fields. he said to me no agent can help you in the position you re in. i like a comedian who i m truly not sure what side he s going to be on an issue. i m not a fan of a stand-up comedian that just reaffirms a status quo. do you believe entertainers should have opinions and express them? most definitely. they got to have opinions like everybody else. do you think entertainers should exert political influence? if they want to. the smothers brothers this was during the 60s. and to be on television at that time and talk about the vietnam war, the sensors were after them all the time. gee sarj i understand now. i m not afraid any more. . i can kill but i still can t vote. the smothers brothers was a
as citizens, good citizens, to refrain from traveling to foreign lands. okay. all you guys in vietnam, come on home. times were changing so quickly in the 60s. 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? 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.
counterculture start making these shows and they don t want to play by the rules other people did before then. but who would expect the smothers brothers to be the ones raising the fuss? i held my breath every time they did the show because i knew what the network people were befouling their trousers with fear. nothing funny in this. we re threw sensoring your show. they said the social subjects we touched on were not appropriate for the 9:00 family viewing hour. they came up with any excuse to maek make it difficult. they would like to give us snow and some of you don t like to think we say but we re still here. oh, yeah, we re still here. they were going to speak truth to pour and they were not
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? 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.