hey mia, this bit of info was indeed very helpful. i'm 33 so i have some vague memories of them on tv....mostly from other comedy shows making refernce to them. i had no idea about their troubles with the censors. i think the shows i have seen must have been the heavily censored ones cuz i don't recall much satire.....only half naked women dancing around.....and wasn't ruth buzzy (sp?) on there? loved her. thanks for the history lesson... -valerie > OK, let's take pity on this poor guy . . . > > It was the 60's. CBS hired these nice, clean-cut musical guys to host > a comedy/variety hour. Before this, they'd released a couple of folk > albums, probably toured . . . > > Well, the nice, clean-cut guys got on the air at the critical point > when a lot of the youth of the country was getting upset about > Vietnam. They found that they were getting upset, too . . . their > comedy took on a political edge. They had guests on that the censors > (oh, yeah, you won't know from censors either. CBS had censors that > were supposed to make sure all the shows were nicey-nice. The > Smothers Brothers had a *lot* of trouble with the censors) didn't like > and they wrote skits that the censors cut up or just cancelled . . . > then the brothers would get up there and show the camera the *script* > of the skits and talk about how they couldn't *do* the skit . . . > there was an excellent special about them on one of the cable networks > just this winter. > > I don't know if this helps or not. The world was very different back > then. > > Mia