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    Re: RIP Tommy Smothers

    Sad day, legend.

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    Re: RIP Tommy Smothers

    Quote Originally Posted by Dom Heffner View Post
    Sad day, legend.
    Pure legend.... I'm telling mom

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    Re: RIP Tommy Smothers

    I believe the Smothers Brothers were the first TV stars to be “cancelled.” They refused to let the CBS censors take out criticism of the Vietnam war, and were canceled for it.
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    Re: RIP Tommy Smothers

    Quote Originally Posted by 757690 View Post
    I believe the Smothers Brothers were the first TV stars to be “cancelled.” They refused to let the CBS censors take out criticism of the Vietnam war, and were canceled for it.
    In 1960 Jack Paar walked off the Tonight Show (live) in 1960 to protest being censored for a joke he told the previous night-a "WC" aka toilet joke. He stayed off for 5 weeks.

    Was surprised to read, their father was an Army officer:
    "'Thomas Bolyn Smothers III was born Feb. 2, 1937, on Governors Island, New York, where his father, an Army major, was stationed. His brother was born two years later. In 1940 their father was transferred to the Philippines, and his wife, two sons and their sister, Sherry, accompanied him.
    When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the family was sent home and Maj. Smothers remained. He was captured by the Japanese during the war and died in captivity. The family eventually moved to the Los Angeles suburb of Redondo Beach, where Smothers helped his mother take care of his brother and sister while she worked."
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