The Changing Nature of Variety in the 60s and 70s

Tune in with your feedbackAs Saturday Night Live celebrates 50 years, BAF explores comedy-variety sketch shows that aired in the 10 years before it premiered. Such programs themeed their content around current events of the day, popular culture, and parodies of the past, present, and future. Programs such as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Carol Burnett Show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, and Hee Haw were all different in their own way but laid the foundations in comedy and music for a long running show such as Saturday Night Live to position itself in the television viewing marketplace when it finally went on the air in 1975, Support the show