Tom Smothers, Comic Half of the Smothers Brothers, Dies at 86
He lost the first round of his campaign to have Pete Seeger, absent from television after being blacklisted in the 1950s, perform his antiwar ballad “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.” The segment was pulled in 1967 but broadcast a year later. “Television is old and tired,” Mr. Smothers told McCall’s magazine in 1968. “Television […]