3. Tom and Dick Shoot for Paar
24 “I take great pleasure”: Jack Paar. P.S. Jack Paar. NY: Doubleday, 1983.
26 “Once we got onstage”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, October 21, 2008.
26 “We didn’t think we could do it”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, October 5, 2008.
27 “Tom and Dick walked up there”: Ken Kragen. Interview with author, December 11, 2003.
27 “I just slowly edged my way in”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.
28 “We’d learn a song”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, June 5, 2001.
28 “That’s where the definitive part”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.
28 “The comedy just took over”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, Fresh Air, August 11, 1997.
28 “My wife and I scrubbed the apartment”: Dick Smothers. October 21, 2008.
28 “Folk music back then”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.
29 Walt Conley was the opening act: Bob Spitz. Dylan: A Biography. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989, pp. 102–104.
29 Other accounts have Dylan: Clinton Heylin. Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades. NY: Summit Books, 1991, pp. 40–45.
29 “We only ran into him once or twice”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, October 5, 2008.
30 “We were all just struggling stand-up guys”: Bob Newhart. Interview transcript for E!, December 11, 1992, p. 2.
31 “David Carroll was really the father figure”: Interview with author, October 3, 2008.
31 “The shows were good”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, May 21, 2001.
32 “New York is pretty damned big”: Sherry Smothers. Interview with author, December 6, 2008.
33 “The show starts”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.
34 “At that time, if you succeeded on that”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, July 10, 1999.