Dangerously Funny (2009) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Tom Smothers: Add a description of this character.
• Dick Smothers
• Mason Williams
• William Tankersley
• Pete Seeger
• Pat Paulsen
• David Steinberg
• Tommy
• Harry Belafonte
• Glen Campbell
• Wood
• Perry Lafferty
• Mike Dann
• Paar
• Ken Fritz
• Bob Einstein
• Bobby
• Sam Taylor
• Paley
• Steve Martin
• Leigh
• Allan Blye
• Joan Baez
• Johnson
• Tom Downer
• Jackie Mason
• Dawson
• Nixon
• Dylan
• Garfunkel
• Ruth
• Harris
• Stanton
• Simon
• Pastore

Quotes edit see section history

• “CBS wanted established stars from its own network to appear, while Tom was more interested in showcasing and nurturing new talent. CBS wanted performers to sing their hit songs, while Tom wanted them to sing new songs before they were hits. For CBS, almost every mention of religion, sex, drugs, politics and war was anathema; for Comedy Hour addressing such topics made the show unique.”

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• “You can’t have your heart in one place and your head in another. Jesus Christ was not a businessman.”

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• “I don’t know what you guys have,” he told Tom and Dick at the end of their debut Tonight show appearance on January 28, 1961, “but no one’s gonna steal it.”

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• Maureen Muldaur’s excellent 2002 documentary, Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,

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• “The policeman isn’t there to create disorder,” Daley said afterward in a famous slip of the tongue. “The policeman is there to preserve disorder.”

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• The Songs and Comedy of the Smothers Brothers! at the Purple Onion—only

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• “They looked like just nice, next-door guys—and they weren’t. They were really tilted.”

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• Steve Martin, Bob Einstein, John Hartford, Rob Reiner, McLean Stevenson—all of them, and others, got their start in the Summer Brothers writing room.

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• Burns used a metaphor I especially like, about how time can change value—how a grain of sand, which begins in the oyster as an irritant, eventually transforms, layer by layer, into something “extraordinarily valuable”: a treasured pearl.

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• People still talk about it as censorship. Of course, it isn’t censorship, unless the government gets involved. It’s just [the network] trying to decide whether it’s worth it.

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• Maureen Muldaur’s 2002 Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• New York
• West Coast
• Northern California
• San Francisco
• America
• Los Angeles
• Bonanza
• Comedy Hour
• Washington
• Vietnam
• United States
• White House
• John Hartford
• Aspen
• Television City
• Chicago
• Canada
• Monterey
• Denver
• Colorado
• Altadena
• Berkeley
• Buffalo Springfield
• Beatles

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. David Bianculli (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 791.4572

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Entertainment › Humor › Comedy
• Books › Entertainment › Television › History & Criticism
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Entertainers

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