The show, which lasted for 871 performances during its initial run, featured sketches written by Mad regulars Stan Hart and Larry Siegel interspersed with comedic songs ( one of which was written by an uncredited Stephen Sondheim ).

Another pilot was filmed for CBS, Julie Brown: The Show, and featured a similar theme, in which Brown was the hostess of a talk show and she would interview actual celebrity guests, interspersed with scripted scenarios.

Sometimes the guest had a prominent spot in the program, other times the guest would pop up in short " quickies " ( one-or two-liner jokes ) interspersed throughout the show.

In the 2000s, when the show was available in both English and Japanese, Sesame English was interspersed within the program, first as a replacement for Elmo's World, but later in addition to it.

The show took the form of short, condensed sketches interspersed with links filmed in what was purportedly Adam and Joe's bedsit, but was actually a shared " performance space " above a branch of The Body Shop in Brixton.

Tesh currently has a nationally-syndicated radio show called the John Tesh Radio Show, which typically airs on Adult Contemporary and Classic Hits radio stations, which plays Teen-oriented Soft rock ( music, or music selected by an affiliate station themselves ), interspersed with various factoids and other information Tesh considers useful to listeners, often with topics such as health and well-being.

To show these cartoons, he traveled to the poorer parts of town, where no movie theatres were to be found, and showed the paying public Chaplin shorts and other films interspersed with his animation.

Instead of a concert focusing on each singers recordings, Aiken and Studdard opted for a variety show format covering medleys of songs from the 1960s to the 1990s with a few solos and interspersed with comedy bits.

On 24, 25 and 26 December 2006, the ITV3 channel devoted the whole three days to the show interspersed with Ronnie Corbett's reminiscences of the show and Ronnie Barker.

The accompanying video went even further depicting a young girl and her parents ( who resemble the couple from Grant Woods ' famous ' American Gothic ' painting ) attempting to watch ' The Three Stooges ' interspersed with The Hooters performing, but being constantly interrupted by transmissions from a Christian show.

The show was billed as non-party political, and involved the two politicians interviewing local personalities interspersed with music.

The half-hour show was broadcast live, although filmed excerpts were interspersed, and slides of scenes from previous shows were included in later episodes to bring viewers up to date with regard to plot elements which had previously transpired.

At midnight on Monday, October 24, 2011, following Alexander Zonjic's Sunday-night smooth jazz show, WGPR began playing " It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday " by Boyz II Men continuously interspersed with announcements directing WGPR listeners to WDMK.

She also widely performed her one woman show in which she told anecdotes about the many great men in American musical theatre history whom she had personally known, notably George Gershwin who had proposed marriage ( according to an interview in American Heritage magazine ), Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Oscar Hammerstein, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, interspersed with a few of the songs that made each of them famous.

The shows are occasionally " recut " and interspersed with segments from other episodes for time and diversity purposes ; for instance, a rebroadcast of Gail Farrell's 1969 debut actually featured an added song by Anacani, who hadn't joined the show until 1973.

This was a completely different show, however, being a series of 45-minute serious debates interspersed with the occasional sketch or piece of music.

The show stuck closely to the Muppet Show format of various skits ( mostly featuring the show's human guest star ) interspersed with some sort of crisis occurring backstage.

The statistical data in the Kish free zone's archives show that the island's temperature varies form very hot to moderately hot, accompanied by relatively high humidity often interspersed by heavy rains of short durations in certain seasons.

The show consists of pseudo-reality footage interspersed with clips of Simpson talking to the camera about herself and about the various events in the show.

Both episodes that featured this short-lived cartoon series ( the season 26 finale hosted by Christopher Walken and the season 27 episode hosted by Alec Baldwin ) had animated scenes interspersed of Lorne Michaels deeply disappointed in the show.

Batchelor's show featured multiple guests, and shows were preceded by and interspersed with news clips and music.

The show consisted of Cullen giving commentary and conducting interviews interspersed with musical selections.

The Bakkers greatly contributed to the growth of the network, and their success with a variety show format ( including interviews and puppets ) helped make The 700 Club one of the longest-running and most successful televangelism programs.

In various interviews, he expressed remorse for some of the extreme theatrics of his TV show, saying he had taken things too far.

The show features occasional on-the-street interviews by topless newscasters, which are made possible by Ontario's Topfree equality laws.

It was revealed on the Bravo show Hey Paula, which had followed Abdul with a video camera prior to the interviews, that Abdul had not been sleeping, perhaps suffering from some mild form of insomnia.

The show is a hip-hop fan favorite, airing news, classic songs, and interviews with various hip-hop artists.

Other appearances included interviews on CNN's Crossfire, NBC's The Today Show, and regular appearances on the Charlie Rose show.

The postgame show was supposed to feature the song " One Shining Moment " but due to postgame interviews taking so long, CBS never aired it.

Before Limbaugh, their day time talk show hosts were local and not particularly partisan, each quite a bit different from the other, and had diverse conversations on a wide variety of topics from both local and national politics, to food, to interviews with interesting people, book authors, and so forth.

The show pioneered many of the most important investigative journalism techniques, including re-editing interviews, hidden cameras, and " gotcha " visits to the home or office of an investigative subject.

The Groucho Marx-hosted game show, You Bet Your Life, was primarily composed of Marx ' prescripted comebacks to what was most often candid interviews of the contestants, although some contestants were well-known actors ( usually playing for charity ).

This airs prior to the awards ceremony show, which also features red carpet interviews and fashion commentary.

In an attempt to make his new album a success, Prince easily gave more interviews than at any other point in his career, appearing on MTV's Total Request Live ( with his album cover on the front of the Virgin Megastore, in the background on TRL throughout the whole show ), Larry King Live ( with Larry Graham ) and other media outlets.

Another episode shows a rerun of Krusty's show from 1961 in which he interviews AFL-CIO president George Meany.

Produced and directed by Alan J. W. Bell, it featured interviews with the majority of cast and crew members, outtakes from the show, and a behind-the-scenes look at production.

A 2008 release named Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1976 focuses on the third series of the show and includes bonus interviews with Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde, and Frank Thornton.

Extras featured on the set include the pilot episode, the music video " Freakin ' Friends " by Mystik Spiral, " Daria Day " introductions as well as a top ten video countdown on MTV by Jane and Daria, cast and crew interviews, and ( as a DVD-ROM feature ) a script for an unproduced Mystik Spiral spin-off show.

The show featured calls from viewers, interviews with classic game show hosts and behind-the-scenes features of game shows.

In the channel's early days, Club A. M. was a three-hour block consisting of five classic game shows, surrounded by thirty minutes ' worth of interstitial trivia, interviews with game show producers, personalities, contestants and fans, and interactive call-in games, all hosted by Laura Chambers and Steve Day ( which was also rerun in late night, with some new segments, under the title Late Night Games ).

Allen pioneered the format of late night network TV talk shows, originating such talk show staples as an opening monologue, celebrity interviews, audience participation, and comedy bits in which cameras were taken outside the studio, as well as music, although the series ' popularity was cemented by second host Jack Paar, who took over after Allen had left and the show had ceased to exist.

In follow-up interviews since then such as Oprah in 2010, Lake has consistently said " never say never " about hosting a new show, but that she is happy working on other projects.

" Don Francisco " immediately became a household name among Hispanic families across the United States, and in the following six years Kreutzberger developed a three hour long variety show, including contests, comedy, interviews and a traveling camera section.

At the age of 19, his work came into national focus when Eric Morganthaler wrote a front page article about him for the Wall Street Journal, resulting in talk show interviews by Geraldo Rivera, Phil Donahue and Oprah Winfrey.

* July 28, 1987 – Actor Crispin Glover appears as a guest and gave one of the most bizarre interviews in the history of the show.