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A late-night comedy show featuring several short skits, parodies of television commercials, a live guest band, and a pop-cultural guest host each week. Many of the SNL players have spun off successful independent comedy and/or movie careers from here.

Muppets Now is a short-form unscripted series, featuring celebrity guest stars as well as the beloved Muppets.

Warner Bros. follow-up to Tiny Toon Adventures was a show even nuttier than its predecessor. It originally ran every weekday afternoon and Saturday mornings on Fox for the first season, then moved to Saturday mornings on the (new at the time) WB permanently for the remaining seasons.

Based on the humor of UK comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Directed by David Schwimmer.

Kermit the Frog and his friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.

Bring the Funny is a competition series featuring various comedy acts performing in front of an audience for a chance to win $250,000.

Michael McIntyre returns to BBC One with a brand new family entertainment series for Saturday nights. Viewers are guaranteed big laughs, big stars and big surprises.

Five Emmy Awards and a Tony Award make multi-talented Neil Patrick Harris the perfect star for this live one-hour show that is unlike any other currently on American television. Complete with stunts, skits, pranks, audience interaction, musical numbers, giveaways and unlimited surprises, this show proves that anything can happen, and it can happen to you.

Amy Sedaris cordially invites you into her home, where she shows off diverse but necessary homemaking skills, from death-bed etiquette, to gutting a fish, to crocheting miniature sweaters for a mice infestation, to entertaining your husband's business associates. As always, Amy gives it her best shot to entertain guests, increase her know-how and her can-do, and attempt to work out personal issues.

TripTank showcases animated shorts so volatile that they should come with a recommended dosage. Combining a range of animation styles and a diverse cast including Wayne Brady, Kumail Nanjiani and Zach Galifianakis, the show promises to offer all the euphoria of a potent hallucinogen without any of the puking.

Hosted by star of Ellen and The Ellen Show, Ellen Degeneres. Featuring a unique mix of celebrity interviews, chart-topping and up-and-coming musical performances, audience participation games, and segments spotlighting real life stories, and amazing talent throughout all age-groups.

From Executive Producers Ellen DeGeneres and Steve Harvey comes a new variety series showcasing the nation's most extraordinarily talented kids. Host Steve Harvey will chat and even go toe to toe with these child prodigies after every performance, eliciting plenty of hilarious and heartwarming unscripted moments. From pint-size break-dancers to five-year-old piano virtuoso, these gifted performers will awe the nation with their talents, slay us with their cuteness and wow us with their accomplishments, proving once and for all that talent is born, not made.

The show is hosted by the comedic duo Ant & Dec, and typically runs for two series of 6-10 episodes a year. The variety show's primary focus is the chance for those in the audience to "Grab The Ads" - win the items featured in a given commercial break on ITV1.

Ziwe will feature interviews, musical numbers, guest stars, sketches and more - including unscripted and unpredictable interactions with everyday people.

Saturday Night Live veteran Jimmy Fallon takes the Late Night reins from Conan O'Brien when O'Brien succeeds Jay Leno as new host of The Tonight Show in 2009.

The show features eight up-and-coming comedians who get the opportunity to create their own 30-minute episodes and do whatever they want. No rules. No limits.

Tracey Ullman returns to British screens with her unique take on some of the extraordinary characters who live in, or are visiting, the global hub that is the UK.

Comedy show jam-packed with music, stars and the unique characters and charisma of two of the biggest icons in SNL history. Stars of stage and screen, Maya and Marty are beloved by audiences of all ages. With Kenan Thompson and a dream team of surprise celebrity guests joining them each week, this dynamic duo is ready to unleash the full range of their talents and bring down the house like never before.

In each episode audiences will experience an hour full of remarkable stories, celebrity guests, spontaneous surprises, humor, heart and, of course, good music! It's like a weekday brunch party with a fascinating guest list of people who would otherwise never meet.

From the producers of "America's Got Talent," comes the international hit variety show Game of Talents. Taking the awe, wonder and spectacle of a large-scale variety show and infusing it with a clue centered, high-intensity investigative game, Game of Talents is a new hybrid series like you've never seen before. The series pits two teams of contestants against each other as they attempt to figure out the surprising - and sometimes bizarre - hidden talents of the mystery performers. With more than $200,000 on the line, can the contestants spot the fire dancer from the spider wrangler or the chainsaw juggler from the contortionist? Can you?? This is Game of Talents!

The Dick Van Dyke Show was a situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1961-1966, and was created by Carl Reiner. It starred Dick Van Dyke as Rob Petrie, a writer for television show, and also starred Mary Tyler Moore as Laure Petrie, Rob's wife. The show centered around Rob working at the television show, called "The Alan Brady Show", which is a variety show in New York, and his two friends who were his co-workers, named Buddy and Sally.

On January 3, 2005, Craig Ferguson became the newest face in late night television. That's when he took over The Late Late Show. Ferguson was selected from a number of guest hosts after previous host Craig Kilborn stepped down in August 2004.

The Gong Show is a revival of the 1970s and 1980s game show of the same name that aired on NBC in daytime and first-run syndication from 1976 to 1980 and 1988 to 1989. Every episode will feature non-traditionally talented performers plucked from the internet and put in front of a revolving panel of Hollywood judges, who will use a gong to interrupt bad performances.

"Wonder Showzen" is an absurdist comedy/variety show, featuring a team of puppets, kids, cartoons and old educational films. It's a sugar coated comedic explosion for the fortified child in us all.

In Living Color was the brainchild of Keenen Ivory Wayans, the eldest acting sibling of a large and extremely talented family whose guidance toward his brothers and sisters would help shape his creation into something truly memorable, the likes of which had never been seen prior on US television.