Variety Big Brother

Variety Big Brother is a television show hosted by Chang Fei, a.k.a. Fei Ge, which screens on Taiwanese channel China Television on Saturdays, but taped a week before its broadcast. It is representative of the format and style common to Taiwanese comedy-variety shows, with amateur performances and a vast number of Taiwanese celebrities. Every week the show has celebrity guests and performers from Taiwan and/or abroad. Despite being billed as a talent-based show, much of the show focuses directly on comedic banter between the host and the guests.

The program is split into two separate types of performances. The first segment uses amateur performances and the second segment uses magic performances, all judged by celebrity guests. Earlier episodes typically have comedy sketches with the main cast.

Like most Taiwanese variety shows, there are frequent on-screen displays , stock sound effects and a laugh track .

Chang's brother, Fei Yu Ching, a well-known classical singer, is a frequent guest.

Co-host Ni Min Jan failed to appear in several shows, and it was later revealed he had committed suicide after learning his wife had allegedly had an affair.

It is shown in the United States on the San Francisco Bay Area-based television station KTSF, which shows much Chinese-language programming for the area, under the English translation ''Big Brother of Entertainment'', the literal translation of the Chinese title.

Many non-Asian viewers had criticised the constant use of laugh tracks since the program is promoted to be a talent show.