Dangerously Funny Wednesday, December 2, 2009
You kids with your YouTube and your Hulu may not be able to get your head around this, but way back in the retro-tastic 1960s, there were only three nationwide TV channels: ABC, NBC and CBS. (PBS was there too, but on an entirely different dial, I assure you.) So when Dick and Tommy Smothers started mucking around with the muckety-mucks on their popular comedy-variety TV program — lefty satire of racism, Vietnam, the Nixon administration — the show suffered a quick demise (thanks, network censors!). Author David Bianculli explains it all when he presents and signs his behind-the-scenes book Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour." Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., L.A.; Thurs., Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m.; free, book is $24.99. (877) SCC-4TIX (722-4849), www.skirball.org. (Originally published in L.A. Weekly, November 27, 2009.)
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