of what is new. they re doing is us to refrain from traveling to foreign lands. all you guys in vietnam, come home. the times were changing so kwekly and the 60s and we didn t change them. we just reflected on them. what are you daing? i m getting ready to go to college. cbs gave the smothers brothers that show because they were clean cut satrists. they wore blazers they could sing well, they were funny. mom liked you best. they told us what they thought we should do and could do and it was totally wrong and tommy came in and said we d like to show where we can be relevant. until then mr. mcnamara the people in the
song and skit routines and by subject matter that is often on the cutting edge of what is new. our government is asking us 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
bill, i was interested to read in your notes that richard nixon did not like yes. the smothers brothers program. that s right. which was also political satire. remember watching it at my father s knee and did he really get that killed? can presidents get a tv show killed? it was very highly rated at the time. and it was the saturday night live of its day. very counterculture. had all these hot new comedians on. very against the war. so it they did but that was not saturday night live. it was not an institution. but he really did get it killed because he didn t like it? well he put pressure on cbs for sure. and certainly the smothest brothers believe that s why they were forced off the air. certainly wasn t the ratings. the ratings were very good. another skit that they did was a play on the movie love,actually. this time you had hillary clinton going door-to-door talking to electors. here it is.
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.
foreign lands. okay. all you guys in vietnam, come on home. [ cheers and applause ] 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 i got a ruptured spleen and i always carry a purse the people in the counterculture started making