but the smothers brothers took to the print media and said, "hey, cbs is censoring our best jokes.kay, okay, he can sing the song." ♪ all at once, the moon clouded over. ♪ ♪ we heard a gurgling cry. ♪ a few seconds later, ♪ the captain's helmet was all that floated by. ♪ a friend of mine was working in the distribution office for columbia records in denver, colorado. he says, "pete, you know, my boss took one listen to this record and exploded." he says, "those people in new york must be nuts to think i could promote a record like this." he said, "pete, your record did not leave the shelf." so as i say, i can't prove that songs do anything, but people in control of the country think they do. ♪ another stream had joined the big muddy ♪ ♪ about a half mile from where he'd gone. ♪ ♪ we were lucky to escape from the big muddy ♪ ♪ when the big fool said to push on. ♪ ♪ i know i've been saved. ♪ i know i've been saved. [clarinet plays] [chanting] [rock music] ♪ waist deep in the big muddy. ♪ the big fool said to push on. ♪ funding for this program was provided by the annenberg/cpb projec

. >> -- the smothers brothers program. >> that's right. >> which was also political satire.ember watching it at my father's knee and did he really get that killed? can presidents get a tv show killed? >> -- it was very highly rated at the time. and it was the "saturday night live" of its day. very counterculture. had all these hot new comedians on. very against the war. so it -- they did -- but that was not "saturday night live." it was not an institution. >> but he really did get it killed because he didn't like it? >> well he put pressure on cbs for sure. and certainly the smothest brothers believe that's why they were forced off the air. certainly wasn't the ratings. the ratings were very good. >> another skit that they did was a play on the movie "love,actually." this time you had hillary clinton going door-to-door talking to electors. here it is. ♪ ♪ ♪ christ the savior is born the christ the savior is born ♪ >> it was -- >> satire because it played off a very familiar scene. people know that scene. and the idea of them sort of using hillary again is very popular. >> tr