Search results
Hace 3 días · Their own television variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, became one of the most controversial American TV programs of the Vietnam War era. Despite popular success, the brothers' penchant for material that was critical of the political mainstream and sympathetic to the emerging counterculture led to their firing by the ...
Hace 5 días · Steve Martin’s illustrious career began while he was still a student when he accepted a contract to write for the hit television show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967. His exceptional writing skills earned him an Emmy Award in 1969.
Hace 1 día · Steve Martin was a popular standup in the '70s, but did you know that he actually was a writer first, for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (he won an Emmy in his 20s for the work!)?
Hace 2 días · Watch TODAY excerpt: From 1988: The Smothers Brothers on their controversial firing from CBS - NBC.com.
Hace 5 días · Although the performance was cut from the September 1967 show, after wide publicity, it was broadcast when Seeger appeared again on the Smothers' Brothers show on February 25, 1968.
Hace 5 días · After he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for television's The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour variety show, Campbell was given his own weekly variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, which ran from January 1969 through June 1972. The show's comedy writers included Steve Martin and Rob Reiner.
Hace 1 día · • Apr 4 CBS-TV abruptly cancels "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" three weeks after renewing it, citing the program's failure to provide advance screening for review before airing. • Apr 4 Haskell Karp receives the 1st temporary artificial heart, implanted by surgeon Denton Cooley at Texas Heart Institute in Houston.
