and take the consequence. >> cbs announced today that the "smothers brothers comedy hour" will not returne evident that brothers, quote, were unwilling to accept the criteria of taste established by cbs. cbs news efforts to reach the brothers for comment have been unsuccessful. >> i was angry. but we never regretted it. we never did regret it. >> what do you think of television, honestly? do you think it's good? >> yes, i do. i think particularly for what it is. for the amount of hours that it gives you for enjoyment. either in education or for pure entertainment, it's remarkably good. >> what television did in '60s was to show the american people to the american people. until then, we did not truly know much about each other. we knew only what we had seen, which was very little, and what we had read, which was even less. >> a few years ago i thought it was the end of the world. >> no, it's just the beginning. >> i think people looked at television for answers, maybe. that the world's just confusing, it's going to hell all over the place. maybe something on here will help. >> there was no

- [voiceover] from hollywood, the jack benny program with his special guests, the smothers brothers. ? (lyrics) can it be the trees that fill ? the breeze with rare and magic perfume ? (off-key) oh no, it isn't the breeze... ? (audience laughs) - oh no, no, no, that's not right. - i said it wasn't the trees... - i know you said it wasn't the trees, but then you said, "oh no, it isn't the breeze"... - you said it wasn't the breeze. - well, in the first, it wasn't the breeze, it was the trees. - (loudly) oh yeah, well... (audience laughs) if, if it, if it's the trees, it can't, sn't the breeze", so that, so how, i'm awful right... (audience laughs) - you, uh, you are right, but just forget, just forget everything i've told you. just say, "can it be the trees that fill the breeze"... - (singing) ? can it be the... ? - trees. - (singing) ? can it be the trees that fill ? the breeze... please... ? - no, i never... (audience laughs) how can it be the trees that fill the breeze with-- - okay, fellas, okay, okay. (laughter and applause) (audience laughs) - i thought i had a good idea and it

>> jimmy: i had smothers brothers were big. rodney dangerfield, "no respect." >> you had no -- see, "no respect", and the flip side was "son of no respect." remember t >> that's right. you would listen to those. >> jimmy: i would memorize rodney dangerfield. i use to have a record player in my room. but my parents, as i was saying earlier, they were very overprotective. my dad would actually take a a key and he would scratch out the curse words. >> hang on -- >> jimmy: so -- >> that meant he had to sit and listen to the album and figure out where the curse words came -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> and stop and then back it up scratch out. >> jimmy: yeah. >> that's horrible, yet >> jimmy: also it kind of screwed up all the jokes. >> oh, really? >> my doctor and all of a a sudden it goes -- and a pause. and you go doctor? that's not a joke. you're thinking, comedy is a a cinch. >> jimmy: it's so easy to do. >> but folks, my shoes -- [ laughter and applause ] ?? >> jimmy: it works. it still works. it still works. >> jimmy: i'm happy that y

an internment camp, i'm muslim and i'm going still going to do the jokes. 1968 and 1969 the smother brothersxon so much, and anybody nixonian it's donald trump, and what he did was use his power with the cbs executives to get him thrown off the air so i can see him and more his supporters going online and trying to attack us. i keep saying they lost the popular vote and they are freak out. >> let me play stephen colbert. when he did his former incarnation on comedy central. >> i worked there. >> it was brilliant. >> and now you have him being himself and this is the stephen colbert show on thursday. take a listen. >> already put up a new transition website with the name greatagain.gov. he's got a dot govs. one of the most disturbing things i've seen on the internet, and i've been on the internet. and greatagain.gov shows how seriously trump is taking the new gig starting with a page that says help wanted which is how a lot of people feel right now. >> i mean, that is great, but, pete, my next question is when do they end up having trump on because this is where a lot of voters who find norma