I know what America needs. I don’t mean I can solve our myriad political and social problems. That’s an impossible task for anyone to challenge.

But I know what to do so we can all smile again, as long as we forget all those political and social problems. This may sound ambitious, but I know how to make everyone happy again.

All I need to do is to convince some of the biggest stars of television and movies to band together for a televised weekly variety show. Oh, and I need to convince a network to broadcast the show.

No big deal, right?

I fondly remember the bygone days of television when the people we loved would show up on the Carol Burnett Show or the Love Boat or Battle of the Network Stars. However, the whole notion of branding – as well as network competition – has stopped a lot of that.

“Scrubs,” one of my favorite shows ever, tried to reunite all the people who had an impact on the life of J.D., the main character, in the finale. But some actors could not do it because their current show on another network would not agree to the appearance.

These walls have started to come down a little since then, partially because of the Internet. Actors who are friends off screen will work together on a small project for online release just for fun. Adam Scott from “Parks & Recreation” has led four installments of “The Greatest Event in Television History,” which are merely goofy remakes of old television intro segments padded with hysterical back stories.

Watching those as well as clips from “Saturday Night Live” and some of the late night talk shows convinced me that we need to harness all these forces into one weekly hour-long show that will eventually solve all of our problems.

We can individually surf the Internet and share links for a laugh, but why not focus the star power into sixty minutes one night a week? The cast does not have to be regular – one week we can feature Paul Rudd, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler and Mindy Kaling while the next can spotlight Tina Fey, Jennifer Lawrence, Adam Scott and Jon Hamm.

And, of course, Justin Timberlake will stop by every week just because.

I defy you to find someone who would not find this concept entertaining. Zooey Deschannel could swing by to sing a little, possibly a duet with Ed Helms playing the banjo that sounds awful on paper, but would ultimately end up charming us. Then there would be a sketch that somehow involved James Franco, Sandra Bullock, Adam Palley and Alyson Hannigan.

If you like to waste time like I do and follow some of these folks on social media, you would see that they really want to do something like this. We need to stop searching  the Internet for clips of their funny work from various shows and pack it all into one, big package.

Of course, whatever network agreed to broadcast this would probably put it at 10 p.m., and I would never be able to stay awake for it so I would have to watch the clips individually online. But the show would exist, and we would all be happier. That’s what really counts.