Valerie asked: > 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. > Valerie, I think you are remembering Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in. It was considerably freer than the Smothers Brothers, and *did* have a lot of left-wing political commentary--maybe at your tender age it just didn't register. Mia