Dick Smothers' brother was a precursor to 'cancel culture'
Tom Smothers, the guitar-playing, yo-yo-slinging ditz of the famed Smothers Brothers, has died at the age of 86. Beloved by baby boomers of the left-leaning variety, the act featuring Tom and his sibling, Dick, is almost completely unknown to millennials and today’s Gen Zers.
To contemporary comedic sensibilities, the whole Smothers Brothers “concept” may seem anomalous. When I’ve mentioned the group to my comedy classes, I’ve often been met only with blank stares and furtive attempts to Google them.
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