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LEADER: 02528cam a2200313 a 4500
001 2009036843
003 DLC
005 20100409084400.0
008 090903s2009 nyuaf b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009036843
020 $a9781439101162
020 $a1439101167
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn310397911
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050 00 $aPN1992.77.S63$bB33 2009
082 00 $a791.45/72$222
100 1 $aBianculli, David.
245 10 $aDangerously funny :$bthe uncensored story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour /$cDavid Bianculli.
250 $a1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c2009.
300 $axvi, 382 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [365]-372) and index.
520 $a"Dangerously Funny" presents a rollicking history of the rise and fall of the wildly influential '60s TV show, its perennial problems with the network censors, and its lasting influence on the cultural landscape.
505 0 $aThe birth of the Smothers brothers (and the Smothers sister) -- The Smothers Brothers, all three of them, take the stage -- Tom and Dick shoot for Paar -- The Smothers Brothers, on the record -- "High noon on the Ponderosa" -- Revolution in a shoe box -- And so it begins : The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour -- Testing the CBS censors, the first encounters -- From hit status to Elaine May not -- Becoming more creative, and more substantive -- Homegrown talent : Pat Paulsen, Leigh French, Mason Williams -- Season two : breaking the blacklist of Pete Seeger -- The Who explodes -- The generation gap widens, even on TV -- Wading back into "The Big Muddy" -- "Classical gas" -- The Smothers Brothers Smothers Show -- Season three : "We're still here" -- Meet the Beatles, this time on Comedy Hour -- Pat Paulsen for president -- David Steinberg finds religion -- Hair today, gone tomorrow -- Beeping censors lurking in the wings -- Classics and controversies -- Fired, not canceled -- The aftermath, the bed-in, and the trial -- After the fall, and couples therapy -- The Smothers Brothers legacy.
630 00 $aSmothers Brothers comedy hour.
610 20 $aSmothers Brothers.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0917/2009036843-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0917/2009036843-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1001/2009036843-s.html