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There's no political satire on primetime television anymore.

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I lost perspective, my sense of humour. I became a poster boy for the First Amendment, freedom of speech, and I started buying into it. It was about three years when I was deadly serious about everything....I'm still politically active, I'm still angry, but I've got it in the right position now.

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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.

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When we did our show in the '60s, during the Vietnam War, you were either a hawk or a dove; a right winger or a left winger. It was pretty decisive, but not nearly as decisive as it is now.

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My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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Tom Smothers
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Born: February 2, 1937
Died: December 26, 2023 (aged 86)
Bio: Thomas Bolyn Smothers III was an American comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick.
Known for:
  1. Mom Always Liked You Best! (1965)
  2. The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers (1962)
  3. The Smothers Brothers at the Purple Onion (1961)
  4. The Smothers Brothers Play It Straight (1966)

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