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Featuring sketches, spoofs of TV shows and appearances by guest stars like Howie Mandel, Steve Allen, Pat Morita (of ''[[Karate Kid]]'' fame), Murray "The unknown Comic" Langston and Redd Foxx. ''
And by the way, [[Mike Myers]] appeared on the show as Timmy Byner.
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** Howie Mandel also guested on the show and went on to do ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'', ''[[Bobby's World]]'' and ''[[Deal or No Deal]]''
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: John Byner voiced the titular characters of ''[[The Ant and the Aardvark]]'' and would go on to voice Gurgi in 1985's ''[[The Black Cauldron]]''
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Though the show is on DVD in its uncensored Showtime version, the ''Best of
* [[Missing Episode]]: 10 volumes of ''The Best of
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Byner's interaction with members of the studio audience and/or Bob Einstein (who was the show's co-producer) demolished the forth wall. Einstein would also halt a sketch.
* [[Regional Bonus]]: (overlap with ''Better on DVD'') As mentioned above (see ''Edited for Syndication''), the American showtime version included nudity and coarse language not found in the CTV version
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: A staple joke of the show which included Richard Nixon telling host John Byner (who played Nixon in the sketch), not to "make the mistake I did", but instead to "burn the tapes", and an ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.]]'' parody, where the E.T. character was the children's grandfather who couldn't even bear to be in the house while they were watching ''
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