Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour | FULL EPISODE | September 15, 1972 - The Jackson Five, Ronald Reagan

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

I have great memories of watching Sonny and Cher with my entire family. I was 9 in 1972.

[@helenpatterson3858]

. good to remember how my mom sewed me up Cher bell- bottom pants when I was 14 years old. Wow... I knew she loved me doing that.

[@paperboy8865]

To all the haters…I can only assume you’re too young to have lived through the 1970’s. It was a totally different time, in every way. Families ate dinner together & watched TV together. You didn’t have instant access to all things that were trendy or what celebrities were doing. You found out by watching TV or reading the newspaper, which EVERYONE did. You’d see someone singing a song on TV and you’d go buy it. You’d find out what all the new stars looked like & sounded like from TV. Virtually everyone either starred or guest starred on TV shows. And variety shows were huge. Millions of women watched Sonny & Cher just to see what she would wear each week. It was exciting to see what people were wearing, doing & saying. You had 3 or so channels to choose from & there was the “movie of the week.” And yes, it was actually exciting because during the day people went to work and children played outside until dinner time. You saw your friends. You didn’t text them. Nighttime was family time. And the next day everyone talked about who they watched or what they saw. Believe it or not it kept everyone in the loop. We all went to the movies, the burger place, the skating rink or the mall & spent our money on the latest records, toys, posters or fast food that was popular. And you found out about it from TV commercials. There were no commercials about drugs like today. They were almost all about cars, food, toys & cleaning products. Case in point: Farrah Fawcett was unknown until Charlie’s Angels debuted in 1976. Suddenly in stores there were pillows, books, notebooks, stickers, trading cards, hair products & of course, her infamous poster! Overnight she became the most recognized woman on the planet from a silly TV show. And with only 3 networks there was something for everyone. And you couldn’t wait to see what was on the following week. Life was simple & I suppose dull compared to now. If you watch shows from the 1950s today everything seemed glamorous & everyone was happy. It was postwar & it was & they were. After working on my computer & checking my emails & my text messages I grab something to eat & if I I’m lucky, see my kids for a few minutes. I have a nice home, a new car & all the conveniences I could want. And I can stream whatever I want to watch. And most nights I think to myself, “it sure was nice back in the seventies.”

[@AngelCatBaby]

How I can agree with you on this…thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us….it was like that in the 1950s as well, and children weren’t allowed vulgar language in the homes, plus they were responsible for getting their school work done, and didn’t have the luxury of calculators or computers, and calling friends was calling on a landline that may have had others sharing the same line, operators were directing calls to whomever you wanted to talk with….businesses actually performed business objectives in a closed room conference table. Nowadays you don’t have to be present there in person, just send in an AI intelligence interface and hope you will be heard and make a difference in the business….will it be you or a facsimile of you that they recognize and that’s there instead? Give me the good old days when contacting someone in person was important, and not just a facet of your imagination where you can change your age and looks by the flick of a switch or the touch of a keyboard/button. Humanity is becoming slaves to machines and losing itself in CGI and AI intelligence interfaces and internet falsehoods of cyberspace where anything which is there can go POOOOFFFFFFffff in an instant, lost forever into unseen space. This is NOT humanity’s greatest achievement…..ITS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE INDOOR PLUMBING and ELECTRICITY, INCLUDING MEDICINAL HEALTHCARE….ALL OTHERS ARE FOOLISH VANITY AND EGOTISTICAL SELFISH ENDEAVORS AND VALUES.

[@4oyageryramaira269]

i love you!

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

My thoughts exactly. TV watching was a shared experience. We'd be watching a show and we knew that all of our friends were watching it at the same time. The next day at school, we'd all be talking about it. I was born in 1963. A great time to be a child!

[@DStuart-s1q]

Sorry, but you're talking about a tiny, tiny sliver of middle-class society. We didn't have a TV for years, my dad beat us kids and we were expected to get a job at 13. You lived in a fantasy world. Not my world.

[@roselamoure]

The seventies were a pretty horrible time actually when you think about it, sure nostalgia can happen and we like to miss the old times because life seemed simpler but keep in mind, many women were heavily sexualized, abused and raped by men in those times, women were nothing but objects of desire and lust, men treated them like animals piece of meat, there was no equality, a lot of racism although better than the 50s there was still a lot of discrimination, you had to be extremely skinny where you had to starve yourself otherwise you would be called fat even if you were at a normal weight, life was depressing and people didn’t talk or were aware of mental illnesses, lots and lots of crimes, crazy drugs and psychedelics and it was normalized to take them, lots of political issues and protests and a lot of poverty. Times back than were not as amazing as you actually think they were, maybe if you were rich or didn’t have to worry about money it was alright but it was a very hard time for a lot of people, lots of people struggled mentally and financially and there was crazy poverty in many places, parents abused their children some even married them off. Life was dull, depressing and people didn‘t have morals by any means. I watch 70s movies or shows and people were animals back then sleeping with literally everyone, nobody was loyal to their partners and people just had sex as if there was no tomorrow no wonder many people developed STD and other diseases and illnesses, people had weird ways of thinking and if you were not married by a certain age they considered you leftover. It was awful times, if anything nowadays everything is much better, more tolerance, understanding and people want to make everything better for everyone and mental health awareness and trying to have equality. The 70s might have been amazing in music but that was quite literally it, I could never imagine living in such a psychotic crazy time. Life is much more handy and easier in many ways, yes it‘s more expensive but we have opportunities that nobody ever in human history had, that‘s pretty amazing.

[@barryjacobs8524]

52 years old. Great show. It’s sad because 2024 we know what the future was for these talented entertainers. Cher beautiful and still is. Michael and Sonny not with us anymore. This program was great. The magic of u tube we can still see them all. They will live forever. Never say goodbye. RIP sonny and Michael.😢

[@victorkreitner754]

Don't forget Tito Jackson to who passed just recently

[@anthonykimball7463]

The original Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour featured one of THE BEST intros ever done for a prime-time network variety show.

[@jude1515]

Cher was and still is beautiful! I think Sonny was the drive behind the show. They were such a cool couple. I think people were sorry for them when things didn’t work out.

[@pika23]

I mean jackson 5, sonny wnd cher, and brady bunch all existing at the same time! What a time to be alive!

[@Rusty3659]

Sonny And Cher and The Brady Bunch were literally existing against each other, because they aired opposite each other on Friday nights, while NBC showed Sanford And Son.

[@mthivier]

The song they opened with, "Let Me Down Easy", was from Cher's then-current solo album, FOXY LADY.

[@musicroom7185]

I was 9 when this was originally broadcast. It was after my bedtime, so I had to listen from another room. What I recall is that I had trouble telling which singing voice was Sonny & which was Cher!

[@tonyvargas368]

I was only 3 yo when this premiered but I remember watching their show with my parents. I thought they were awesome.

[@jchow5966]

Fantastic I loved this show. I remember watching this episode when it aired!!! 💟☮️💟☮️. Network TV was great back then!!!!!

[@t.b.g.504]

Cher = Eye Candy, no matter what she wore!

[@tiredofliars]

She is 26 here, perfection.

[@gabecrawford55]

Her beauty is beyond her years!

[@pwp8737]

why, has she aged since then? proof that vampires exist.

[@AngelCatBaby]

How I miss Sonny and Cher and there show, completely awesome, lots of good ad-libbing, and MJ was unique among his brothers even then…loved watching it and was anxiously awaiting the next week and making guesses on who they might have appearing on it next week…..thank you for sharing this and bringing the magic of TV back ❤to this elderly woman …..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@cyndieterrell347]

Loves it ! ❤thank you for the memories!

[@jeffwilliams936]

The song Micheal Jackson sings , ''Ben'' was the theme song from the movie by the same name about a rat ..the sequel to the horror movie ''Willard ''.

[@pika23]

Haha for some reason i remember cher in this costume from the opening...im a 78 baby, so im guessing i saww this on a rerun.

[@pika23]

Yes I did I remember the nose joke 🤣

[@AngelCatBaby]

Yes and so did I…🤣

[@Professorkenneth]

Cher was sexy back then🙏🏻🥰 i can't believe im watching this😅. I'm not into them but they were great together 👍🏻

[@brendaamata9233]

Drop dead gorgeous!!

[@kingbolo4579]

When they do the song at the end, I really can't tell if Sonny is mugging like that and doing the cheesy dancing because he's being comedy guy, or if he actually thought that's how you sell this kind of song.

[@chrishansen9357]

a more innocent time.

[@GeorgeOliver-mp8wj]

😢❤GOD BLESS 😊😅🎉

[@chrishansen9357]

Steve Martin is a writer here.

[@chrysostom8987]

over the many years I've wach all kinds of shows a lot of people trying to be like shair but no one can be her she is the one and only 🌹💋🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶.

[@FlipDahlenburg]

The drums at the intro and the wah-wah guitar must be the same to guys who played on 'The Bob Newhart Show' intro!

[@JoanSmith-t7k]

Some people wondered then, why were Cher’s legs always covered by those long gowns? Was there something wrong with them?

[@tiredofliars]

Michael is 14 here, the song Ben is from the movie of the same name. A horror film where a man uses rats to kill people. Ben was the main rat.

[@mlongpre100]

'guns don't kill people , trees do !'

[@tiredofliars]

Actually, it was likely the same assassin that got Michael Kennedy, they both died skiing into trees. How many people do that? How many famous people do that? How many famous Republicans do that?

[@pika23]

26 years later and still. Too soon. Lmao😂 .

[@DomenicL-h5m]

He must of been high as a kite that day

[@ceciliazderic214]

Hahaha! Trees! 😂

[@kingbolo4579]

Strange there's no cast list. Is that Hans Conried in the commercials opera near the end? I'll have to check IMDB.

[@chrishansen9357]

Howard Keel plays Cher's father.

[@kingbolo4579]

@@chrishansen9357 That's not what I was thinking of. There's no mistaking Howard Keel.

[@tiredofliars]

So many commercial memes!

[@johndoe-vc7pd]

Do you have episodes from October 6, 1972, March 7, 1973, October 17, 1973, and December 5, 1973? also do you have any Sonny & Cher Show episodes?

[@JewelJewelBitler]

This is Sonny and Cher?

[@johndoe-vc7pd]

@@JewelJewelBitler this is comedy hour. they made a new show a few years later just called the sonny and cher show

[@JewelJewelBitler]

​@@johndoe-vc7pdThey had a summer replacement show. Then around Christmas the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour premiered.

[@GARY6661967]

How the he'll did a chuckle brother end up with such a beauty?.

[@karenhill3970]

Cannot go her ANYMORE...

[@jfboomerang1310]

Is this hard to watch for anyone else? I can't watch it.

[@clivesmith9377]

Couldn't be more awful. Not even Michael Jackson could save this really boring show.

[@gabecrawford55]

Hey! There's a lot of us having a good time! If you don't like it, check out the millions of other videos on KZbin. Don't ruin our fun! ✌️

[@GARY6661967]

It's always hard for me watching cher 😅

[@AngelCatBaby]

Cher is still a beautiful woman no matter what age she is…👍

[@DonnaLombardo-n5i]

​@@clivesmith9377you're nuts today's shows are Horrible and Boring this was a great show

[@Светлана-р4л5ч]

Ему вообще не идут усы.Он похож на белорусского колхозника. Есть видео 1966 года, где они поют "Little man" Вот там он без усов, чуть полнее, не такой худосочный, очень симпатичный.

[@barbaramoore5193]

A great big beautiful what?!?! by her name?

[@COBYKOEHL2]

Mind-blowing ❤

[@davemathews7890]

Cher was magnificent but, honestly, this show was dreadful.

[@DomenicL-h5m]

It was not at all

[@davemathews7890]

@@DomenicL-h5m Look at the other comments. Other people disliked the show too.

[@gabecrawford55]

We're having fun! If you don't like the vibe, there's other options. ✌️

[@davemathews7890]

​@@gabecrawford55 Nice way to attract people to your channel. It's not enough to tell the queens that you like Cher. You have to love that shitty TV show she had as well.

[@davemathews7890]

@@gabecrawford55 UNSUBSCRIBE

[@josephgregorio5813]

Ugh

[@DonnaLombardo-n5i]

Go away

[@COBYKOEHL2]

Michael WAS genius

[@clivesmith9377]

Couldn't be more awful. Not even Michael Jackson could save this really boring show.

[@gabecrawford55]

Honestly, what is the purpose of this comment? If you don't like it, move on. There's many more videos on KZbin to enjoy. There's plenty of us here having a good time. ✌️

[@tiredofliars]

Well, back in 1972, we had three choices, a movie from 1963 - Cleopatra or worse, a movie staring Sean Connery's younger brother as a detective. So, of the three options we had, this one was by far the best.

[@voulafisentzidis8830]

This was the formula for what were referred to as variety shows at that time in Hollywood. The jokes may have been lame but Cher was always spectacular!

[@DonnaLombardo-n5i]

​@@voulafisentzidis8830it was ten times better than anything today

[@voulafisentzidis8830]

@@DonnaLombardo-n5i I agree!