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Tom and Dick Smothers pioneered political satire on TV---becoming a voice for the counterculture and drawing the wrath of network censors. Their groundbreaking '60s show was a hit with young viewers, but amid escalating controversy over their topical, sometimes irreverent humor (much of it antiwar, or at least antiestablishment), the series was abruptly canceled (and replaced by 'Hee Haw'). The brothers came back with new versions of the program, but none matched the hipness of the original.