Latest / TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
How The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Changed Television
TVC 633.5: David Bianculli talks to Ed about how the battles between CBS network executives and Tom Smothers over censorship of behind The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS, 1967-1969) "were like parents who were too strict trying to discipline children who were too rebellious"; the return of The Smothers Brothers to CBS television in 1988, and the emergence of Tom's "Yo-Yo man" character; and the final public appearance of the Smothers Brothers during the launch of a Smothers Brothers exhibit at the National Comedy Center. David's books on television include Dangerously Funny: The…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.