Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, NOW ON DVD at Amazon www.amazon.com/... and www.smothersbrothers.com!
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@Withpeace75977 ай бұрын
Rest In Peace Tom. Beautiful man, beautiful voice.
@ellenbeato6527 ай бұрын
They look so young. I forgot we were ever that young. My family never failed to watch their TV show and they paved the way for Laugh-In
@herman58100 Жыл бұрын
Never missed a show, despite all the troubles of world in those days the Smothers Brothers made us laugh...😄
@Fandangtastic Жыл бұрын
My family would watch them every week. Hilarious. They sang so pretty too.
@veramae409810 ай бұрын
"I uh also sold your race car."
@millenniumman757 ай бұрын
RIP Tom Smothers - December 26, 2023
@SplittTwig7 ай бұрын
😢
@bobp37387 ай бұрын
RIP Tommy. You really made me laugh over the years.
@cynthiarowley719 Жыл бұрын
They got in trouble, lost their show, but we grew up with them, so comedy was never what it once was. Of course we didn't realize they had been around a long time before their groundbreaking show. Beautiful guys!
@GeorgeStar7 ай бұрын
Another icon of my youth bites the dust. So sad.
@carolynbrown33794 жыл бұрын
No one remembers how beautifully they sang and harmonized together as their sound was overshadowed by their comedy.
@DrDespicable4 жыл бұрын
Well, comedy WAS their focus. Folk singers/groups were popping up EVERYWHERE, when they started, so they tackled both music AND comedy.
@francinelima59633 жыл бұрын
They did put out an album called " The Smothers Brothers Sing It Straight"! They harmonized beautifully! I saw them in person in the 90's ,in Atlantic City! The show was great! They were so kind! Afterwards they came out to talk to everyone & let us take pictures with them! They were really down to earth! I went to see them with my father & my sister!They both died shortly after that ! So this was a really sweet last memory of the 3 of us together, laughing & enjoying Tom & Dick's unique & hysterical routines! I will never forget it!
@jamesmccormick2112 жыл бұрын
Saw them live once, and it dawned on me as they sang, hey, they're really good musicians!
@fairyqueen56 Жыл бұрын
I do!!
@damamae950 Жыл бұрын
That's why the comedy worked
@PhilFeedback7 ай бұрын
Rest In Peace Tommy 😢 I’ll always remember the time we saw the Smothers Brothers perform at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. “Dream the Impossible Dream” and then Red river valley were always my favorites!
@robertbishop53574 жыл бұрын
Always loved how they'd start off with a great song and then segway into a silly yet funny monologue/argument.
@taylorharvey79452 жыл бұрын
Duologue, actually. ;-)
@76rjackson7 ай бұрын
Segue. Segway is the stand up 2 wheeled scooter. Segue comes from the latin "follow".
@shellymars996110 ай бұрын
I remember watching this when it aired. I was a teenager at the time and I thought it was hilarious.
@damamae950 Жыл бұрын
Welcome to the fan club, baby! Glad to see they crossed generational bpundaries. They were among our heroes
@anaixtar67936 ай бұрын
I used to look forward to this TV program..... this brings back such memories. Thank you Tommy. RIP...........
@stevenmason82867 ай бұрын
Saw them once live, in CA. guys knew their audience and always delivered. Will be missed.
@MexicoDigDoctor6 ай бұрын
There are few of us left to remember how great they were. I for 1 miss them both immensely.
@markthompson77273 жыл бұрын
My absolute favorite tv show in the 60s!
@constance.bridenbaugh6767 ай бұрын
They were great musicians!!
@dannolson66613 жыл бұрын
Greatest variety show ever!
@MikeM2755 жыл бұрын
@4:20..."I also sold your race car" ... The Smothers Brothers were drag racers. They raced Oldsmobiles in stock eliminator. Their car and engine builder is a good friend, Jimmy Waibel (who also built an Olds race motor for my car), they were a good and well known race team way back when...something the casual Smothers Brothers fan may not know...
@willoughby1888 Жыл бұрын
My first car in '76 was a '67 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with a 425 ci Super Rocket engine. It wasn't a special race motor, but loved that car. It flew! I was one of the fastest vehicles in L.A. freeway traffic. Other cars seemed as if gnats easily avoided through using speed and focus. Car didn't have a race motor but I sure did. I was 19; gregarious and audacious. Car was too. Bought it for $230, tx title and registration included. Sold it for twice as much a year later to a cripple guy in Berkeley. He was going to have it retro-fitted for arm controls. It was worn when I bought it, poor thing. It nickeled and dimed me out of my union job double-shift paychecks every month, poor me and my empty wallet. It sure ran well and had decent interior though. I could live out of that car if I had to. That car, a hammock and I'd own the world... well maybe throw in a kayak? I enjoyed what you shared. Maine said to say hello. Laugh often... be fun knee.
@DaveDunning-st1hh7 ай бұрын
They had their own California wine label too !
@allentate37609 ай бұрын
I was lucky to see them in concert in 2007. Third row center!
@johnrucker-vy5in Жыл бұрын
Always my one of my favorite shows. In my freshman year of college, Sunday night was the Smothers brothers and Mission Impossible.
@jerrymoyers7496 Жыл бұрын
I rem when I was a kid, watching them. I loved their comedy, but I always wanted to hear more of their singing.
@DrDespicable4 жыл бұрын
"I'd tell ya, but you wouldn't do it..." Pure Tommy Smothers!
@CriswellKOL3 жыл бұрын
And Dick's reaction - The brothers are so good, you can't tell if it's a genuine reaction to Tom's ad lib or if it was scripted.
@susantownsend8397 Жыл бұрын
Loved them. As so often happens, older brother Tommy was actually the serious business-minded member of the duo while Dick was frivolous playboy. They were must-see tv when we didn’t have any way to record shows or constant reruns.
@raydonica67237 ай бұрын
Those two nuts have me laughing too much. I miss them..
@bjmckinneyjr81995 жыл бұрын
I am only 33 years old and just discovered the Smothers Brothers like 3 days ago on an episode of Jack Benny. They were so funny on his show that I just had to look them up and see if they had any other skits I could watch. I love these guys. They r absolutely hilarious and can sing like crazy. I never thought I would learn that they were so into the Nation's issues and even more so that they would speak freely about how they felt. I think they are just amazing and I am so glad I happened to catch them when I did
@soonerjane89665 жыл бұрын
need to see his "Yo-Yo man" - he's talented
@chuckcap68785 жыл бұрын
As a kid back around 1961, they appeared with Jack Paar. Being innocent, I REALLY thought that Tom was brain damaged and that it was cruel that people laughed at his discomfort.
@wooliz4me515 жыл бұрын
Because of their frankness on TV, they were censored and finally taken off the air
@LostNNYGal4 жыл бұрын
woolspnr51, they would be doing an even better show now!
@R.M.MacFru4 жыл бұрын
@@wooliz4me51 ...Yep. I think they were the first top rated program that was scrapped by a network because of their political commentary.
@71742s10 жыл бұрын
I had forgotten how great the Smothers Brothers harmony was.
@delfin74617 жыл бұрын
it's that genetic harmony thing! Think of the Beach Boys, The Osmonds, The Jackson Five to a certain degree and of course The Roaches :)
@DavidVT237 жыл бұрын
Everly Brothers
@MsCatreona6 жыл бұрын
The Bee Gees
@micsayre5 жыл бұрын
Roches.....
@salvatorematteliano46765 жыл бұрын
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@cheongyei5 жыл бұрын
Tommy's ability to dart his eyes back and forth is so awesome.
@normanacree16353 жыл бұрын
He had more little idiosyncrancies to his schtick it was hard to keep track of all of them. Their timing, especially his, was the best I have ever seen.
@lmalino695 Жыл бұрын
His eyes are reading the cue cards. Comedy is precise; using the incorrect word, or dropping a word, or delivering the words in the incorrect order can undermine the humor.
@susieq9801 Жыл бұрын
@@lmalino695 - I suspect there was a lot of adlibbing going on too judging by Dick's grin. I saw them live and they were hilarious and adlibbed a lot including with the audience. Tommy also made a lot of eye contact with audience members as I suspect he also did here. They prepared their routines well and doubt they needed to rely much on cue cards.
@normanacree1635 Жыл бұрын
@@lmalino695 Reading cards and having the flow they had would be pretty much impossible, I think. With most duos yu can tell when they are reading the cards. They were a well oiled machine.
@lmalino695 Жыл бұрын
@@normanacree1635 That's the magic of television. What the viewers see, may be pieced together from several performances.
@kingspawner248010 жыл бұрын
Whoever you are, you made this old lady very happy
@hughesmoir62605 жыл бұрын
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@harleykingman5 жыл бұрын
I COULD WATCH THESE GUYS ALL DAY AND NIGHT !!!
@catlynnearkin8825Ай бұрын
I was a kid when they were on TV. I loved them.
@therugburnz4 жыл бұрын
Got to see them live once in 1985. The KILLED so hard that even Jim Stafford had to pull out all the stops .
@karenm302810 жыл бұрын
I've always loved their sense of humor. FUNNY!!! Love it!
@habitualmasticator10 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid we would watch this every week. My dad was as far right as it got, and now that I'm older I can't believe he liked them so much, subversive as they were. I wish he was here to ask.
@jiffyjet26 жыл бұрын
Wil Wheaton
@reyh65574 жыл бұрын
@@mgtowpaladin6566 Life was life back then, I remember cause I was there and it was wonderful
@R.M.MacFru4 жыл бұрын
Same here with my very conservative mother. She just loved watching them. 😃
@jimrebr Жыл бұрын
My mom was the conservative Republican and my dad the liberal democrat, but they both adored The Smothers Brothers so much, deep down inside, I knew my mom wasn’t actually the conservative she tried to be, she always loved absurd dark humor, like dad & in 1972 when I desperately campaigned for McGovern, they both voted against Nixon, they thought he was as despicable as me & my friends. Mom told me in 2016, she would never vote for Trump, she saw right through him, but my mom is a very intelligent woman, my dad is smart too, but my mom is genius level, like me.
@miriamjewett54385 жыл бұрын
My mother never missed the show. I was a little girl and watched with her. These guys were just awesome.
@DavidDellman4 жыл бұрын
Love the Smothers Brothers. They are just sooo good
@Glandorray12 жыл бұрын
Dickie just had the look of pure joy on his face...love it.
@annbush18263 жыл бұрын
So brilliant and foussed! We were waiting for that little gleam of mischief, when Tom would begin the pretended side track and Dick would have to be either patient or annoyed!
@SirDcitykity10 жыл бұрын
Just shows their talent. It's not the instrument, it's the player.
@ceejay17944 жыл бұрын
Loved “Satisfaction “ Dickie! 🤓
@impalamama73026 жыл бұрын
They ABSOLUTELY had their fingers on the pulse of the nation.......and THANKS to their humor. they DID keep stuff from exploding later than it eventually did in 1967.........or 1968................
@heatherking87065 жыл бұрын
ImpalaMama only just saw this. They were my favorite. I was so upset when they were cancelled. The next best show was “That Was The Week That Was”
@martimer13 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I miss that show.
@oliemueller39516 ай бұрын
They were my favorite duo. Saw them live at the hungry I many moons ago. Love 5hem
@davidstokes925 Жыл бұрын
I’m old enough. They were awesome, never missed a segment!
@pauljackson976110 ай бұрын
Dick is playing a Hagstrom model H8 8-string bass guitar. Hagstrom made only about 2,200 of them in the mid-60's. Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Noel Redding all played this model. I remember watching this episode the night it first aired. A friend of mine had just bought a similar Hagstrom. I bought several '60s Hagstroms myself and still have one. Tom is playing a Hagstrom Viking electric guitar. In December of '68, Elvis played a red Viking on his comeback TV special on NBC. That guitar was recently appraised at $5,000,000. The "wall of amps" appears to be a dozen Acoustic Control PA cabinets with six bass heads that I can't identify. They are not connected. On the left and right you can see a pair of Marshall 50W heads with Marshall 1960 slant cabs. These are what Tom & Dick are actually playing through.
@DaveDunning-st1hh7 ай бұрын
Those amps look like a Star Trek set, but that was the idea, right ? God love these guys. It won't be heaven without them !
@georgecrutchfield87345 жыл бұрын
My father didn't watch the Smothers Brothers, but my neighbors did!
@dianeallen58032 ай бұрын
This is a song that the family used to sing together in the car when they were boys.
@tolfan44383 жыл бұрын
Wow these guys sound good plugged in. Satisfactionized
@richart583 жыл бұрын
Loved them as a kid , remember when the show went off the air. Knowing that ' the man' was out to get them.
@otravez39169 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Never fail to entertain & bring a smile to my face.
@loridiamond4731 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@Fromard5 жыл бұрын
Better than anything on TV now.
@Rev22-21 Жыл бұрын
Remember when they had the Beatles on two weeks running. The first week they sang Hey Jude, the second Revolution.
@amandalively15 жыл бұрын
They are so talented. Could play and sing asses off.
@ghw71924 жыл бұрын
Such beautiful harmony!
@TracyAllen11 жыл бұрын
I don't know what made me feel like seeing these guys today but, I'm glad I did. Still think they're funny and still think Tommy is cute! :)
@GR-ll5sd2 ай бұрын
Pretty damn nice guitar playing. 😊
@gmoops89865 жыл бұрын
Dickey has that sweet 2'nd tenor that really brings things together. Tom has a nice 1'st tenor and can reach into a nice baritone. That they can blend those voices is beautiful. when they interrupt a song and go into a joke-fest, that has some kind of strange connection to the original theme is a trademark. Then back to finish the song is great. Pat Paulson for president!
@AdrianaK4 жыл бұрын
I don't think Tom was Tenor 1. He was more a baritone, who could sometimes reach somewhat higher notes. Dicky could always sing higher than Tom, so there is no chance Tom was Tenor 1. Unless you mixed up the Tenor 1 and 2?
@jerrykofford26754 жыл бұрын
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@grandmalovesmebest Жыл бұрын
Ha! That just popped into my head while listening to campaign news this morning, wh is how I got here. Whatever became of Pat Paulson? Guilty by association?
@tomadams55827 жыл бұрын
I work at Publix in Sarasota , Today I met the one with the mustache . Awesome guy !!!!
@JeevesReturns7 жыл бұрын
Tom Adams Really?! So cool!
@susanreaves4762 Жыл бұрын
Miss this kind of entertainment.
@moebetta4224 Жыл бұрын
One of the seminal American music/comedy shows.
@salhaddad54 жыл бұрын
They did and it was beautiful.
@Pronzini1 Жыл бұрын
Dickie had a great voice.
@zz449944 Жыл бұрын
I was expecting smoke to come pouring out of all the equipment.
@charlesaguilar17084 жыл бұрын
THAT WAS COOL! GOD BLESS YOU GUYS!
@KeithCooper-Albuquerque5 жыл бұрын
Too funny! They are the best!
@raydonica67237 ай бұрын
Miss them both.
@Epulor16 жыл бұрын
I am a huge fan of these guys, but still say that Dickie Smothers had the perfect poem star name.
@edfulginiti87984 жыл бұрын
This was called entertainment.
@tombloom997 ай бұрын
Great Gag
@zippyustar63503 жыл бұрын
This was a fav back when I was eight over by the time I was 10
@cavramau3 жыл бұрын
How can ther be only 170 comments after 11 years!
@grandmalovesmebest Жыл бұрын
Most of the comments are from Boomers, who are either not addicted to the net, or dying off.
@Zichronot6 жыл бұрын
I was so sad when they were cancelled.
@THEfamouspolka4 жыл бұрын
The blasted network FIRED those boys! They even took the network to court to prove it. Canceled implies that the option to continue was not picked up. I know it's a nit-picky, fine-line distinction, but... there ya know
@grandmalovesmebest Жыл бұрын
I was mad. Old enough to understand why they were cancelled, young enough to know what the were doing was very important.
@boonestead4812 Жыл бұрын
my dad had one of their albums.he used to sing "slithery dee" to us.wed make him sing it over and over lol
@fewerbeansplease4 жыл бұрын
I love this song (I live there) and I love the Smothers Bothers...so what's not to like??
@raymondgerman66714 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the brothers ever played a complete song seriously. They were so talented..
@mozehey4 жыл бұрын
They actually had an album, "Almost," where they did ALL the songs seriously... almost.
@Stafford-d8u3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@Alexandria8153 жыл бұрын
On their album Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers, they did all songs on one side of the album completely serious and in their entirety!
@raymondgerman66713 жыл бұрын
@@Alexandria815 Thanks. I will have to listen if I can find it on KZbin.👍🏻
@kenwittlief2553 жыл бұрын
Yes, I had the record from their TV show when I was a kid in the 60s. I think there was one sung all the way thru " Mary was pretty..."
@captbad93135 жыл бұрын
I had forgotten this about the Smother's brothers. Thanks
@davegentry23803 жыл бұрын
I live in Kansas city!!
@debraen10 жыл бұрын
I still have a crush on Tommy...!
@delfin74617 жыл бұрын
me too!!! they were so talented and really went out on a limb to push through some cutting edge comedy
@MsCatreona6 жыл бұрын
Tommy's adorable, but I always liked Dickie best.
@davidmccluskey69085 жыл бұрын
@@MsCatreona Are you their Mother?
@michaelhardin470 Жыл бұрын
Gutbustingly funny. Talent!
@winonamassingill78953 ай бұрын
Reminds me of the man who bought an album that he thought was only one peace of equipment and the man asked him if he didn’t need the batteries to go with it and that had been a huge box of batteries 🔋. 🔋🔋😂🔋😅😱😱😱😳😳😳
@markschafer18285 жыл бұрын
i'm LMAO...I was only 8 or so then. But Funny is what Funny does🤣
@deanagarnes26767 ай бұрын
I always remember. They are the ones who showed folk music is better than rock!
@DaveDunning-st1hh7 ай бұрын
Folk music, being a much older genre, was at this time being quickly replaced by Rock & Roll. And so it goes. I personally love the satirically pointed Mitchell Trio folk music, most of which was banned from radio for being too effective at exposing political rationalizations. Much like Billie Holiday's ' Strange Fruit ' , the most sharply pointed example of such music .
@buitlbybear1580 Жыл бұрын
GOAT's !!!!
@loriemccaughey466710 жыл бұрын
Tom and Dick really kicked ass on that electric jam, would have been cool if they played more electric than acoustic
@EtzEchad Жыл бұрын
It was a dark day when the Smothers went electric...
@MrsRosencranz13 ай бұрын
I see what you did there.
@crlguitar16 жыл бұрын
Tommy, always the 'comic' one...and Dickey....the perfect 'straight' man....Ya need 'em both to make it work!
@alanberent44285 жыл бұрын
I have to wonder how they came up with this shtick. "Hey, Dick! We've been playing and singing together since we were kids. How do we get noticed? Well Tom, we need a gimmick. What if one of us pretends he's smart, and the other dumb? Sounds good, Dick. But who gets to play the smart one? I dunno, Tom. Lets ask Mom."😂
@JoeGalanteTribute5 жыл бұрын
My brother was the piano player for a singer who was an opening act for The Smothers Brothers back in the 70's. In real life, they were the opposite of their onstage persona. Tommy was the business man and Dick was the funnier one. I believe they own a winery these days.
@grandmalovesmebest Жыл бұрын
@@JoeGalanteTributeyou mean luckily "the man" didn't put them on the street.
@JoeGalanteTribute Жыл бұрын
@@grandmalovesmebest - ??? What the hell does that comment have to do with anything I said?
@rodneyrawlings7100 Жыл бұрын
@@alanberent4428 Brilliant!
@educatethemax97144 жыл бұрын
The humor back in those "old days" was way really funnier than now!!
@retrogaming5743 Жыл бұрын
These guys were ahead of there time, They would never been canceled in the 90s to 2000s
@normanacree1635 Жыл бұрын
They wouldn't even get on the air. Wrong material, sorry to say.
@DaveDunning-st1hh7 ай бұрын
They would have made Trump thier target, instead of Nixon. I think fascist 'conservates' weild even more cloat today than in the 60s.
@Juliemorgana5 жыл бұрын
Classic!
@SplittTwig11 ай бұрын
Ooh that 8 string… hagstrom? Rickenbacker? Whatever that bass is is real nice. Real crazy seeing that in the hands of a smothers brother.
@DRShissler19 жыл бұрын
Someone else commented on this but I can't reply 3:40 is really funny. Dick then says "your gonna get it" under his breath lol.
@CriswellKOL3 жыл бұрын
I always wondered if Tommy's answer was scripted or ad-libbed. "You're gonna get it" Absolutely unscripted ad-lib by Tommy.
@normanacree16353 жыл бұрын
You must be able to read lips from behind a person.
@bensdadfrank5 жыл бұрын
Who else remembers their sitcom, where Tommy was an angel?
@ssppeellll5 жыл бұрын
I do. "My Brother, the Angel" may have been the title. I'm too lazy to look it up right now. There was also a British show, of which I don't remember the name at all, along similar lines. It was about two detectives, one of whom died, but came back to continue working with his partner. I also don't remember which of those two shows came first--and am feeling just as lazy as I was three sentences ago--but it seems likely that one show got its premise from the other.
@tomasduka5 жыл бұрын
@@ssppeellll The British show was probably Randall and Hopkirk(Deceased) (1969)
@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen5 жыл бұрын
@@tomasduka Tomasduka, right you are. In the U.S. it was was re-named "My Partner the Ghost." I only remember one specific scene from that show. There was a nun involved in one case, and the deceased partner, Marty, felt that the living partner, Jeff, was too trusting of her. In fact Jeff was being influenced by the fact that, despite being a nun, the woman was quite attractive. And in fact Marty pointed out that he didn't think she was a nun. Jeff asked why he was so suspicious of her, and Marty remarked something like, "Nuns don't wear makeup"--which this woman did.
@chuckcap68785 жыл бұрын
agent 008...my bro, the angel
@donaldzahnke21235 жыл бұрын
I do
@davegentry23803 жыл бұрын
Sunday night
@mikegburnside2 жыл бұрын
They shook the culture looser. Much needed at that time and even more so these days,. IMO. Amazing, us old farts can refer to this era with some passion, still.
@JamieSmith-fz2mz Жыл бұрын
Ooh, I think I just saw Dick feed Tommy his line when Tommy stumbled on it. @3:06 I’ve never seen that before. Love this pair.
@Powers38489 ай бұрын
They were in Cannonball Run - Speed Zone. If anyone remembers.
@thedevilinthecircuit14149 ай бұрын
Not many people know this, but Bob Dylan saw this episode and decided to go electric for the Central Park concert. And unlike The Smothers Brothers, Dylan got booed.
@stantaylor33503 жыл бұрын
I remember the episode where dicky put a camera behind the seat in the center of his 442 & you got to watch him go through the trap. Ausome!!! I was 12 then.