Variety show \Variety show\
A stage entertainment, live or televised, of successive
separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic
feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or
any specialties. When performed live in a theater, it was
often called a {vaudeville show}, but when television became
a dominant form of entertainment live vaudeville performances
almost completely ceased.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]