The Smothers Brothers was an American music-and-comedy team formed by real-life brothers Tom (or Tommy) Smothers (born 2 February 1937; died 26 December 2023) and
Dick Smothers (born 20 November 1939). They were both born on Governor's Island in New York Harbor, where their father, a West Point graduate and U.S. Army officer, was stationed. Their father died during the Second World War in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, and they were raised by their mother in the Los Angeles area. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the brothers frequently appeared on television variety shows …
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