![]() ![]() What is a TV variety show? A parade of talented acts, presided over by a host such as Ed Sullivan? Sure. Of all the TV genres considered in this book, variety may be the hardest to define and pin down. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 1967–69, CBS Toast of the Town/The Ed Sullivan Show 1948–71, CBS He’s trying, he’s experimenting, he’s pushing himself,” Groening concludes, “and it just feels very cinematic.” Hosted by the abrasive co-host of ABC’s Monday Night Football and emanating from the same theater that until recently had housed The Ed Sullivan Show, this Saturday Night Live variety series counted Murray and Guest among its repertory company and premiered on September 20, 1975. The first show to arrive that year, in prime time on ABC, was Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. One had Bill Murray and Christopher Guest as regulars the other one would as well, but not initially. It spawned movies, records, comedy stage tours, and Broadway musicals and greatly inspired the producer who was about to launch a new 1975 variety series called Saturday Night Live.Īctually, and almost unthinkably, there were two variety shows called Saturday Night Live scheduled to premiere on U.S. The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific
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