VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

As a child of the Seventies, I recall how everything came to a halt at 9pm for Enjoy Yourself Tonight (EYT). Every household would rush home to watch the two-hour live TVB variety show that broadcast five nights a week. Each episode of the show, which ran from 1967 to 1994, was a star-studded extravaganza of song, dance (who remembers the TVB Dancers?) and comedy. Much like Saturday Night Live, which began a few years later, EYT united families, was the talk of the town the next day, and launched the career of many of Hong Kong’s biggest icons, including comedian Lydia Shum Dinha or “Fei-fei”, who led each night’s closing song.