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 Tim Conway Show (1980 TV series) The Tim Conway Show (1980 TV series) The Tim Conway Show – the second of two television series of the name – is a 1980-1981 American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Tim Conway. It aired on CBS from March 22, 1980, to May 17, 1980, and from September 20, 1980, to March 7, 1981. The show should not be confused with the spring 1970 sitcom also called "The Tim Conway Show" or with "The Tim Conway Comedy Hour", a comedy-variety series which aired in the fall of the same year, both also on CBS. Despite his success as a member