Sonny Bono

Sonny Bono is the host-partner on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, the bobblehead grin across from Cher's Bob Mackie armor. Variety as a couple brand: sketches, songs, marital digs that stopped feeling like a bit. Bono plays the straight man the hour requires — not a sidekick parked beside the gowns, half of a public marriage the camera treated as the format.

Bono entered The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour as Host and stayed a person. s01e01 — Show 1 is the couple-brand open. Sonny's bobblehead grin, Cher's Mackie armor: variety. CBS, 1971–1974. The frame the ritual requires. That 1971–1974 stamp is the folder, not a dare to finish every week. Bono is already doing the job as host. Bono still belongs in the frame when s01e01 lands: Show 1 is the couple-brand open. Sonny's bobblehead grin, Cher's Mackie armor: variety. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour on CBS (1971–1974) keeps using him as host.

Skip the clip farm. s01e14 is a real hour for Bono. Show 14 is first-season variety muscle. Sibling-to-nobody, couple-to-franchise: the hour still sequins and putdowns. s02e01 if you want the other listed coordinate. Show 20, billed as a series premiere, is the brand restated. Marital digs still. Enough spine: s01e01 for the door, s01e14 for the turn. The rest is appetite.

Then the divorce became a plot twist the living room had to watch. On TV Flash he is 1970s variety craft: the reason the hour was a partnership, and the reason the partnership still photographs as comedy that could not keep the gossip off the set.