I grew up on variety shows. I'm from the '60s and '70s. I…

Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined…

— Tom Shales

I hate variety shows.

— Ken Berry

As a person, I'm just really kitchy and corny, and I love '70s variety shows.

— Erich Bergen

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

— Bruce Cockburn

I used to watch those syndicated, black-and-white Country Music Television shows from the '60s with my dad. And all of those people that played…

— Marty Stuart

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by…

— Ruth Buzzi

Standups have all the talk shows, but you never see a sketch group on a talk show. Even on so-called variety shows, if you…

— Matt Besser

I grew up in the age of variety shows. 'Flip Wilson,' 'Carol Burnett,' 'Donny and Marie,' and 'Sonny and Cher' - I never missed…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Variety shows didn't disappear; it was the caliber of the artists, the classic vaudevillians that have passed on. They are gone, so there's a…

— Flip Wilson

They killed off variety shows and they killed off Westerns by having too many of the same thing.

— Mike Connors

I had a very exciting life in Italy, and I was doing lots of variety shows.

— Moran Atias

I watch a variety of shows. I love 'Veep,' 'Parks and Recreation,' 'Girls,' 'Mad Men,' 'Game of Thrones' and fun shows like 'Empire.'

— Lindsey Morgan

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

— Al Sharpton

I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them…

— Sid Bernstein

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

— Fred Allen