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Both brothers were also inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2010.
Tom Smothers, Half of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Duo, Dead at 86
Tom Smothers, one half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, has died at the age of 86. The pair’s boundary-pushing variety show was known for sharply targeting racism and the Vietnam War, resulting in its abrupt cancellation in 1969.
