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- CreatorSylvester L. Weaver Jr.StarsSid CaesarImogene CocaFelisa VanoffBest remembered by its posterior title, Your Show of Shows, this live variety show included comedy sketches with TV pioneers Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.
- StarsAudrey MeadowsBob ElliottRay GouldingA comedy show, featuring the popular comedy duo of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. Audrey Meadows regularly performed with them in the show's first season, but was replaced by Cloris Leachman for the show's second season. The show featured comedy sketches, often parodying specific programs and genres of television and radio.
- CreatorMarcel MarceauStarsRed SkeltonDavid Rose and His OrchestraArt GilmoreComedian Red Skelton hosts a variety show of comedic sketches, and a range of stars, to speak to an entire generation.
- StarsErnie Kovacs
- DirectorMichael MillsStarsMichael BentinePeter SellersSpike MilliganThe team from BBC radio's legendary "Goon Show" present a one-off parody of television newsreels.
- StarsErnie KovacsEdie AdamsPat WhiteAn American comedy show, hosted by comedian Ernie Kovacs who often changed the show's format during its run. It was variously retooled as a daytime show, prime-time show, late-night show, and talk show. The show was originally created for Philadelphia's television market, but was then broadcast nationally.
- StarsSid CaesarCarl ReinerHoward MorrisA sketch-comedy television series, featuring Sid Caesar as the main star. It was based on Caesar's previous comedy shows, "Admiral Broadway Revue" and "Your Show of Shows", but often featured lengthier sketches than either of them. The series used most of the same cast and writers as the previous shows. The unavailable Imogene Coca (Caesar's long-time comedy partner) was replaced by Nanette Fabray. Several sketches were parodies of film genres, and others were satirical portrayals of the acting profession.
- StarsBenny HillJeremy HawkPatricia HayesBritish comedy TV variety series starring Benny Hill containing episodes aired for the BBC (1955-1968).
- DirectorJoseph BeharErnie KovacsStarsErnie KovacsJames Yoham
- StarsBenny HillVivienne MartinPatricia HayesThe Benny Hill Show 1957.
- StarsGarry MooreThe George Becker SingersThe Ernie Flatt DancersVariety show hosted by Garry Moore with famous guests.
- StarsErnie KovacsMargaret StyneBob LauherTelevision's Original Genius: In the infancy of any medium, there will be some who realize its potential well before anyone else. Ernie Kovacs was such a visionary, and between 1951 and 1962 he broke rules that hadn't even been made yet and created a "language" that is now taken for granted.
- DirectorDavid BrownStarsSid CaesarGordon ConnellJane ConnellFirst of three thirty minute specials airing in syndication during the 1962-63 season, featuring the comic antics and offbeat insights of Sid Caesar.
- StarsBenny HillGraham StarkPatricia HayesThis timeless modern slapstick-format doesn't really have a plot, but is an irresistible rapid succession of independent short, comical scenes, mostly without any text, often using artificial speed enhancing in the countless chases, which have little in common except the eponymous title-hero himself, who like several frequently recurring sidekicks (especially the old bald guy, who gets countless knocks all over the place) turns up in all sort of places and is frequently tempted by too blond, young and long-legged to be true Benny Hill-girls, getting in - but mostly also out of all kinds of trouble with jealous husbands, police etcetera.
- DirectorGreg GarrisonStarsSid CaesarEdie AdamsJoey Forman
- DirectorDuncan WoodStarsAlan BennettPeter CookJonathan MillerA TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1962) and subsequently in London (Fortune Theatre) and Broadway.
- StarsPeter CookDudley MooreChris KaranNot Only...But Also, most famously showcased Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in there so-called 'Dagenham dialogues' in which Pete (a nasal know-all who has utter confidence in his surreal and ill-informed philosophies on life) and Dud (credulous, dim-witted and scruffy) discuss all manner of subjects, bedecked in cloth caps and Macs.
- StarsTom SmothersDick SmothersPat PaulsenThe Smothers Brothers host a comedy variety show that became notorious for its topical satirical humor.
- StarsCarol BurnettVicki LawrenceThe Ernie Flatt DancersTelevision show featuring skits by Carol Burnett and her comedy troupe.
- StarsJohn CleeseGraham ChapmanTim Brooke-TaylorWritten by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman, "At Last the 1948 Show" is a groundbreaking, splendidly silly and surreal sketch comedy series.
- StarsJonathan WintersJohn AylesworthCliff ArquetteA weekly variety program, presented by the comedian Jonathan Winters. It featured guest comedians and musicians, recurring sketches with regular characters, and a segment devoted to Winters performing impressions of various persons and animals.