double trouble -Smothers Brothers

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cover story WRITTEN BY Kelly L. Watson

double trouble

LONG BEFORE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and The Simpsons, families gathered around the television to watch The Smothers Brothers Comedy

Hour. The stars of the show, Tom and Dick Smothers, made sibling rivalry an art form. Dick was the straight man whose seriousness heightened the humor of Tom’s smart-aleck antics. Tom was the comedian, whose bumbling non sequiturs sparked caustic arguments and countless laughs.

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