Couch Sale…

Fishpo31

RIP to one of the great interviewers of our tim….
https://youtu.be/eFVZvQWauyk?si=THvHNIQZ8ywj6H-R

YellowSnow

My frens call me Keith. You can call me John.

RaceBannon

Their TV show was at that weird intersection of the late 60s where corporate America and CBS met the growing counter culture

They got canceled. Funny show though

RaceBannon

When "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" debuted on CBS in the fall of 1967 it was an immediate hit, to the surprise of many who had assumed the network's expectations were so low it positioned their show opposite the top-rated "Bonanza."

But the Smothers Brothers would prove a turning point in television history, with its sharp eye for pop culture trends and young rock stars such as the Who and Buffalo Springfield, and its daring sketches — ridiculing the Establishment, railing against the Vietnam War and portraying members of the era's hippie counterculture as gentle, fun-loving spirits — found an immediate audience with young baby boomers. The show reached No. 16 in the ratings in its first season.

It also drew the ire of network censors, and after years of battling with the brothers over the show's creative content, the network abruptly canceled the program in 1970, accusing the siblings of failing to submit an episode in time for the censors to review.

PurpleThrobber

On one of their "Smothers Brothers" television shows, Tom Smothers unintentionally sparked a firestorm of controversy when he innocently said as a joke, "Easter is when Jesus comes out of his tomb, and if he sees his shadow he goes back in, and we get six more weeks of winter.".


One of the Throbbers two dads dropped that joke every Easter.

PurpleThrobber

Interesting tidbit

On the 1969 John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band song "Give Peace a Chance", he plays guitar and shares the bed with John and Yoko - and he also gets a mention in the lyrics - "Ev'rybody's talking about John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rose Marie, Tommy Smothers".