Viva Variety

Viva Variety is an American variety and sketch comedy program created by Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon and Michael Ian Black.
==Episode List==
* The following is a work-in-progress list of episodes of Viva Variety sorted by airdate. As Comedy Central themselves have never officially titled episodes of the series, our wiki titles them by their respective season and episode number.
===Season 1===
No.	No.	Premiere date 	Name 	Prod.	Notes
1 	1 	April 1, 1997Internal documentation	/Season 1, Episode 1/ 	104 	Guests include: The Bandbaz Brothers, Shudder to Think.Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
2 	2 	April 8, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 2/ 	102 	Guests include: Ben Stiller, They Might Be Giants, Larry Cisewski.https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.tmbg/c/jTZKAYB9HM8/m/8XH8QOBqbDkJ
3 	3 	April 15, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 3/ 	103 	Details to be determined.
4 	4 	April 22, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 4/ 	106 	Guests include: Stevie Starr, Eartha Kitt and the Eartha Kitt Band.News-Journal (Mansfield, Ohio)
5 	5 	April 29, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 5/ 	105 	Guests include: Ray Wold, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.Evansville Press (Evansville, Indiana)
6 	6 	May 6, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 6/ 	101 	Guests include: Janeane Garofalo, Cibo Matto, Tino Ferrere.
7 	7 	May 13, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 7/ 	110 	Guests include: Guests include: Erik Estrada, Ken Willer, "The Dangerous Golfer."The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida)
8 	8 	May 20, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 8/ 	109 	Details to be determined.
9 	9 	May 27, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 9/ 	111 	Guests include: Allison Bly, King Changó.The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida)
10 	10 	June 3, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 10/	107 	Details to be determined.
11 	11 	June 10, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 11/	108 	Details to be determined.
12 	12 	June 17, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 12/	112 	Details to be determined.
13 	13 	June 24, 1997 	/Season 1, Episode 13/	113 	Guests include: Kathy Griffin, Sun Zhe, Run DMC, Ally Sheedy.
===Season 2===
No.	No.	Premiere date 	Name 	Prod.	Notes
14 	1 	December 10, 1997	/Season 2, Episode 1/ 	206 	Guests include: John Evans, The Fabulous Friedkin Brothers, Reel Big Fish.The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota)
15 	2 	December 16, 1997	/Season 2, Episode 2/ 	209 	Guests include: Duran Duran, Brackney's Madcap Mutts, Benihana Orchestra.The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, Florida)
16 	3 	December 23, 1997	/Season 2, Episode 3/ 	210 	Guests include: Yaw Haw Chin, Luscious Jackson.Sentinel Tribune (Bowling Green, Ohio)
17 	4 	December 30, 1997	/Season 2, Episode 4/ 	212 	Salute to the top U.S. presidents. Guests include: Arturo Alegria, G. Love & Special Sauce.St. Joseph News-Press (St. Joseph, Missouri)
18 	5 	January 6, 1998 	/Season 2, Episode 5/ 	211 	Guests include: Tom Mullica, the Cigarette Man, Fishbone.Paradise Post (Paradise, California)
19 	6 	January 13, 1998 	/Season 2, Episode 6/ 	204 	Guests include: Robin Leach, Yan Yan and Yan Ping Zhao, The Pizzicato Five.
20 	7 	January 20, 1998 	/Season 2, Episode 7/ 	202 	Guests include: Abe Vigoda, Larissa, Sister Hazel.
21 	8 	January 27, 1998 	/Season 2, Episode 8/ 	207 	Guests include: Sandra Bernhard, Byung Nam Yim, Royal Crown Revue.The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, Indiana)
22 	9 	February 3, 1998 	/Season 2, Episode 9/ 	201 	Guests include: Mr. Gumby, Ric Ocasek.Times-Press-Recorder (Arroyo Grande, California)
23 	10 	February 10, 1998	/Season 2, Episode 10/	205 	Guests include: Chester Cable, the "Table Spinning Man", Dionne Warwick, Chuck Jackson.
24 	11 	February 17, 1998	/Season 2, Episode 11/	203 	Guests include: Jim Varney, Maceo Parker.
25 	12 	February 24, 1998	/Season 2, Episode 12/	208 	Guests include: Stacy Keach, Ray Wold, Toots & the Maytals.
26 	13 	March 3, 1998 	/Season 2, Episode 13/	213 	Guests include: Veniamin, Arrow.
===Vegas Special===
No.	Premiere date	Name 	Prod.	Notes
27 	July 28, 1998	/Viva in Vegas Special/	001 	Guests include: David Cassidy, Susan Anton, Jack Jones.
===Season 3===
No.	No.	Premiere date 	Name 	Prod.	Notes
28 	1 	August 4, 1998 	/Season 3, Episode 1/ 	303 	Guests include: Shelley Long, The Torries.Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan)
29 	2 	August 11, 1998 	/Season 3, Episode 2/ 	302 	Details to be determined.
30 	3 	August 18, 1998 	/Season 3, Episode 3/ 	301 	Guests include: Tommy Davidson, Wailing Souls.The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
31 	4 	August 25, 1998 	/Season 3, Episode 4/ 	304 	Details to be determined.
32 	5 	September 8, 1998 	/Season 3, Episode 5/ 	305 	Guests include: Bobcat Goldthwait, Eve 6.Longview Daily News (Longview, Washington)
33 	6 	September 15, 1998	/Season 3, Episode 6/ 	306 	Guests include: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jonathan Richman.
34 	7 	September 22, 1998	/Season 3, Episode 7/ 	307 	Guests include: RuPaul, Charles Durning, Shonen Knife.
35 	8 	October 6, 1998 	/Season 3, Episode 8/ 	308 	Guests include: Whoopi Goldberg, Dag.Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
36 	9 	N/A 	/Season 3, Episode 9/ 	309 	Comedy Central's official documentation lists episode #309 as premiering on October 13, 1998, though every available newspaper listing describes that airing as a rerun. Details to be determined.
37 	10 	October 20, 1998 	/Viva Variety Wedding Spectacular/	310 	Guests include: Nell Carter, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, The Radio City Rockettes.
==Undocumented Episodes==
Because of the vagueness and obscurity of Viva Variety's documentation, there are certain episodes we currently cannot decipher when or where in the show's episode list it originally premiered. Additionally, some of these episodes do not exist in any recorded form to our knowledge. The following are the newspaper listing descriptions verbatim for said unknown episodes. Attached are details about their earliest known reruns.
===Walter Koenig, Marshall Crenshaw, Yogi Baird, Dick Clark (Season 1)===
* Earliest documented rerun is a July 19, 1997 airing at 10:30pm sourced from The Miami Herald listed as "Walter Koenig, Marshall Crenshaw, Yogi Baird, Dick Clark"
** This airing falls outside of Viva Variety's original first season run and cannot be considered the premiere date. Additionally, episodes of the series premiered at 10:00pm throughout the entire run.
* As of March 2023, there are no recordings of this episode publicly available for viewing.
===Gilbert Gottfried, The Hartzells, Squirrel Nut-Zippers (Season 1)===
* Earliest documented rerun is an August 19, 1997 airing at 10:00pm sourced from The Miami Herald listed as "Hartzells; Squirrel Nut Zippers; David "Buster Poindexter" Johansen."
** This airing falls outside of Viva Variety's original first season run and cannot be considered the premiere date.
* One copy of this episode has surfaced online titled "S01E05" and introduces the guests as "Tonight, comedian Gilbert Gottfried, crossbow experts the Hartzells and the big, bad sounds of Squirrel Nut-Zippers!".Archive.org upload by anarchivism, titled "Viva Variety S01E05"
** While this upload claims this episode is Season 1, Episode 5, there are glaring inaccuracies throughout the playlist of episodes provided by the uploader. Additionally, the fifth episode (both in airdate order and production order) has had its guests and contents already accounted for as Ray Wold and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
==References==
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