Recognizing that the world is crowded with the rhythmically challenged, he recently produced a self-instruction video featuring Bobby Burgess and Elaine Balden, stars of a former TVvarietyshow.
He also made regular appearances on The Tonight Show with hosts Jack Paar and then Johnny Carson, The Andy Williams Show and his own TVvariety shows - The Jonathan Winters Show and The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters - in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Saturday evening also saw an anticipated 700 million people watch state television's annual TV gala, a variety performance show in which Celine Dion sang her theme tune from the movie Titanic.
As the host of a Sunday varietyshow that has been on air since the beginnings of TV in the South American nation, Santos, 82, is known among his countrymen for his mix of Regis Philbin-like showmanship and Ted Turner-esque entrepreneurial savvy.