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Professor irwin corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. he talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. it was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. pat paulsen was a master of comedy too. the smothers brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. we had a couple of our albums, including the purple onion album, translated in script form. it didn't work at all. it is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the smothers brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.
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Tommy Smothers
Professor irwin corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. he talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. it was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. pat paulsen was a master of comedy too. the smothers brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. we had a couple of our albums, including the purple onion album, translated in script form. it didn't work at all. it is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the smothers brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.
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