variety show バラエティショー.

variety show 台灣叫”綜藝節目”。 在英文Wikipedia這條，還拿台灣的「綜藝大哥大 假笑聲」修理一番。


variety show 日文採取音譯バラエティショー.，所以如果沒參考諸如下述解釋，你搞不太清楚variety show是什麼，尤其是Yahoo的辭典用「雜耍表演」。

variety (ENTERTAINMENT)
noun [U]
a type of entertainment which includes several separate short performances, such as singing, dancing, magic tricks and telling jokes:
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

va・ri・e・ty
━━ n. 変化, 多様（性）; 寄せ集め; 種類; 【生物】変種 ((of)); バラエティショー.
a variety of　色々な.
variety meat　くず肉; 臓物.
variety show [entertainment]　バラエティショー.
variety store　雑貨店.


綜藝大哥大
Another of today's variety shows in Asia is Taiwan's Variety Big Brother. Taiwanese variety shows are infamous for its constant use of artificial laugh tracks even though there is a studio audience.
Japanese television programs such as Music Station and Utaban continue in an almost pristine format from the same variety shows of years before. The only major changes have been the increasing dissapearance of live backup music since the 1980s.

最近日本的一個variety show：「人間！これでいいのだ」（The show, "Ningen! Korede Iinoda" (Humans! This is how it goes),） ，因（非法）引用科學論文（錯誤的解釋）而公開道歉。
TBS apologizes for exaggerating theory on hypersonic sounds, memory
02/08/2007
The Asahi Shimbun

ＴＢＳ、「頭の良くなる音」でおわび　表現に行き過ぎ
2007年02月08日00時15分

2007-02-09 01:35:06