Chances are that most of the obituaries you’ll read for Tommy Smothers, who died today at 86, will contain something along the lines of, “while mild by today’s standards,” referring to the jabs at the Vietnam War and at President Johnson that got his and his brother Dick’s hugely popular CBS variety show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour cancelled prema…
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