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“Variety shows are complicated,” Tom Smothers toldRolling Stonein 2015. The occasion was the launch ofBest Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, the ultimately short-lived attempt to revive the long-standing song-dance-and-skits format for TV. Few knew how thorny such undertakings could be than Smothers, who died this week at age 88. …

Tom Smothers, one-half of the famed Smothers Brothers comedy duo, who brought a revolutionary hit of music and political satire to late Sixties television, has died, The New York Times reports. He was 86. Smothers died at his home in Santa Rosa, California, following a “recent battle with cancer,” according …