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 Danny Kaye Show and Performers (1965), and Outstanding Art Direction For A Series (1964). In the spring of 1967 the ratings had slipped, due in part to a time slot too late evening for younger viewers. Children were always a large slice of Kaye's audience. There also was stiff competition from NBC's "I Spy" with three time Emmy winner Bill Cosby. After four years on CBS, "The Danny Kaye Show" ended its prime-time run. Show regular Harvey Korman quickly signed with another CBS variety series premiering in September - "The Carol Burnett Show", where he would remain as a cast member for ten