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Topic: Smothers Brothers

"The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (left) and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" (right) (Photo illustration by Salon / Bettmann / Getty Images / Scott Kowalchyk / CBS )

Colbert wasn’t CBS’s first sacrifice

Sophia A. McClennen
American sibling Folk musicians and comedians Tom (left) and Dick Smothers perform together, as the Smothers Brothers, onstage at the Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Illinois, February 5, 1983. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

Tom of Smothers Brothers fame dies at 86

Nardos Haile