Book
Dangerously funny : the uncensored story of The Smothers Brothers comedy hour
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Publication Information
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Physical Description
xvi, 382 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Dangerously Funny" presents a history of the rise and fall of the wildly influential '60s TV show, and it's lasting influence on the cultural landscape.
Notes
"A Touchstone book."
Contents
- The birth of the Smothers brothers (and the Smothers sister)
- The Smothers Brothers, all three of them, take the stage
- Tom and Dick shoot for Paar
- The Smothers brothers, on the record
- "High noon on the Ponderosa"
- Revolution in a shoe box
- And so it begins : The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
- Testing the CBS censors, the first encounters
- From hit status to Elaine May not
- Becoming more creative, and more substantive
- Homegrown talent : Pat Paulsen, Leigh French, Mason Williams
- Season two : breaking the blacklist of Pete Seeger
- The Who explodes
- The generation gap widens, even on TV
- Wading back into "The Big Muddy"
- "Classical gas"
- The Smothers Brothers Smothers Show
- Season three : "We're still here"
- Meet the Beatles, this time on Comedy Hour
- Pat Paulsen for president
- David Steinberg finds religion
- Hair today, gone tomorrow
- Beeping censors lurking in the wings
- Classics and controversies
- Fired, not canceled
- The aftermath, the bed-in, and the trial
- After the fall, and couples therapy
- The Smothers brothers legacy.