Variety show Stan Laurel revisited his music hall days when he performed at the "Royal Variety" show. In the United States, former vaudeville performers such as the Marx Brothers, George Burns and Gracie Allen, W. C. Fields, and Jack Benny honed their skills in the Borscht Belt before moving to talkies, to radio shows, and then to television shows, including variety shows. Variety shows were among the first programs to be featured on television during the experimental mechanical television era. Variety shows hosted by Helen Haynes and Harriet Lee are recorded in contemporary newspapers in 1931 and 1932; because of technical limits
Goodnight Gracie Goodnight Gracie "Goodnight Gracie" is the 24th and final episode of the fourth season of the American sitcom "Modern Family", and the series' 96th episode overall. It was aired on May 22, 2013. The episode was written by Steven Levitan & Jeffrey Richman and it was directed by Steven Levitan. Phil's (Ty Burrell) mother passes away and the whole family flies to Florida for the funeral. When they get there, Jay (Ed O'Neill) runs into a woman who he is sure he knows from somewhere. While talking to her he remembers that he lost his virginity to her when he