23. Beeping Censors Lurking in the Wings

259 "You could do something off-color": Ernie Chambers. Interview with author, February 18, 2009.

259 Tom enthused about him: George Gent. "Smothers Brothers Winning a Long Battle with Censors," New York Times, January 25, 1968,

259 "a real Joe College": Ken Fritz. Interview with author, June 5, 2009.

260 "So they were running around": Mason Williams. Interview transcript for E!, November 4, 1992, pp. 5-6.

260 "Some of them were really absurd": Saul Ilson. Interview with author, February 20, 2009.

261 "they weren't bad guys": Ernie Chambers. Interview with author, February 18, 2009.

263 "I thought it was pretty funny": Tom Smothers. Interview with author, October 24, 2008.

265 "I was there when they laid the first stone": William Tankersley. Interview with author, September 13, 2009.