but the other people let loose on the show were this kind of young vaudeville. it s sock it to me time. hey, she socked it to herself. we knew that sock it to me didn t mean sock it to me. right? so we thought, oh. sock it to me. sock it to me. sock it to me? it wasn t as subversive as it sounds. yes, it was. it was fun. sock it to me? was the first time presidential candidate had ever appeared on a comedy show. and that may have got him elected, and i ve had to live with that. anyway. the family that watches laugh-in together really needs to pray together. just seemed like it s happening right now and it s about right now that is the greatest thing ever.
it didn t get any better when it went to color. dr. smith, you re alive. of course, i m alive. do i look like a corpse? the period has a reputation for being tv as a kind of candy. sometimes it felt like there was in really aggressive innocence to it. you re only to blow that in an emergency. this is an emergency, you re standing on my foot! gilligan s island made no sense whatsoever logistically. how is the professor able to build all this stuff but not build a damn raft? this stick of dynamite that i made. it makes no sense if you pull any single thread on it, but it was just like the kind of show designed to live forever in syndication. who are you looking for? the nun. who else? are you kidding? flying nun is the most it s a crazy show. like what is that about? look, carlos, it s very simple. i only weigh 90 pounds and the combination of my cornet and the wind lifts me. it was just complete nonsense, let s face it.
and we didn t change them. we just reflected them. i can t hear you. what are you doing? i m getting ready to go to college. cbs gave the smothers brothers that show because they were clean-cut folk satirists. you know, they wore blazers. they could sing well. they were funny. mom liked you best! you lower your voice. mom liked you best. they told us what they thought we could do and what we should do, and it was totally wrong. and tommy came in saying, i would like a show where we can be relevant. if we could get a war without blood and gore i would be the first to go but until then mr. mcnamara i m only 18 and i always carry a purse the people in the counterculture started making these shows and they don t want to play by the rules that other people did before then. but who would expect the smothers brothers of all people to be raising this much of a fuss?
pnc. make today the day. i ve got to tell you this one. you know those knock, knock jokes? yeah, but they re old now. i ve got a real good one, i ve got a real funny one. go ahead. start. say it. i say? yeah. knock, knock. who s there? there was only three networks. there was only one late night show, really, and it was jack paar. they don t understand how we do this show. we just keep talking with no script. i know.
good script. i held my breath every time they did the show. because i knew the network people were befouling their trousers with fear. nothing funny in this. yeah, boys, we re through censoring your show. they said that the social subjects we touched on were not appropriate for the 9:00 family viewing hour. they came up with any excuse to make it difficult. and i came up with any excuse to push it. yeah. cbs would like to give us notice and some of you don t like the things we say but we re still here oh yeah we re still here they were going to speak truth to power. and they were not compromising. you have something important? something very important to say on american television. a lot of times we don t have the opportunity to say anything important because on american