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.
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 the ones 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. stick them up. 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.
this is the smothers brothers comedy air. take one. production 124 air, take one. 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 more often in the spotlight. these two programs have consciously tried to influence people by comedy techniques that break through the traditional 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