Sorry to report the death of Tommy Smothers, age 86. The report says he died from a recent bout with cancer.
Tommy and Dickie Smothers will always be the subversive, banjo playing comedy duo who burst onto the scene in the 60s. Their CBS variety show in the later 60s launched the careers of people
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The older of the two Smothers Brothers, Tom Smothers was the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium.