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  • Humans have been doing drugs long before your childhood, or anyone elses. Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it wasn't there... The romans were ALL about poppies.

  • Ha, I just watched this on the Jack Benny Program. I always laugh hard while watching Jack Benny but this is one of the funniest episodes ever.

  • Funny I would love to find the old albums.

  • Exactly. You know who was sitting in John & Yoko's room during their bed-in in Montreal? Yeah. Tommy Smothers. He was hangin with the cool kids. Not the innocent naive ones.

  • @jojo2664488 Idiots, all of you. You have no sense of time or history. When this clip was first aired, there was no wide-spread drug culture. This was long before the Beatles hit the scene, before Hippies, etc. Dick Smothers did not get into the drug scene, although Tommy did. After 1967, Marijuana was a prominent fixture in the writers office at CBS. You talk like you know, yet I doubt you were even alive when they were popular, and certainly not in the folk era. Now, shut up.

  • I thought there was a version where they said the cabbage was boiled to cook hotcakes in. May have tasted good to the pioneers, but-like Tommy said-it wouldn't work very well today.

  • I can't help it... after 45 years, these guys STILL crack me up!

  • Goldie Hawn was a female version of Tommy. loved 'em both

  • Never knew about these guys until the Simpsons.

    Great stuff.

  • The best of the best!

  • Dickie is really hott!!!

  • I have always loved these guy's for years.................love them love them no doubt about it.....

  • This never ever gets old and people who ignore it cos it's black and white are fools.

  • This was when we were naive and innocent, and the drug culture had yet to sicken society. Humor was funny, life was good.

    Simpson, eh?

  • @PRR5406 ha! you so funny. i know someone who did coke with these guys.

  • @PRR5406 ROFLMAO do you know ANYTHING about the Smothers Brothers? They got kicked off network TV for being too progressive and liberal. Which should make them eligible for a Nobel Prize, imo...

  • @djn1066 Idiots, all of you. You have no sense of time or history. When this clip was first aired, there was no wide-spread drug culture. This was long before the Beatles hit the scene, before Hippies, etc. Dick Smothers did not get into the drug scene, although Tommy did. After 1967, Marijuana was a prominent fixture in the writers office at CBS. You talk like you know, yet I doubt you were even alive when they were popular, and certainly not in the folk era. Now, shut up.

  • @PRR5406 Ha ha. They were considered very progressive and they introduced us to George Carlin.

  • @PRR5406 Whoa whoa whoa, "sicken society"? Exactly how has drugs like marijuana, ecstasy, LSD and DMT "sickened" our society?

  • There are no pumas anywhere BUT North America.

  • Bill Cosby brought me here.

  • @readchomsky Tommy BEWARE!

  • Nice catholic boys.

  • Simpsons brought me here.

  • 25 year old here. Holy shit these guys were ahead of their time!

  • I remember watching a Jack Benny show with the Smothers Brothers, and they Jack laughing so hard. It was great.

  • I remember watching a Jack Benny show with the Smothers Brothers, and they Jack laughing so hard. It was great.

  • the Smothers Brothers are the best comidian in the world.........

  • The vast bosom of America, I thought I would throw a little sex in the show. There are 10 they are afraid of the Pumas.

  • i bought one of their vinyl records today at a thrift store.

  • Bart need's a brother.

  • OMG, thats still funny. No matter how many times I see it.

  • I just saw that same episode last night-- are the reruns on schedule that perfectly?

  • love it....would love to see Hermit was a Lobster and Sally was a Crab

  • So refreshing. Clean, genius humor. On long trips, my parents would play this bit but I was so young I didn't understand why it was so funny. I recently youtubed this about a month ago after watching a documentary about these guy who fell in a crevice and it reminded me of this. the whole time i was saying "he's stuck in deep cravass! hope there are no pumas." first time actually seeing the guys. its a lot funnier seeing them do the bit.

  • Saw them in vegas about 6 years ago.  They are still hilarious. Genius will always come through.

  • I actually remember watching this live on TV when I was a kid. The Puma thing broke me up then and still does.

  • roffle.. there's pumas all over america..

  • Wow! I am 53 and I can only faintly remember a time when network censors wemt thumbs down on uttering the word "hell". Times certainly have changed... 

  • These guys are true American Heroes and I still feel that way. God Bless these brothers! My dad had all of their albums & I still love that Puma's were 'Frothing in their mouths in deep Cravices!!' Fantastic stuff!

  • yee i'm related to these guysss

    ya jealous suckaaassss

  • "look at those vicious beasts in that crevice! they look like pumas!...but they werent." hahahaha these guys never get old!

  • timeless......... u need a smile, a good laugh, these guys deliver,,

  • NAKED BACON

  • @Ididnthaveaname no, i said "take it tom" not "naked bacon"

  • This is still funny even after having heard it a hundred times. If you've never heard it before, I envy your first time.

  • "there's no pumas in those cravesses!" xD

  • @StarWarsObsession42 Im not going down that cravesse

  • @DragonGamer9 THERE'S A DANGER LURK!!!

  • Love it! I've been saying "pumas in the crevasses" for years. Now my kids get to see where I got that! Thanks for posting!

  • Looking for the video where they talk about pumas and gnus.....any have it???

  • @wheeliemom3 I have it on a record!!

  • @showersinger547 Right! Even just on record they are great!

  • EXCELLENT.

  • Umm. There is no info. What year? What show? Thanks for posting. Where did you get this?

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  • "the folksingers' guidebook...."

    That one just never gets old.

  • Why can't people sych the sound to the video?

  • @SyvetheShairks Are you familiar with video editing?

  • thts nice ♥

  • these guys for over 5 decades have been the funniest true comedy team out there, no stupid crap, no vulgarity, and their singing folk is awesome also

  • "take it tom!"  "no" xD

  • sure look like puma's!

  • @airnbobo he was someything else

  • ahahahaa

  • Thanks to the simpsons for making me discover these guys, love 'em already!

  • @lethe56 That's how I looked for them a couple months ago,lol.

  • I saw this on the Jack Benny Show, that is where this exact clip comes from. These guys were awesome.

  • I used to see Dickie at least 3 nights a week in El Porto , Manhattan Beach at Orville & Wilbur's ...Dickie came in and enjoyed the hospitality circa 1972

  • Oh my god that was hilarious!

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  • Where oh where have the great comediens gone. The Smothers Brothers were among the best. Great entertainment of the first order. flufrules

  • Bwahaha It's been ages since I watched a B&W TV set with horizontal hold issues! The Smothers Brothers were revolutionary for their time. I know they inspired programs like "Laugh In" and "The Flip Wilson Show."

  • (cont'd) Their schtick is formulaic: they start singing, Tommy disrupts humorously/controversially), Dick chastises him, they resume and repeat this several times, often not finishing the song. Over time, their patter became increasingly political and anti-Nixon. That's why their show and "Laugh In" were canceled. I'm glad they're still performing. They are American icons.

  • It's so odd to see all the comments about how squeaky clean these guys were, and maybe they were, at first. But they evolved and changed for the better. Tommy got away with a lot of double entendre comments because he looked so middle America. They were both smart, witty and so good at what they did. They were also very brave, Tom especially, with the way they jousted with the censors at the time of their series. Bravo to the Smothers Brothers!

  • I love them! They are hilarious!! I grew up listening to stuff like this and I still love them....

  • Those truly WERE the days, lol!! The Folks Singers Guide Book indeed. I grew up to the sounds of these two comedic geniuses, and loved every minute of it.

  • Tom: I said to take it and you didn't take it!

    Dick: I'm sorry. Very sorry. Really, I'm sorry.

    Tom: Well don't get belligerent!

  • There are to Pumas in America! I have a pair in my closet...

  • Demi Moore starring as the Pumas in the Cravice.

  • Take it, Tom!

    No.

    -grin- Love it. Possibly my favorite Smothers Brothers routine. Thanks for posting this!

  • They were a great act.

  • I saw them in Spokane, Washington, in January 2010. And they still ARE. (!)

  • I saw them in Peekskill last year. And I could not agree more.

  • Take it Tom lol! Love these guys

  • Thanks for putting this up!

  • my favorite part is at 2:23 lol it's hilarious!!!

  • Liner notes from the "Mom Always Liked You Best" LP:

    "Last February I was lucky enough to have on my television show two of the zaniest and most refreshingly funny guys I've ever known.

    When the first bounced onstage that night in their bright red blazers--shoebutton eyes shining and faces freshly scrubbed--I was sure they had mistaken the studio for an eighth grade dancing class."

    ---Jack Benny

  • Great comedy - thanks a million...

  • I used to have this one on one of their albums. I love the Smothers Brothers - they're so goofy and their music is excellent. I love their comedy but I love their music more.

  • They appeared at The Simpsons on last night's episode.

  • that end credit audio was classic. naked bacon

  • @hazbutler no..."Take it Tom" :)

  • I saw that, too. Did some old, but good material, too.

  • Yeah, he definately said naked bacon

  • @pinkstate was about time !

  • @pinkstate Yeah, I just watched it :) That's why I came here. :P

  • I think this is from the Jack Benny show.... great fun...good clean fun....Thanks for sharing it!

  • When Carson first saw them he is to have said to them. I don't know what you got, but no one is going to be able to copy it. So Far Carson is right.

  • actually, Jack Paar said that.

  • The Best Brothers Smothers bit ever!  I've remembered every word of this version for (blush!) almost 40 years.

    But let me be the next to point out: There are LOTS oi pumas in America. Pumas (a/k/a mountain lions or cougars) are FROM America. Whether they live in cravasses, is another matter.

  • Comedy Geniuses!!! Great Post!!!  Very entertaining!!

  • i love these guys. been listening for years!

  • brilliant and hilarious

  • Met them in Laughlan last year-- they are still having fun

  • they are AWSOME!

  • I remember this,tomok97, Thank you !

  • These guys are always a blast. Love the joke about the bicycle.

  • im 18 and my grand ma has one of there records and i wore that record out.

    because there so funny.

  • LOL

  • these guys were awesome, after a long day, i like to watch them, their comedy awesome, their singing even more so, thnx for the post

  • true comedy, funny without the bad language,,i never liked standup comedy, these guys were the first, the best..... awesome voices also

  • This clip was taken from a Jack Benny program.  He had them on his program just as they were getting started in their career, just likke so many other talented comedians and musicians. Jack Benny was a class act too,

  • never gets old!!

  • "WELL DON'T GET BELLIGERENT YOU DIDN'T TAKE IT!"

    wow the smothers brothers were a class act truly hilarious

  • This was Tommy at his funniest

  • Tommy & his pumas!! lol. I remember that ",,vicious beasts who look like pumas" thing way back when. Also-FDI-America's the only 2 continents that DO have pumas.

  • "Tommy. Get rid of the pumas." "I'm not going down in those crevases!" lol

  • Catch Tommy and Dick at the Elkader Opera House in Elkader, Iowa in November. Should be an intimate performance. Can't wait. I'm bringing my yo-yo.

  • "Gonna throw some sex in this show"

    they were so risky in their time. Great stuff.

  • Man oh man. I surely enjoyed this happy little break listening to these guys. If they don't make you nostalgic for a bygone era, I don't know what will.

  • That's Entertainment!The harmony and artistry are the top class.Arrgh

  • Pumids

  • lol that was super funny man!

  • Man, this is hilarious!

  • just got to love tommy.

  • omg alwayss good for a laugh,, timeless

  • im 14

  • tommy is so cute...

  • LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The big secret was that Tom and Dick were actually very good musicians. Their show was extremely funny and they did everything possible to get past the censors.

    Mom always liked you best!

  • lol my AWSUM band teacher showed us this in class! they r HILARIOUS

  • this is hilarious. i saw a clip of them in american history. because we are learning about the hippy movement and things that included all the veitnam war

    this is really good, :D and im only 17

  • Laughing my butt off i remember them when i was a kid

  • Tom and Dick Smothers are so classic! I've loved them ever since I was a child and I'm only 32! The Smothers Brothers, a true American staple!

  • this is hysterical.

  • ....vicious pumas in them crevasses......

  • LOL

    I LOVE THIS<3

  • "...but they weren't." lol

    I love this old stuff!

  • the late 60s early 70s , man the time for music , variety shows, like this , these guys no matter what your mood, makes u smile, bob dylan once said , "the times they are a changing" they may be, but its so awesome to go back and relive the times of our lives, ty

  • they make it look so natural and unrehearsed..

  • but to be honest. when was the last time you have seen this kind of classy humor?

  • As I pointed out at another post, Mason Williams wrote much of their comedy. But I suspect that they came up with the vicious puma bit all by themselves.

    Btw, there ARE pumas in America, Dick!

  • yeah and Addiddas and Nicke, way to go, way to go

  • EmmaBugg007, the time has come for you to choose. Either "It's never been released on DVD" or "It's available on DVD" but not both.

  • This is from Jack Benny's last filmed episode (and the last of his weekly series), originally telecast on April 16, 1965.

  • I never thought comedy from that era would translate so well to this day and age.

  • these guys are awesome!

  • oh my lord, love this taped from tv.........i miss the static and snow etc lmao.....ty

  • Great clip.... Going to be 56 in 2 days and I remember them like yesterday.....Dang shows what a life I have lived.....LOL....great.

  • happy belated b/d and yes the shows from the early to mid 60s were the best. these guys certianly bring back memories

  • the smothers brothers and simon and garfunkle are def. the best of the past , the brothers for laughs and great songs and s and g for the most moving songs of the times.

  • Nice video. BTW hi gamefaqs and Silent Hill board.

  • This could be a silly question, but what was the point of your comment?

  • Whats this mystery cheese in my fridge and on youtube?

  • they are timelesss, always njoy watching them

  • And here all this time I thought this was from Ed Sullivan! Jack Benny?  Whoa! Doubting that.

  • Yep, it's from the final episode of Jack Benny's regular show. I've got it on DVD.

  • Was that Smothers Brothers episode ever released commercially on DVD, or did you convert it to DVD from the VHS release?

  • It's never been released on DVD. It's available on DVD from the official Jack Benny Fan Club.

  • "We accept everybody in America, Dickie."

  • Simple...yet really pretty funny...early 60's Folk was popular and the Bro's kinda tweaked it...

  • God bless the Smother's brothers, I'm going to see them in August at Niagara Fall's casino, can't wait. Tommy rules, not many comedians like this that are funny and don't swear!

  • tommy will always be funny.

  • Tommy Smothers is the funniest human being I have ever seen in my life...I'm pretty sure he's a genius, too...

  • Take it!!!

  • great posting, great commedy

  • i was told about this but i never expected it to be this rib-busting funny!!!!

  • Oh my gosh! That was so funny!

  • Man, Dick looked so different back then.

  • TAKE IT! one of my favorites!!

  • Their mouths don't match with speech..somebody messed up. They were funny though. And they WERE considered controversial in their day! The first hippies!

  • Not the first hippies, just the first ones with their own prime time TV show.

  • Their mouths didn't match because the syncronization is off after so many years of this video surviving. I'm really amazed there is as much of it viewable as there is. Old video tape decomposes (note all the "scrambles" during the playing). Someone must have had this in proper storage for a long time. Lucky for us!