The Best Comedy-Variety Shows Ever!!!!

[Smokebutt]

Who Whould You Pick For "The Best Comedy - Variety Shows Ever!!!" on Television..

My Vote Goes To "Saturday Night Live" "The Tracey Ullman Show" and "The Ben Stiller Show".

You Can Twice If You Like....

[TJL]

Some of my favorites -

The Jackie Gleason Show
Your Show Of Shows
The Tonight Show (Carson, not Leno)
The Steve Allen SHow
and of course
Letterman!

[dawsongirl]

I'd say Laugh-In. :)

[Brian]

I agree. Laugh-In is the bomb.

[Jimbo]

A few of my favorites over the years:

The Jackie Gleason Show
The Carol Burnett Show
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
Saturday Night Live (The original cast)
In Living Color
The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson

[Pitooey]

1) Laugh In :D

2) The Ed Sullivan Show :D

3) The Carol Burnett Show :D

I also do like alot of the old stuff like Red Skelton, Milton Berle. :D :D

[boechsner]

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is my favorite followed by The Carol Burnett Show and Saturday Night, Live.

[TJL]

Damn! I forgot about the Carol Burnett Show!
Add that one to my list.

[dugferd]

Carol Burnett's is best variety.
Best comedy is SCTV.

[harper]

talent,skill,of writers,and cast cannot be compared to drug induced cast of the 70's so it doesn't really matter.Anyone can confuse drug indused stupidity with being fresh and irreverant and tongue and cheek and then call it a new genre of comedy.Carol nor my dad or tim had to do drugs to be creative and brilliant unlike the SNL group of the Seventies.B.Crystal and Murphy saved SNL.They were the show along with joe piscopo.

[dlemond]

Originally posted by harper
talent,skill,of writers,and cast cannot be compared to drug induced cast of the 70's so it doesn't really matter.Anyone can confuse drug indused stupidity with being fresh and irreverant and tongue and cheek and then call it a new genre of comedy.Carol nor my dad or tim had to do drugs to be creative and brilliant unlike the SNL group of the Seventies.B.Crystal and Murphy saved SNL.They were the show along with joe piscopo.

Your dad is Harvey Korman?

I love Harvey Korman- he and Tim Conway were an awesome team and always cracked me up.

And besides Hedley Lamar (my friends and I always loved that name) from Blazing Saddles how can anyone forget Count de Monet from History of the World, Pt 1?

-The peasants are revolting.
(you said it, they stink on ice.)

-you look like the piss boy.
(and you look like a bucket of sh-t)

-don't get saucey with me Bernaise.

All classic.

Tell your dad to get on Mel's case and get High Anxiety released on DVD. Another classic Korman role.

He and Cloris Leachman were hysterical together in that.

[hue_mee]

1) Rowen and Martins "Laugh in". Dan Rowen looked so adorable in that tuxido! Hee hee. Can't forget about the party scenes.

2) Classic Tonight show with Johnny Carson.

3) Saturday night live (original cast)

4) Any Frank Sanatra / Rat Pack variety show

[Penny Lane]

The Carol Burnett Show hands down!:D

And Harper....................your dad and Tim Conway are the greatest!:)

[*PinkLady*]

The only one I ever really liked was the Flip Wilson Show.

[JDS84]

The Carol Burnett Show

[Brian Damage]

SNL

[harper]

thank you for the nice words about my dad.you know there touring together If you want to know if there coming to a city near you go to pollstar.com and put in Tim or harvey in the find box if you are interested.I won't go on about my dad is seems there are alot of people got on me about talking about my dad or making references to him.I personally don't mean to brag but I do know alot about show biz and all I was doing was sharing it.I guess people sometimes confuse being smart with arrogant and that wasn't what I Was trying to be.I think I need to find a message board that is made up of people who aren't threatned by my intelligence about showbiz.

[PZelda]

Oh, definitely The Carol Burnett Show in first place and SNL in second. :D

[Marvo301]

The Red Skelton Show! I love Freddy the Freeloader and all of Red's other unique and original characters.:wave:

[dandelion wine]

The Carol Burnett Show !!

Laugh-In

Kids in the Hall

Benny Hill (Even as a little girl, I thought it was one of the funniest shows I'd ever seen)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson