discovered by the All-Sky
Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) during its first year-and-a-half of
operations, spanning 2013 and 2014. We also present the same information for
all other bright ($m_V\leq17$), spectroscopically confirmed supernovae
discovered from 2014 May 1 through the end of 2014, providing a comparison to
the ASAS-SN sample starting from the point where ASAS-SN became operational in
both hemispheres. In addition, we present collected redshifts and near-UV
through IR magnitudes, where available, for all host galaxies of the bright
supernovae in both samples. This work represents a comprehensive catalog of
bright supernovae and their hosts from multiple professional and amateur
sources, allowing for population studies that were not previously possible
because the all-sky emphasis of ASAS-SN redresses many previously existing
biases. In particular, ASAS-SN systematically finds bright supernovae closer to
the centers of host galaxies than either other professional surveys or
amateurs, a remarkable result given ASAS-SN's poorer angular resolution. This
is the first of a series of yearly papers on bright supernovae and their hosts
that will be released by the ASAS-SN team.
