Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Back before cable TV and streaming we had something we used to call The Variety Show. There were many during the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s but like the Dodo bird and the pay phone the genre just faded away. Now variety is represented by Dancing With the Stars, and the various talent shows we see on modern TV, but in this course we’ll be looking at what real variety used to be. We’ll see film clips of Milton Berle, The Tonight Show with Steve Allen/Jack Paar/Johnny Carson, The Colgate Comedy Hour (with Martin and Lewis, and Abbott and Costello), Sid Caesar’s YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS will also be well represented.