Hee Haw started on CBS-TV as a summer 1969 replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

Jokes of this genre formed the base of a monologue by comedian Pat Paulsen on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late 1960s.

During The Who's 1967 appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour US television show, Moon hid explosives into one of his bass drums.

CBS cancelled the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition, " Classical Gas ", on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer.

She also made appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Man from U. N. C. L. E., and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Virginian and starred in television specials.

Narrated by The Smothers Brothers, the show highlighted some of the unique American musical styles such as Gospel, Big Band, Classical, Country and Rock.

Some programming such as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour became controversial by challenging the very foundations of America's corporate and governmental controls ; making fun of world leaders, and questioning U. S. involvement in and escalation of The Vietnam War.

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The Airplane's famous appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour performing " White Rabbit " and " Somebody to Love " was videotaped in color and augmented by developments in video techniques.

The Airplane's appearance on The Smothers Brothers in the fall of that year caused a minor stir when Grace Slick appeared in blackface ( she claimed she simply wanted to wear all the makeup she saw in her dressing room ) and raised her fist in the Black Panther Party's salute after singing " Crown of Creation.

The TV show typically included a segment in which Gobel appeared with a guitar, started to sing, then got sidetracked into a story, with the song always left unfinished after fitful starts and stops, a comedy approach that prefigured the Smothers Brothers.

In 1969 Norman auditioned for a role in the Los Angeles production of the rock musical Hair, which was playing at the Aquarius Theatre at 6230 Sunset Boulevard, and which was directed by Tom O ' Horgan and produced by Michael Butler and the Smothers Brothers.

That year, she joined the cast of the television show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

Novello performed on The Smothers Brothers Show in 1975, appearing as Sarducci.

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The character was featured in 1970s cartoons by underground cartoonists Dave Sheridan and Fred Schrier, appearing in person in the early 1970s on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and later in the 1975 Smothers Brothers TV show.

* The lyrics were not sung during the famous Colonel Bogey March sequence in the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai because they were considered to be too vulgar. In an early Smothers Brothers album Tommy declares " the words were dirty!

The Smothers Brothers are Thomas (" Tom "-born February 2, 1937 ) and Richard (" Dick "-born November 20, 1939 ), American singers, musicians, comedians and folk heroes.

Their own television variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, became one of the most controversial American TV programs of the Vietnam War era.

They were a popular act in clubs and released several successful record albums, the most successful being The Smothers Brothers at the Purple Onion in 1961.

Their first television series was a situation comedy, The Smothers Brothers Show ( 1965 – 1966 ).

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour started out as only a slightly " hip " version of the typical comedy-variety show of its era, but rapidly evolved into a show that extended the boundaries of what was considered permissible in television satire.

Before a rowdy crowd at the Los Angeles Forum, Jimi Hendrix dedicated I Don't Live Today to the Smothers Brothers, as heard on The Jimi Hendrix Box Set.

On the Smothers Brothers show that night, a small amount of explosive was put into the small cannon that Keith Moon kept in his bass drum.

Townshend, who had been in front of Moon's drums at the time, had his hair singed by the blast ; he is seen putting out sparks in his hair before finishing the sketch with a visibly shocked Tommy Smothers.

In 1968, Tommy Smothers had refused to let his name be on the list of writers nominated for the Emmy because he felt his name was too controversial, and thus when the writing staff won he was the only member not to receive the award.

Tom has since stated, " When the Smothers Brothers came on the air we had no political point of view or social consciousness, it just evolved as the show was on the air.

Smothers had refused to let his name be on the list of writers nominated for the Emmy, because he felt his name was too volatile.

Townshend, who had been in front of Moon's drums at the time, had his hair singed by the blast ; he is seen putting out sparks in his hair before finishing the sketch with a visibly shocked Tommy Smothers.

It had an ensemble cast including Eileen Brennan, Phil Hartman, Tab Hunter, Carol Kane, David Lander, Eve Arden, Paul Reubens, and Tom Smothers.

In March 1974, Lennon began producing Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats album, thus named to counter the " bad boy " image the pair had earned in the media with two drinking incidents at The Troubadour: the first when Lennon placed a Kotex on his forehead and scuffled with a waitress and, two weeks later, when Lennon and Nilsson were ejected from the same club after heckling the Smothers Brothers.

Patrick Layton " Pat " Paulsen ( July 6, 1927 – April 24, 1997 ) was an American comedian and satirist notable for his roles on several of the Smothers Brothers TV shows, and for his campaigns for President of the United States in 1968, 1972, 1980, 1988, 1992, and 1996, which had primarily comedic rather than political objectives, although his campaigns generated some protest votes for him.

On November 19, 1994, Candido won a 10-man tournament, defeating Al Snow, Dirty White Boy, and Tracy Smothers to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, which had been won and immediately vacated by Shane Douglas and ECW that August.

Smothers and Armstrong had a long feud with The Fabulous Freebirds ( Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin ).

Smothers had notable feuds during this time against " Prime Time " Brian Lee, Chris Candido, Tony Anthony, The Heavenly Bodies, and The Gangstas.

This series may have indirectly inspired the Brothers ' more successful later series, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, in that Tom Smothers had been critical of the series as not being compatible with the brothers ' strengths ( in fact, he fought with Four Star executives over more creative control of the series, earning an ulcer and irritating his marital relationship to the point of divorce at the end of the season ).

During this same time from 2002 till its closing, Shark Boy joined and toured with XPW where he had memorable bouts with Kaos, Tracy Smothers, Juventud Guerrera, and Jerry Lynn.

The groups ' long time arranger Larry Cansler had a successful career in the studios in LA scoring many movies ( including The Gambler series ), variety shows, ( the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour ) and many national commercials.

On May 6, 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union's Sonoma County chapter honored Smothers with its Jack Green Civil Liberties Award for his work against television censorship and for speaking out for peace and civil liberties.

The Smothers Brothers have appeared on numerous television shows over the past three decades, including two shows of their own: The Smothers Brothers Show, a sit-com from 1965 to 1966 ; and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a variety show in 1967.

* February 4-The Bee Gees make their American television debut on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

With a turn of the television dial, viewers around the globe could variously have seen shows and occasional specials featuring Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Julie Andrews, The Carpenters, Olivia Newton-John, John Denver, John Davidson, Mac Davis, Bobby Goldsboro, Lynda Carter, Johnny Cash, Sonny and Cher, Bob Monkhouse, Carol Burnett, Rod Hull and Emu, Flip Wilson, Lawrence Welk, Glen Campbell, Donny & Marie Osmond, Barbara Mandrell, Judy Garland, The Captain & Tennille, The Jacksons, The Keane Brothers, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mary Tyler Moore, Dean Martin, Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Smothers Brothers, Danny Kaye, Des O ' Connor, Buck and Roy, Roy Hudd, Billy Dainty, Max Wall or The Muppet Show.

One of the studio's television specials was 1973's The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas, with Tommy Smothers voicing the little bruin who goes out to find Christmas ( in the human world ), while his fellow bears head for hibernation.

Yet the media industry of the time was so timid and conventional that it wasn't until the height of the revolutionary ' 60s that Seeger was able to end his blacklisting by appearing on a nationally distributed US television show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, in 1968.

For the villain Jody Joad, a rather odd first choice was the television comedian Tommy Smothers.

The genre has continued to exist in cinema while also making a successful transition to radio and later television via The Smothers Brothers and Rowan and Martin's Laugh In.

Other shows over the years taped or filmed at Television City included All in the Family, The Twilight Zone ( with Rod Serling ), The Smothers Brothers, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The Carol Burnett Show, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, Tony Orlando & Dawn and The Jacksons, House Party, The Dinah Shore Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show and many television specials.

The third television version, which aired on December 18, 2005 on ABC in the US as part of The Wonderful World of Disney and was released on DVD two days later, starred Carol Burnett as Queen Aggravain, Denis O ' Hare as Prince Dauntless, Tom Smothers as King Sextimus, Tracey Ullman as Princess Winnifred, Zooey Deschanel as Lady Larken, and Matthew Morrison as Sir Harry.

In the 1960s, she become known to a wider white audience, playing Carnegie Hall in 1962, and making a number of mainstream TV appearances, particularly her multiple appearances on the The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour when that CBS show was the number one show on television in the late 1960s, which introduced her to a whole new Boomer audience.

During an appearance on the Smothers Brothers television show in 1967, Keith Moon over-loaded his Premier bass drum with explosive charges, which were detonated during the finale of " My Generation ", which according to legend resulted in permanent hearing damage for bandmate Pete Townshend and caused Bette Davis to faint.

Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour ( the first release of this album lists it as " Smothers Comedy Brothers Hour " on the label, similar to the show's logo on the front cover ) is a 1968 comedy album released on Mercury Records by the Smothers Brothers consisting of bits from their CBS television series, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.