The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour - clips and commercials 10/6/68

[fromthesidelines]

...and Mort Marshall is the man pitching Volkswagen at the end. A veteran Broadway, film and TV actor, he also provided the voice of the "Trix rabbit" in General Mills commercials, as well as the voice of "Stanley Livingston" on "TENNESSEE TUXEDO AND HIS TALES", and "Klondike Kat" on "THE UNDERDOG SHOW".

[fromthesidelines]

Oh, yes, Joe Sirola is the voice behind the Whirlpool ad. He's still "the voice of Boar's Head" deli meats in their commercials to this day...

[Aspergian]

Would you have any clips of Lorenzo Music from this series? I've read next to his being a writer for this series, he occasionally would sneak onto camera strumming his banjo or ukelele.

[mikethekhotmailcom]

the Beatles appearance was a videotape from the David frost show(UK). Available on YouTube.

[mikethekhotmailcom]

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[jaytoor]

WOW look at those cars!

[ModGirl1967]

Thanks for the post!

[sith4923]

this video is interesting as hell

[fromthesidelines]

Mike appeared in dozens of commercials during this period, while trying to make his mark as a "working actor". He was particularly appealing to cigarette advertisers, as the Kool ad demonstrates.

"Participating sponsorship" were the keywords here; several advertisers bought individual minutes on the Brothers' show every week {those most often, at the time, were Brown & Williamson [Kool], American Tobacco [Tareyton, Silva Thins]- they also co-sponsored their 1965-'66 sitcom- and Volkswagen}.

[iceaxe56]

he actually ran--for vice prez.--under the name of thomas eagleton

[findapartmentnow]

OMG that LTD is gorgeous!

[022603]

Commercials from the 60's where included but not the BEATLES?????!!!!!!!!????

Rather have seen the Beatles!

[daybyday007]

This is great with all of the commercials but could you please put the parts up with Nancy Sinatra? I'd really appreciate it!

[lcmoorejr]

Thanks for posting. Used to watch this show as a kid, and even had the album Tommy was promoting. Love the old cigarette ads. There's a classic cig ad by the Flintstones you can find on YouTube, that's amazing.......

[Anglynn74]

Oh gee look, cigarette ads when people knew they were bad for you but weren't uptight about it, back when we could advertise it & not have others go ape shit about it.

[sexymama1966]

love that ford commercial:)

[sexymama1966]

that mike farrell was a hottie in his time:)

[PeerlessPaavo]

That's Mike Farrell of M*A*S*H* (2:26). Cigarette ads weren't much longer for this world. Sadly, neither were some smokers.

The swinging pop combo in the Ford ad (3:29) was an advertising staple then. About as swinging as they could get for that demo -- my grandparents bought an LTD. Also, Jimi wasn't available.

I love the man asking Paulsen about "birth control" at 5:53. With it enough to be at this show, but coping with the Generation Gap at home.

Great stuff, Toon. Thanks.

[FaganRoberts]

Non-smokers aren't long for this world either. My grandmother never smoked and she's as dead as disco.

[PeerlessPaavo]

DaVinci was a vegetarian and is deader than the proverbial doornail.