If you are too young to remember the Smothers Brothers, you may not know the significance of one of them passing. They were a genuinely clean and funny pair of comedians and actors who we loved in the 20th century.
Tommy Smothers who, along with his brother Dick, formed a groundbreaking comedy duo that made people laugh for six decades, died Tuesday at age 86.
His family released a statement, which was shared by the National Comedy Center, about his death at home following cancer treatment.
His brother Dick Smothers said, “Tom was not only the loving older brother that everyone would want in their life, he was a one-of-a-kind creative partner. I am forever grateful to have spent a lifetime together with him, on and off stage, for over 60 years. Our relationship was like a good marriage – the longer we were together, the more we loved and respected one another. We were truly blessed.”