#Netflix' #StillLaughIn is a #VeryInteresting insight into a prior time when a #LookAtTheNews had intelligent criticism and comedic skits with #WorkingClass prototypes but, more importantly, presented a narrative at odds with contemporary "#NewsMedia."

#FoxNews is the #LaughIn #NewsOfTheWorld absent any self awareness or sense of #Irony.

Here's hoping the #SmothersBrothers gets an equally entertaining documentary.

Because no one should have to eat "Cream of (s)Parakeet" soup.

Haven't done #MorningMusic in awhile, so let's try our luck with #Donovan on the #SmothersBrothers show from Nov 17, 1968. That was the season where CBS found an excuse to cancel the show after years of constant censorship clashes.

Tom and Dick were replaced that summer with the debut of Hee Haw, which should tell you a lot about America in 1968. Hee Haw then ran for three decades, which says a lot about the US at literally any other time since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJAgWmMVCgg

I was surprised the Rolling Stone article did not mention the precedent of the #SmothersBrothers and #censorship. Next to that, Trump’s tantrum and his toadying staff calling some Disney flak looks petty and impotent compared to how #LBJ went after the Smothers Bros.

It also reminds us how daring they were in their time, and how the power structure noticed and felt threatened. What contemporary entertainers are this threatening to the status quo?

Oh, tiptoe from the garden ♪
By the garden of the willow tree
And tiptoe through the tulips with me... ♪

𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐦?

#Music #OneTrickPony #Ukelele #SmothersBrothers #EdSullivan #Boomer

“I became a poster boy for freedom of speech.”
— #TommySmothers

The actor, comedian and co-host of #TheSmotherBrothers Comedy Hour is 86 today.

#BornOnThisDay #SmothersBrothers #1960s #1960sTV #Nostalgia

More birds #Judycollins #IanTyson #bird #1960s #SmothersBrothers #music #Friday #culture #USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70-1b9SCj0

#Morning #Vinyl #SmothersBrothers
#thriftstorefinds #FolkMusic #Satire

"Catching up with the Smothers Brothers" 💚
#SmothersBrothers #TomSmothers #DickSmothers
https://youtu.be/8r_cFJUQXd0

If you're of a certain age this might interest you. I absolutely loved these guys as a kid, and still do.
https://youtu.be/8r_cFJUQXd0
#SmothersBrothers

My Wednesday #music: Thinking about Tom and Dick Smothers today. As an Xer, they were a part of the Johnny Carson talk show ecosystem when I was growing up, and it's interesting to see that they're still touring into their 80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LEfWjHCPVY

#SmothersBrothers #FolkMusic #Comedy #1960s

RT @wknr@twitter.com

An all time Keener instrumental fave was released today in 1968 when #SmothersBrothers head writer #MasonWilliams, producer Mike Post & #TheWreckingCrew collaborated on “Classical Gas”. It peaked at # 1 on Keener the week of July 18. https://youtu.be/EEzyrpfrPEI

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/wknr/status/1142500842836246534