How Smothers Brothers Battled CBS Censors and Set the Stage for SNL
In 2017, The Hollywood Reporter gave me the opportunity to write an oral historyabout a passion of mine,The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the groundbreaking variety program anchored by Tommy Smothers, who died Tuesday at age 86, and his brother, Dick.Airing on CBS from 1967-70, the controversial show offered an alternate television universe for a young