Where To Watch The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

About The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was an American variety show starring American pop-singer Cher and her husband Sonny Bono. The show ran on CBS in the United States, when it premiered in August 1971. The show was canceled May 1974, due to the couple's divorce, though the duo would reunite in 1976 for the identically-formatted The Sonny & Cher Show (a title sporadically used during the run of the Comedy Hour ), which ran until 1977. In 1971, Sonny & Cher had stopped producing hit singles. Cher's first feature film, Chastity , was not a success, and the duo decided to sing and tell jokes in nightclubs across the country. CBS head of programming Fred Silverman saw them one evening and offered them their own show. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was originally supposed to be a summer replacement series, but high ratings gave Silverman sufficient reason to bring it back later that year, with a...