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
Kids Say the Darndest Things Kids Say the Darndest Things Kids Say the Darndest Things is an American comedy series hosted by Bill Cosby that aired on CBS as a special on February 6, 1995, then as a full series from January 9, 1998 to June 23, 2000. It was based on a feature with the same name in Art Linkletter's radio show "House Party" and television series, "Art Linkletter's House Party", which together aired mostly five days a week from 1945 to 1969. The premise of the show is that the host would ask a question to a child (around the age of 3