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What the public is watching is gags lifted from tales as old as the Arkansas Traveller (ca. 1860) but spliced together with production as new as Laugh-In. On Hee Haw, the graffiti adorn not bikini-clad boogaloo dancers but Burma-Shave signs, and the routines occur not at cocktail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Corn Is Still Green | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, recently dropped by CBS, won for Outstanding Comedy Writing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awards: Emmys of Irony | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Sir: Alas, another slightly tarnished, slightly tattered liberal bites the dust. Abe Fortas, like the Smothers brothers, was a victim of the Establishment. Free and constructive speech, once valued as a privileged medium of criticism, is fast becoming a farcical political device of the haves. With the possibility of four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 30, 1969 | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

With that kind of touch, the Chronicle's Hoppe (pronounced Hoppy) has needled his way into the top ranks of U.S. newspaper humorists. Although a shade less consistent than the Washington Post's Art Buchwald, Hoppe at his best is unbeatable. His special talent is to hold a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnist: Reverse Images | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Sir: Congratulations to CBS-TV in canceling the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. In addition to being offensive to many Americans, this program abounds in tasteless remarks and is definitely not funny. It is refreshing to know that at least one network has the courage to say "No, no," enough is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1969 | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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