Dangerously funny
Subtitle: the uncensored story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
By: David Bianculli
Edition: 1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781439101162
Description: "Dangerously Funny" presents a rollicking history of the rise and fall of the wildly influential '60s TV show, its perennial problems with the network censors, and its lasting influence on the cultural landscape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of the Smothers brothers (and the Smothers sister); title: The Smothers Brothers, all three of them, take the stage; title: Tom and Dick shoot for Paar; title: The Smothers Brothers, on the record; title: "High noon on the Ponderosa"; title: Revolution in a shoe box; title: And so it begins : The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour; title: Testing the CBS censors, the first encounters; title: From hit status to Elaine May not; title: Becoming more creative, and more substantive; title: Homegrown talent : Pat Paulsen, Leigh French, Mason Williams; title: Season two : breaking the blacklist of Pete Seeger; title: The Who explodes; title: The generation gap widens, even on TV; title: Wading back into "The Big Muddy"; title: "Classical gas"; title: The Smothers Brothers Smothers Show; title: Season three : "We're still here"; title: Meet the Beatles, this time on Comedy Hour; title: Pat Paulsen for president; title: David Steinberg finds religion; title: Hair today, gone tomorrow; title: Beeping censors lurking in the wings; title: Classics and controversies; title: Fired, not canceled; title: The aftermath, the bed-in, and the trial; title: After the fall, and couples therapy; title: The Smothers Brothers legacy.