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
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and final segment is almost always a musical performance, but occasionally, a stand-up comedian will perform instead. Immediately following the last performance segment, Leno walks on camera to thank the performers, bid farewell to the audience and recommends watching "Late Night" which immediately follows "The Tonight Show". As the closing credits roll on-screen, the closing theme, composed by bandleader Rickey Minor plays the show off the air. Minor composed a new opening and closing theme when he began his reign as bandleader on June 7, 2010. Branford Marsalis was the original bandleader of the show from 1992 to 1995, leaving