ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE

Who's Who in American Comedy

The Smothers Brothers

Comedy team who starred in a succesful and controversial T.V. show in the sixties (Bob Eisenstein and Steve Martin were writers for the show); Tom Smothers plays simpleton to brother Dick's very "straight" role. This clip is from one of their early pieces: "Boil That Cabbage Down."


[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]