| Viva Variety | |
|---|---|
| Genre | comedy/variety show |
| Created by | Ben Garant Thomas Lennon Michael Ian Black |
| Starring | Thomas Lennon Kerri Kenney Michael Ian Black |
| Theme music composer | Glen Roven |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Kent Alterman Paul Miller Jim Sharp |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Comedy Central |
| Original run | April 1, 1997 – December 1, 1999 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Reno 911! The State |
| External links | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
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The show featured many people who were a part of the comedy troupe The State. The State was a half-hour sketch- Comedy Television show originally broadcast on MTV between December 17, 1993 and Lennon and Kenney went on to produce another Comedy Central show, Reno 911! Michael Ian Black later appeared on the Comedy Central show Stella. Reno 911! is an American Comedy television series on Comedy Central that debuted in 2003. Stella is a short-lived Television series that originally ran from June 28 2005 to August 30 2005 on the American television channel Comedy Central
Sketches
Though Mr. Laupin, the former Mrs. Laupin, and Johnny Blue Jeans were themselves characters, the show did not utilize recurring characters or resort to impersonations. Often, the troupe would address or involve the audience directly; in one theme of this vein, Mr. Laupin and the former Mrs. Laupin would do an old-fashioned plug for their fake sponsor during actual airtime.
One in particular had the former Mrs. Laupin asking consumers to ignore or fix errors on their sponsor's products, including a cereal, “Sweety Balls”, in which the second e was replaced with an a.
The other common sketch theme was a game show with an odd premise, such as “Plant or Animal”, where an audience member was asked to attribute a few seconds-long recording to either an animal or Robert Plant. Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948 West Bromwich, England) is an English rock singer and songwriter famous for his membership in the This proved more difficult than one might anticipate.
Another sketch of this style was “Klingon or Galliano”, where an audience member was shown runway models in various outfits and was asked if they were wearing costumes for Klingons from the science fiction series Star Trek or made by fashion designer John Galliano. Klingons ( Klingon: tlhIngan; Pronunciation /ˈt͡ɬɪŋɑn/ are a warrior race in the fictional Star Trek universe Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano Guillén, CBE, RDI (born November 28 1960) professionally known as John Galliano, is a Gibraltarian This also proved more difficult than one might anticipate. The participant's consolation prize of a tribble coat, presented by an allergic Johnny Blue Jeans, made light of Galliano's controversial use of fur. Tribbles are fictional animals in the Star Trek universe They are depicted as small soft and gentle and as producing a soothing Purring sound
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