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Taking a Personal Holiday: It's Smothers Day

Hi, folks. Between now and the end of November, when my book on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is due, I have decided to, on occasion, take a day off from writing my daily blog. I'll still provide daily BEST BETS no matter what, and Diane Werts is providing new stuff in her front-page spot as often as she can.

So on days when I have a particularly heavy workload, it's a personal blog holiday: Smothers Day! Today, when I'm interviewing both Dick and Tom, writing a Broadcasting & Cable column and teaching college, DEFINITELY is one of those days.

Please return tomorrow. I will.

Behind David in the picture is the first TV owned by his father, Virgil Bianculli, a 1946 Raytheon. (The TV, not his father. His father was a 1923 Italian.)

David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air, occasional substitute host for that show's Terry Gross, and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His most recent book is 2009's Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,' and he's at work on another.

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