just happening right now, about right now, that was the greatest thing ever. the fusion of politics and comedy and everything else into one television show. when we take over, i m going to look out for you. the subjects that were verbotent, we don t talk about these things, were starting to come up in tv. because it was well executed, it changed everything. this is the smothers brothers. take 1. good evening and welcome to the smothers brothers show. if rowan and martin and the smothers brothers are the new stars of tv comedy, it is the comedy itself rather than the comedians which is often in the spotlight. these two programs tried to influence people with the comedy and skit routines and subject matter often on the cutting edge of what is new. our government is asking us as good citizens to refrain from
our government is asking us as good citizens to refrain from traveling to foreign lands. okay. all you guys in vietnam, come on home. times were changing so quickly. and the 60s. and we didn t change them. we just reflected them. what are you doing? getting ready to go to college. cbs gave the smothers brothers that show because they were clean-cut folk satirists. 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. tommy said, i would like to do what is relevant. i ll be the first to go, but until then with mr. mcnamera
traveling to foreign lands. okay. all you guys in vietnam, come on home. times were changing so quickly. and the 60s. and we didn t change them. we just reflected them. what are you doing? getting ready to go to college. cbs gave the smothers brothers that show because they were clean-cut folk satirists. 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 should do and what we could do and it was totally wrong. i ll be the first to go, but until then with mr. mcna mera if you were in counter culture started making these shows and they don t want it
and skit routines and subject matter often on the cutting edge of what is new. our government is asking us as good citizens to refrain from traveling to foreign lands. okay. all you guys in vietnam, come on home. times were changing so quickly. and the 60s. and we didn t change them. we just reflected them. what are you doing? getting ready to go to college. cbs gave the smothers brothers that show because they were clean-cut folk satirists. 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 should do and what we could do and it was totally wrong. i ll be the first to go, but until then with mr. mcna mera
i m just 18 and i always carry a purse if you were in counter culture 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 the ones raising this much of a fuss. good script. i would hold my breath every time they did the show. i knew the network people were befelling 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. 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