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
CBS been hosted since 2007 by actor/comedian Drew Carey. The network is also home to the current incarnation of "Let's Make a Deal", hosted by singer/comedian Wayne Brady, which originated in 1964 on NBC and was revived by CBS in 2009 (after a 19-year absence as a regular series), and is one of the several game show franchises in United States television history to appear on all of the traditional Big Three networks, with "Family Feud", "The Price is Right", "Password", and "Match Game" being the others. , CBS is the only commercial broadcast network that continues to broadcast daytime game