Although it didn't win its time slot against Bonanza, NBC's most popular program, crucially to the advertisers who bought commercial time on CBS, the show's hip hosts were drawing a younger audience than almost any other top-rated show on TV. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour aired 9:00 PM Sundays, right after The Ed Sullivan Show. The four-minute clip is still hilarious - but there's much more to it than that. His name was Steve Martin of Garden Grove, California, and on Februhe gave the Smothers Brothers' huge national viewership a magic routine and its first taste of his Dada-esque comedy stylings. It was there, during the show’s third season, that a brown-haired comic from the Smothers Brothers writers’ room made his on-camera debut before an audience of 20 million people. It comes from that same network - top-rated CBS - and a show called The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. And a year earlier, CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite - fresh off a fact-finding tour of Vietnam - delivered a grim on-air commentary that would prove decisive in convincing Lyndon Johnson not to run for a second term as president.īear that in mind when you play the clip below. King’s killing sparking off widespread and destructive rioting in cities across America. MLK and RFK had both been assassinated, with Dr. You think times are bad now? Roll back 53 years with me to 1969.
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