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Variety Show

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37 feature instances
41 referencing feature instances

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Variety Show	comment	A descendant of Vaudeville: an anthology of unrelated performances (be they musical, comedic, dramatic, etc.) by different performers. The format is literally Older Than Television, being developed for radio and crossing over to TV as the medium became popular after World War II. The first breakout television hits were variety shows, most notably the Texaco Star Theater (hosted by Milton Berle) and The Ed Sullivan Show; other important examples from the '50s and '60s included The Red Skelton Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, The Carol Burnett Show, and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. As you might notice, many such shows were named for the host(s). In The '70s, The Carol Burnett Show continued to perform well in the ratings, as did The Flip Wilson Show, Donny and Marie and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. However, overall the genre began to slide. The decline may be related to the fact that, increasingly, variety shows were used as "summer series" while American networks' main shows were on hiatus. Said replacements seemed to get exponentially corny and their hosts increasingly unlikely, including The Brady Bunch, mimes (!) Shields and Yarnell, affable TV actor Ken Berry, and pop groups ranging from The Starland Vocal Band to The Hudson Brothers. This format fell out of favor in America in the early 1980s (although in Australia, Hey Hey It's Saturday lasted until 1999). Cable (particularly MTV and HBO) provided alternate outlets for the music, stand-up comedy, and miscellaneous acts that were the bread-and-butter of these shows, and viewers no longer had to sit through three acts they weren't interested in for the sake of one that they wanted to see. If they didn't like what was on cable, people could go down to the local video rental stores that were popping up across the country to find something they wanted to watch. Also, tastes were becoming more polarized; whereas formerly people could endure musical styles they didn't care for much, more and more people actually HATED styles they disfavored. This, combined with the growing number of U.S. households with multiple TV sets, meant that viewers could watch what they wanted, making the format obsolete. One-shot and annual specials such as Circus of the Stars persisted into the early 1990s, but even those are now relatively rare. Occasional attempts to revive the genre (on networks or cable) have been doomed to failure, though some might argue that Sketch Comedy shows such as Saturday Night Live, the late-night Talk Show format, and reality competitions such as American Idol and America's Got Talent keep the form on life support. NBC gave it one more shot for the 2015-16 season with Neil Patrick Harris hosting Best Time Ever, but it only lasted 8 episodes before being canceled. Producers of the British Sitcom The Young Ones booked a band for a guest appearance in every episode; musical performances qualified the series as a variety show, and it was therefore permitted a larger budget than usual for a BBC sitcom. Variety shows are still popular in East Asia and Europe, likely due to over-the-air programming still being dominant and households tending to only have one TV set. The East Asian shows aren't exactly the same as the Western variety shows, although the name is still used to refer to them.
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Variety Show / int_2bae325d	comment	Hee Haw - an American country music-themed variety show, one of the victims of The Rural Purge.
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Variety Show / int_2ec977ec	comment	Toby Terrier and His Video Pals
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Variety Show / int_35bd1eb8	comment	Hinatazaka de Aimashō
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Variety Show / int_3dab59cc	comment	The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
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Variety Show / int_455dd62c	comment	The Carol Burnett Show
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Variety Show / int_4c99197e	comment	The Muppet Show — Somewhere between a straight example and a spoof of this genre.
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Variety Show / int_5676324b	comment	Bill Nye Saves the World — In a sense. Each episode has a particular Central Theme that ties all the elements together, but within a single episode are contained any combination of live demonstrations in front of the audience, comedy sketches, "man on the street" style interviews, correspondent field pieces, panel discussions, and monologues from Bill himself.
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Variety Show / int_59fb8a3b	comment	Technically, by having bands on, The Young Ones was considered a variety show. (This was because variety got a higher budget than light entertainment at the BBC.)
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Variety Show / int_6f28ac05	comment	In-universe in The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air), the eponymous radio show's format includes musical numbers by bizarre animals and inanimate objects, novelty acts, and prerecorded spoken "true story" segments as closing "feature presentations."
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Variety Show / int_752a5032	type	Variety Show
Variety Show / int_752a5032	comment	Texaco Star Theater
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Variety Show / int_79b558c0	comment	Super Dave, a.k.a. The Super Dave Osborne Show
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Variety Show / int_84edf220	type	Variety Show
Variety Show / int_84edf220	comment	The Tracey Ullman Show (aka, the show where The Simpsons started on)
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Variety Show / int_8783b6c9	type	Variety Show
Variety Show / int_8783b6c9	comment	Who's The Murderer
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Variety Show / int_8fd43a81	comment	The Colgate Comedy Hour
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Variety Show / int_913afe40	type	Variety Show
Variety Show / int_913afe40	comment	Adam Hills In Gordon Street Tonight
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Variety Show / int_9dc5d7c8	type	Variety Show
Variety Show / int_9dc5d7c8	comment	Attack of the Show!
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Variety Show / int_a24a2a1e	comment	The Steve Allen Show
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Variety Show / int_a89e8c62	type	Variety Show
Variety Show / int_a89e8c62	comment	The Ed Sullivan Show
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Variety Show / int_a925bed7	comment	The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
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Variety Show / int_a990733e	type	Variety Show
Variety Show / int_a990733e	comment	AKBingo!
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Variety Show / int_aae1bea2	comment	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Variety Show / int_af637c4a	comment	The Red Skelton Show
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Variety Show / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live originally had more of a variety show-style format, with multiple musical guests appearing in some early episodes and stand-up comedy mixed in with the sketch comedy.
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Variety Show / int_b86fe5e5	type	Variety Show
Variety Show / int_b86fe5e5	comment	A radio example would be A Prairie Home Companion.
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Variety Show / int_b8a616b1	comment	The Hollywood Revue of 1929 was part of a series of filmed variety shows that were briefly in vogue during the 1928-30 era when sound films were new and novel. MGM, which was transitioning to talking films, simply put all of its stars into a variety show movie filled with unrelated sketches and songs. Warner Brothers did the exact same thing with its 1929 film The Show of Shows. 1930 film King of Jazz is a plotless variety show featuring Paul Waldman and his band in a series of lavish musical numbers, with sketch comedy interludes.
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Variety Show / int_bc7e2eed	comment	Run BTS! — Variety Show featuring the members of Korean Pop Music band BTS
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Variety Show / int_c2e1c580	comment	This Is Tom Jones
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Variety Show / int_c7f86782	comment	Running Man — A popular Korean show where its celebrity cast competes in games and races
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Variety Show / int_dceec486	comment	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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Variety Show / int_dffa45a6	comment	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Variety Show / int_e0b608a7	comment	The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour Along with separate shows (Cher and The Sonny Comedy Revue) following the couple's bitter divorce.
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Variety Show / int_ed32a52a	comment	The Black and White Minstrel Show - unfortunately, almost all the musical performances were done by white performers in Black Face.
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Variety Show / int_ef0da7ba	comment	Hey Hey It's Saturday
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Variety Show / int_f2495e2b	comment	The Slammer — A variety show with a weird framing device.
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Variety Show / int_f3f51e2b	comment	Pink Lady and Jeff — This 1980 NBC flop was the arguable Genre-Killer.
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Variety Show / int_f67aead0	comment	The Tonight Show The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson The Tonight Show with Jay Leno The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Variety Show / int_f6bfbbed	comment	Fridays
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