I’m a patient in hospice and watching this brings back fond memories. I’m now a firm believer in seeing my life’s memories all return at the end. Very cool.
I've been waking up from dreams lately ... of memories back in the 60's and 70's, makes me wonder if my time here is short ... which is cool. Jesus stepped into my life around my 40th BDay, and I look forward to heaven. I'll pray for you Scott, if you'd like? Hope you are not in much pain.
Thoughts are with you Scott. There's a paradise in the earth's future that's even better than that brief effort of peace and love. It includes the possibility of earthly resurrection too. Hope you can be there.
The hippie chick is not a random audience member but actually actress Leigh French in case anyone was wondering. She was also a meteorologist in another Smothers Brothers clip.
I thought so, her dialog with Tommy was too funny and her timing was really good. When she got to the turning down the volume and flipping the vertical on the T.V. I got suspicious.
I have memories of laying in the floor watching this show while my parents sat in their chairs behind me. They are both long gone, but as I write this I'm sitting in the same room. My wife and I bought their place after they passed and fixed it up. I miss them.
@@mrsmartypants_1 well, it is the best prayer you can give someone. lol. believe in god or not, the dude gave his best wish in his own belief to someone else. I think it is good, no?
The writing on that show was excellent. I will be 52 in March. I only have watched them in syndication. But I remember. They were great. There is comedy gold all the way back to vaudeville if people take the time to research. Comedians are very helpful.
@@johntitor2120 the war was the reason people tried to spread PEACE ☮️ AND LOVE ❤️ in the 60’s and early 70’s . Just some looked at it different than others
@@ebonyrenna well , living the “ Hippie Culture” I had long hair and smoked pot and was just laid back . Didn’t let shit bother me . I Wasn’t into fighting or starting shit , just getting ready high and making love to my chick . Used to wear clothes with patches sewed on them . Mostly my Levi jeans and jacket . Road a 500cc triumph chopper , with a 4ft front forks . We used to PROTEST the VIET NAM WAR . Just living the “ HIPPIE “ Life . I still have long hair and patches on my jeans . Except I can’t wear the Levi jeans 😁
While hippies were getting some bad press back then, this routine did a great job of both laughing at the culture but also getting the essence of hippy culture across to the audience without denigrating it.
@@williambattermann5008 really? its pretty obvious she is not just an audience member. I don't think they even intended for anybody to believe it was just an audience member
This must have been the introduction of the character Goldie to the Smothers Brothers show. She later had a regular segment called 'A Little Tea with Goldie.' And those of you around in the 60's remember just what kind of 'TEA' she was offering. 🙂 So much fun in those days!
I was an Air Force pilot way back in '72. A young lady practicing ballet, quietly by her self, caught my attention I thought what grace. I fell in love with her quiet inner beauty and intelligence. She didn't care about my car my job,she was just a nice kind person Wore simple cottin dresses or levis , sandles rode a ten speed. She had flowers in her, so I would always use Cheets&Chong's line."Hey hippie want to buy a watch? We are now 74 and my "hippie chick" is upstairs sleeping. Her first name is Dawn. She is a real life Mary Anne........When I tell that story she would note that she wasn't so much a hippie as broke. (rescue animals, help support her mother loan money to relatives) She still wears "flowers in her" Some guys have all the luck. P.S. I use her internet.
I am married to a hippy chick too (I know those days are long gone but there are still that kind of people even if they are few.) We are 42 now with 2 beautiful kids. I have to say the best people we can marry is probably hippies.
this woman deserves a lot more credit than she got for what she did with this comedic personna. It's a self-satire spoof of hippies, but still slips some of what gave the spirit worth into the goofball satire
There was no shortage of character actors from this era who did bad hippie impressions on television-it wasn't just that they were spiteful and unkind beyond the requirements of satire and in the service of a reactionary viewership, but also clueless, as if they had never actually met anybody who belonged to the counterculture and were not at all curious. What a marked contrast this woman's performance makes: Not only is she easy on the eyes and very likeable, she also seems very well to embody that oblique ebullience characteristic of the type-I mean, she seems authentic enough to me.
Well I am 75 years old and I can never forget the way we were treated as soldiers coming home. So I really have no use for a hippie because it was against everything that I was taught and I believed in. As far as her playing a part? She wasn't playing she was really that stupid and there was no acting in it. These time were when this country started to fall apart. Character actress? She would never hold a flame to people like Foster Brooks, Jim Nabors, Ruth Buzzi, Lilly Tomlin and not even close to Don Knotts.
I'm 69 yo and I watched the Smothers Brothers years ago. Goldie was really funny as the Hippie Chick with her gentle satire. Far out, groovy, and a Natural High through laughter. Jenny
@@GetajobNofreakingway No, this was actress Leigh French, who portrayed a hippie named Goldie O'Keefe, or Goldie Kief. Both "Goldie" and Kief" were slang terms for marijuana at the time, according to Wikipedia.
“WHERE EVER YOUR AT IS REALLY WHERE ITS AT” What a beautiful era of realization and understanding.. I see this time in USA history as a breakthrough of enlightenment.. That generation was finally exposed to the teachings of eastern mysticism, Hinduism/Buddhism, & true Christianity, where you become truly conscious of ones self.. becoming aware that we all are connected to one another.. To understanding that what really matters is right now. This present moment in time is so precious since It is momentary & will disappear in a flash. ***So let’s enjoy life! And let us continue the pursuit of self realization and to see the beauty in the now. 🌎🧘🏻⏳⚖️❤️🔥🧠🫀🫂🪢🪬🙏✝️☮️🔯🕉☯️✌️🪷🥰
THIS is one of the finest pieces of comedy you have ever seen? Not incredible legendary directors who put thought into their comedic films? uncultured swine
What a great time to be alive back then. I LOVED the hippies when I was a little kid. Aside from the abundance amount of drugs, their philosophy about loving all people and getting people to chill out was one that resonated with me, deeply. As a young black child, i always felt like I fitted in with them regardless of my race. Being around hippies, i never felt as though my color and race was even considered, about anything going on around them. They were cool as hell and very "Free" thinkers. I loved that time of my life. My how times have changed. I wish we could live those days again. She played a hippie to the tee. It was the beginning of that movement, to be honest, and she was probably one, in her private life. It was exactly how they thought, sounded and dressed. I remember all the dyed tee-shirts with peace signs and "flower power", written on them. Yes we had our so called "Jesus Freaks" and "Flower Childs". It was all about "LOVE", though, and loving each other no matter who you were. We could use more of that philosophy today. Bring back the 60's and 70's.
Well I care for the wild children that we're left by the free living drug living flower child . The kids had no ideal of not jumping into garbage cans and peoples personal space and the boundaries of sexual touching. And when I was younger in a children home there were too many there from parents leaving them for weeks, sending them to school with little to slips as clothing. Drugs are so wonderful. Why was I there my gran passed away and my younge mother was I'll. I felt bad for the children.
@@journeybrook9357 These days everybody does everything right and stays safe and is never uncomfortable and triggered and they are also miserable. Never have surveys found so many with so few friends and so much depression.
Yes we could definitely use more of that spirit of universal love that was abundant in the 1960s! I'm a childlike senior citizen now! During this holiday season I just want to wish everyone peace on Earth and good will to ALL!
This was one of the funniest shows because the guys were so honest and so truthful. I remember this skit and it was hilarious! If you were not around in the 60's you missed a lot.
@@th3unmaker Yes it was a “skit”… Now they call it Social Engineering. watch it and see how many new concepts, words and phrases she introduces and implants to the audience and society. Hitchhiking, flower child, air headedness, naïveté, groovy, far out, tuning in, dress, hairstyle and the whole 60’s Flower Power AGENDA!!!
You might get the impression that the Smothers were satirizing hippiedom...but as the sketch ends, you realize that they were on board with a lot of their ideas. I was 17 at the time. and if you are too young to remember, this was a magical, hugely creative time to be alive (Vietnam notwithstanding!)
I'm 47, and I somewhat envy you all. To be young in those days really seems like something special. I think Gen X-ers will have some figures to tribute to as well. Most of us learned from you. Loved this whole conversation with her. I'm gonna have to try and revive some of this dialect. Had to lay a comment and reply. The "flip the vertical hold" so she could watched his Head go up into the TV....😂
I feel So fortunate to have grown up during that time. I can’t imagine being a child today. Looking back my childhood was a gift and a beautiful one at that.
@@kickstar1 Just compare this sketch to what passes as comedy on TV today. In my experience, life in general has a harder edge to it than when I was growing up (50s and 60s).
@@plane_guy6051 I'm not sure I would use the baboon analogy, but in general yes, I think those are among the things that give life a harder edge. It seems to me a large proportion all of the various "tribes" we now see in the U.S. are misbehaving (as compared to my reference era): republican, democrat, conservative, liberal, black, white, etc. The question is: Why? Why are parents giving their kids too much leeway? Why have music, TV, and the movies become so seedy? And so on. I agree that individuals bear a large part of the responsibility for this change. They have allowed themselves to value instant gratification over the hard work of living a quality life. To value spectacle over thoughtful introspection. To value fantasy escape over meaningful discussion and decision making. I see many of the destructive things that people do as being reactions to the stress of living in an economy that will not or cannot provide a living wage for all honest workers. An economy that requires huge levels of debt to buy a house or get a college education. An economy that is becoming more and more difficult to navigate year by year. In other words, I think we are living in a system that does not encourage rational behavior. We're living in a system that fosters destructive behavior. And to top it off, our elected leaders at the national level do not seem to be doing anything useful. The "American Dream" has died for many people. Nobody is even acknowledging that fact much less doing anything about it.
I grew up in very Midwestern feeling Pittsburgh PA in the 60s and early 70s. This show was frowned upon by 'squares' and uptighties, for sure, but it and Laugh-In were great! Always with the counterculture innuendo. My Sister was a hippie, and they let our high school out every Friday to protest the war. Other than the war--whose images are seared into my mind permanently--it was a fantastic time to grow up. I wouldn't have traded it for anything. All the music, art, culture and social awakening, it was a magic time, as a kid, you could feel it.
I was in SF in the 70s, this girl reminds me of some of the girls around there. Man, there was some serious positive energy flowing back then. I got lost in the 80s, but I've found my way back. I'm still all about peace, love, and light. Still wanting to save our mother earth. I think its high time for a return to the flower power movement!
You are welcome to start the flower child movement again. The rest of us will continue to work for a living to grow our families while you sit back and enjoy your comfort drugs and live off the hard work of grounded Americans.
@@jmadratz There's a thing called "group outsider homogenization" where people outside their group tend to see those different as all the same. People who want to properly care for our environment or want to engineer a more peaceful, verdant and socially just society do indeed have families, work for a living and are not into drugs so much, maybe don't drink at all , very likely don't smoke cigarettes and enjoy a healthy diet and exercise. Same goes both ways. To your health, right livelihood and compassion towards others!
@@jmadratz In this highly-competitive, violent, hideous social environment that we're living in to day, in which the rich just get richer, I would like to see the rise of a "flower child movement". I would join it. And BTW, I've worked in the construction trades for 40 years, and still am. Well "grounded" and earned every dollar that I ever made. There is no future in what we've got going now. It's destroying the earth. I hope for the rise of people who have a better consciousness.
I don't think Tommy got enough credit for his comedic skills, and his timing with those facial expressions and looking at the camera. A lot of people thought he was the dummy character that he played, which means he did a superb job of it.
His takes were perfect. Like a hip George Burns. Tommy: The duo's funnyman and the skit star's straightman. Pretty humble. You can see this influence in talk show people like Conan.
What nonsense. They gave the Network big-wigs EXACTLY what they wanted: a show that would appeal to the new 18 - 34 demographic and they went right along with it in their mansions and fast cars. Hippies... right...
@@josephciolino2865 They certainly weren't making the show for charity. But they were often in conflict with some of the network executives and censors. And they were also canceled after only 3 seasons, and did put out some controversial stuff.
@@josephciolino2865 Wow man, you are really toking on that cynicism joint. Just because someone is getting paid for what they do doesn't discount the art that they are creating. If you want the perfection of a perfect suffering artist, you'll be waiting a long time. Learn to appreciate what these guys did. They lost their show for the socio-political stance. Anyway, your cynicism isn't hurting anyone but you. Hippies...Right On!!!
I was 8 during that time in history. My family had a Volkswagen Bus and we traveled all over the western US back then. We picked up hitchhikers all of the time and it was really cool to hear all of their stories. We picked up allot of Soldiers too. In my neighborhood we had houses that were occupied by those Cool people and I never got turned away. I would hear the Band playing in their backyard and I was Always Welcome. Cool and very Friendly People. I Miss them,
Man I miss those days. Especially growing up in the 70s, cruising around, warm Summer Breeze, eight-track tapes LOL... And our Infamous clothes hahaha. Too bad people today couldn't experience those years. Lot better world we lived in. Some might argue... But you had to be there to experience it
You got that right. Summer in the 70s, greatest days of my life. Just took my grandson fishing for the first time yesterday. I hope he has great memories...I’m worried for him.
Thank you so much for posting this! It's easy to forget just how great television was back then, and how unique and special Americans were. We could use some flower power these days, huh?
I’m 20 years old and I’m a proud hippie and a believer of the counterculture. I feel so alone in this time of rappers who don’t care about social justice and just make a living on hate and fascism. I’ve been laughed at and miss understood at school. I’ve contemplated suicide because of how alienated when all I wanna do is spread peace and love to my own generation. I truly hope there’s someone out there who understands me. ✌️❤️🌸
@@mattmadge5917 Keep loving the best you can and everything will fall into place. Learn the art of meditation . Remember "in the giving , is the getting". Love Is all there is. Give "it" and you will certainly get "it"
Cool that she mentioned "The Mothers"(of Invention). Zappa was an incredible composer/guitarist and led an ever evolving list of talented musicians. Their style is unmistakable and timeless.
Yea man !! Still play there records all the time never got to see them cause i live in NZ but would love to go see zappa plays zappa if they come over here
FZ was a ferocious proponent of individual Freedoms, mostly focusing on Freedom of Speech. He would be appalled at the amount of self-censorship demanded of people today and would rail against it loudly.
Zappa loved making fun of the hippies but they were cool enough to take it in stride, and they loved playing his music. You'd think he wouldn't be one of their favorites, but he was. He actually pioneered psychedelic music trends with "Freak Out!".
Leigh said all of this was improvised. They had a list of things to touch on but there was no script. She's the bomb here. I used Goldie O'Keefe as a pseudonym a few times.
I remember this episode from my childhood. The woman's name is Leigh French. She began her career with The Committe, an improvisational comdey group and is now a voice coach. Her castmates were the late Howard Hessman and Rob Reiner.
Tommy was perfect as the "dopey one". He and his brother played off each other beautifully. A friend of mine's sister had one of their folk albums in the late '60's. I just turned 69, BTW.
I remember when this first aired. I was just a little kid and wasn't sure whether or not she was for real. It was when I learned that "flower children" was another new term for "hippies." This was one of my favorite shows.
Nothing too much more comical than a seemingly serious conversation between a couple people like this. This was one of the most hilarious things I've seen in quite a long time
I used to watch this show, but I didn't remember the Goldie segments. So this really had me going. I was almost half way through the video clip before I realized it was a scripted "bit." Still hilarious, and all the more meaningful after I realized. This show was so ahead of its time!
"Several people pointed out that the female hippie with him was comedian and actress, Leigh French. French was a regular on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the 1960s. The above video was her introduction to the show, an audience plant named "Goldie Keif" (both slang terms for pot).Jan 6, 2021" RIP, Tommy ❤
I was a pup back in these days too. I remember by folks watching Glen Campbell's show, Johnny Cash's show, Laugh In and of course the Smothers Brothers.
Leigh French was a tremenendous addition to the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Really enjoy seeing this clip after all these years. This may be her first appearance as the Goldie Keif (later updated to "O'Keefe") character that made many of us fall in love with her back then.
I knew it had to be Leigh French, once I heard this audio. I just recently re-watched an old comedy movie that she appeared in: 'The Hollywood Knights.' I was about 24 years old when I first saw it, and it has so many actors appearing in it that later became very well known. Michelle Pfeiffer, Tony Danza, Fran Drescher, etc. Maybe not an elegant and high budget film, but it was a lot of fun!
Yeah that was a cool show for sure. My how times have changed. We could sure use some of that peace and love in this world today! Thanks for sharing that clip.
@@Janko1972 Actually I was. That time period held some of the fondest memories growing up with the music, culture, lots of drugs, and of course, Tommy and Dickie Smothers. Peace!
And a massive nightmare for the CENSORS. I think that is what finally put the show in the hopper. They just kept pushing the limits. I loved that show and it was a good family hour for my brother and I plus Mom and Dad. All are gone now but me. Great Memories.
She was hysterical with some of the bits she did, when she was on there. I keep thinking about those with her. The Smother's Brothers show was a very entertaining show. Sort of like laugh in. Yeah, our 60s chant was love peace and happiness.
I'm 75 now. Back in the 70"s I lived in Massachusetts for a few years. We spent a lot of time together in Boston on the Commons. Washington Street was where all the clubs of that era were. Quite a few bands got their starts there. Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. When I hear the music now it's like a trip back in a time machine. Say what you want about the Hippie days, at least it wasn't the killings and violence we live with now. Love to all. 🌼🌼🌼
I think still, though you romanticize the hippie days, they were not good for the now [future] of this country. There were deep government [deep state] drug experiments going on right along side the terrible MIC's Vietnam War, (to say there was no killing then is folly), and a total loss of morality and conservatism. The hippies were victims of a twisted government social engineering. It was reflected in some of the greatest music and stage arts still viable today, but it was the undoing of a great country. All the killing, all the boarder trouble, all the race baiting, all the riots, 911, even the fact that Creepy Joe is president by fraud, has its roots in the hippie era. You can't find fault with what I say, if you really know the truth. But I loved some results. All in the Family, Three's Company, Pink Floyd, Sandford and Son, The Jeffersons, Jimmy Hendrix, King Crimson, That Girl, The Maud Squad, The Monkeys, and so much more. But I still say, in a moral way, it was not good for us in the end.
@@markmurto I think you summed it up accurately. When people fall for fads, it shows just how easily manipulated they are. People following what they perceive to be popular, even if it paradoxically goes against their will. It's a result of social engineering. Hippies though they were seeking freedom from the establishment, but the movement was cult like.
You've perhaps been fooled by the media to think the world is so full of violence now. There are far too many murders today, of course, but murder rates in the US were actually higher back in the 1970s than they are now. Look it up.
My dad was a huge fan of this show. I was born just a tiny bit too late, but I think they still have great comedic timing. Not all comedy ages as well as this. I wonder who this actress was, she was terrific.
@@bruceg.6282 Her character's name, as heard at the end of this clip, is Goldie Keif (both names are a slang term for marijuana) and she went on to appear multiple times after this in a segment called "Share a Little Tea with Goldie". She had a successful acting career that lasted into the 2010's. At the time of this taping she was a member of the San Francisco improv group The Committee, which also counted among its ranks one Rob Reiner.
Better decades in a lot of ways than today. We have technical advantages, but look at what's going on. Nothing but division and pronoun this, woke that, fake outrage and bs. Glad I had a chance to grow up pre-cell phone and had a lifetime of getting out to do things. And I like to slip in the old sayings on people randomly in conversation sometimes as well😂
Back in my day (I was born in 1956) we had the best of everything, the best tv shows, the best movies, & definitely the best music. Now days we just have garbage, nothing worth watching or listening to.
Love reading all the comments from the good folks who shared my life experience of the 60's. Living in Long Island, NY at the time, I would have given my pinky toe to grow my hair long and be a hippie. Soon I'll turn 68, and can't believe what has taken place in the world. We need a Revolution again!
I remember watching this and think wow, "Hippie girls are sure cute" of course I was 12 years old. She fooled all of us and really was a great Actor. Leigh French still works in the Film Industry as far as I know. She was an Actress in Cult Hits like "Aloha Bobby & Rose". She mainly has many Voice-Over Credits and being a production assistant. The hip people who dared smoke Marijuana at the time because would have laughed because those names were slang for marijuana. This first appearance was a test which was so popular she became a regular performer in sketch called "Share a Little Tea with Goldie" about being stoned but then everyone knew she was acting. This first time was the best.
I interviewed Tom many years ago and he's actually a pretty smart guy with lots of social and cultural awareness for a better world. Can't imagine what he must think of where we are now.
I'd be curious to get his opinion if he was writing this skit using today's values if he would include that denial that he played any "fairy" songs as part of the joke around his music.
Hippie women are the most amazing women on the planet - my mom was (and still is) one, and she taught me so many incredible things when I was growing up.
She was a recurring character on their show. It was early in the flower power era, and this was introducing the public to that movement. Phrases that are well known now, were new to middle America.
I think that this is the first time I've seen this in color. We still had a black & white television when this first aired. I had never noticed Leigh's big blue eyes before.
I think your "mind's eye" wanted her eyes to be blue. To me, they look brown in this high-res blurr-o-vision, but a bio says they're green. www.celebrityhow.com/leigh-french-age-height-weight-husband-net-worth-bio/
They are… except that the new culture they are selling, isn’t the hippie Flower Power of the 60’s.. but the new, hip LGBQTPI++++ of the 20’s.. Lady Caka, Eilish, Cardi B…. Are all the same as the girl in the skit.. SELLING an AGENDA.
@@mitchgawlik1175 I know right ,my stepmom tried to make me wear mod clothes and wide bell bottom corduroy and I looked at her and said are you freaking crazy. And I put on my jean jacket in my blue jeans and tennis shoes and hopped on my Stingray bike and went and got high😅
@@mitchgawlik1175 no jacket for me. But when I was 18. I lived on the corner of Haight and Ashbury. For about a year in an old Victorian duplex. And did have a favorite pair of platform boots.
We didn't watch the Smother Brothers much as I was growing up. Not sure why, but now I feel like I kind of missed something because this right here is comedy gold. Both of these two are brilliant comedians, and way ahead of their time in terms of intelligence and delivery. I believe that she would have fit into any SNL cast very comfortably.
why never again? comics have been using it for generations. Rowan and Martin are a comic team with a TVshow from the same era it may be the Smothers Brothers got their show to ride Rowan&Martin's success their interplay of roles was very similar to what the Smothers Bros did George Burns played straight faced foil to his comic wife Gracie Allen these things get recycled becuz they are effective
I remember her from back when I was in college; I watched the 'Brothers'- never missed an episode! She's an actress named Leigh French, & she went on to do an occasional 'segment' on the show called 'Share A Little Tea With Goldie'... !
This girl is Leigh French. She was born in Ashland, Kentucky. In her early career as a regular on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour of the late-1960s, French portrayed a somewhat spaced-out or ditzy hippie named Goldie O'Keefe. The character was originally introduced, in an ostensible studio-audience interview segment, as Goldie Keif; both "Goldie" and "Keif" were slang terms for marijuana at the time.
Earthly, bohemian, all-natural Hippie chicks are so beautiful. I'm talking Michelle Phillips 1968 = a Natural Beauty or Stevie Nicks (back-in-the-day). oNe LovE from NYC
Sad day. rest In peace, Tommy. Smothers bros were one of the greatest comedy duos ever
RIP our YoYo man! ❤❤
he wasn't saved. he was a liberal democrat who believed in immorality being people's right.
I’m a patient in hospice and watching this brings back fond memories. I’m now a firm believer in seeing my life’s memories all return at the end. Very cool.
You have a lot of time left, man. Sending you ❤❤❤
I've been waking up from dreams lately ... of memories back in the 60's and 70's, makes me wonder if my time here is short ... which is cool. Jesus stepped into my life around my 40th BDay, and I look forward to heaven. I'll pray for you Scott, if you'd like? Hope you are not in much pain.
Thoughts are with you Scott. There's a paradise in the earth's future that's even better than that brief effort of peace and love. It includes the possibility of earthly resurrection too. Hope you can be there.
HOPE YOUR SMILING EVERYDAY AS PEOPLE NEED THEM
It's not the end that counts.
The hippie chick is not a random audience member but actually actress Leigh French in case anyone was wondering. She was also a meteorologist in another Smothers Brothers clip.
Yes. I thought so. What she says sounds too planned. She's cute though.
Well acted!
Thanks for the name
Now off we go to see The Wizard of Google
I thought so, her dialog with Tommy was too funny and her timing was really good. When she got to the turning down the volume and flipping the vertical on the T.V. I got suspicious.
@@julienielsen3746 She's cute as heck.
I have memories of laying in the floor watching this show while my parents sat in their chairs behind me. They are both long gone, but as I write this I'm sitting in the same room. My wife and I bought their place after they passed and fixed it up. I miss them.
I feel you. Best.
May God forgive them and may you all pass at Judgment Day so you can be reunited! 🙏🏻☦️🇹🇩
@@c0nstantin86 Dude wtf?
I did the same thing as a little boy. Mom & Dad are in the chairs and I'm on the floor with my siblings. Ahhh the 60s.
@@mrsmartypants_1 well, it is the best prayer you can give someone. lol.
believe in god or not, the dude gave his best wish in his own belief to someone else.
I think it is good, no?
She's so gorgeous. God bless vintage chicks❤
I'm 3 weeks shy of 65, and, yes, I did watch The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour! What a time to be alive!
Yep.
Here here.
The writing on that show was excellent. I will be 52 in March. I only have watched them in syndication. But I remember. They were great. There is comedy gold all the way back to vaudeville if people take the time to research. Comedians are very helpful.
I'm 5 months shy of 48, and I watched reruns of the Smothers Brothers, my friend.
Me too.
I miss the “ HIPPIE “ era of my life . There was so much love n peace amongst us . I would give anything to live that era again . 60’s n 70’s !!
@@johntitor2120 the war was the reason people tried to spread PEACE ☮️ AND LOVE ❤️ in the 60’s and early 70’s . Just some looked at it different than others
Reagan and the Repubs killed it in 1980. Killed it dead.
What was it like Tony? Give us a just a glimpse of a day in the life ❤
@@ebonyrenna well , living the “ Hippie Culture” I had long hair and smoked pot and was just laid back . Didn’t let shit bother me . I Wasn’t into fighting or starting shit , just getting ready high and making love to my chick . Used to wear clothes with patches sewed on them . Mostly my Levi jeans and jacket . Road a 500cc triumph chopper , with a 4ft front forks . We used to PROTEST the VIET NAM WAR . Just living the “ HIPPIE “ Life . I still have long hair and patches on my jeans . Except I can’t wear the Levi jeans 😁
@@tonyhurd5697 haha good stuff! I'm currently going through my own hippie era but unfortunately in an individualist society.
"it's cheaper than war" was impeccable
Wow. She brought me back 50 years in one minute! I loved the early 70's.
While hippies were getting some bad press back then, this routine did a great job of both laughing at the culture but also getting the essence of hippy culture across to the audience without denigrating it.
Our hippie guest's comportment seems almost presidential compared to most of the people you encounter today.
Well said, I liked the part where he said it was "cheaper than war".
This woman is a skilled actress with great timing and confidence. No way is this a random hippie chick in the audience.
It's Leigh French
I was thinking she was an audience plant as well.
@@williambattermann5008 really? its pretty obvious she is not just an audience member. I don't think they even intended for anybody to believe it was just an audience member
yep, she was a plant
@@grampsinsl5232 Well Leigh French was a great looking girl!
This must have been the introduction of the character Goldie to the Smothers Brothers show. She later had a regular segment called 'A Little Tea with Goldie.' And those of you around in the 60's remember just what kind of 'TEA' she was offering. 🙂 So much fun in those days!
She was an actress named Leigh French. The introduction to what would become a regular bit-- Share a Little Tea With Goldie.
She was hilarious.
I knew it had to be a plant but I don't recognize her.
So many years ago. I forgot about Goldie. Thanks for the synapse reboot.
I came down to the comments to see who she was, and I got my answer right off the top! Loving it!
Well that bit of realism ruined it, lol; jk.
She first appeared on “Gomer Pyle USMC” as the same character. On that show, she wore a bunch of psychedelic face paint.
I was an Air Force pilot way back in '72. A young lady practicing ballet, quietly by her self, caught my attention I thought what grace. I fell in love with her quiet inner beauty and intelligence. She didn't care about my car my job,she was just a nice kind person Wore simple cottin dresses or levis , sandles rode a ten speed. She had flowers in her, so I would always use Cheets&Chong's line."Hey hippie want to buy a watch? We are now 74 and my "hippie chick" is upstairs sleeping. Her first name is Dawn. She is a real life Mary Anne........When I tell that story she would note that she wasn't so much a hippie as broke. (rescue animals, help support her mother loan money to relatives) She still wears "flowers in her" Some guys have all the luck. P.S. I use her internet.
Congratulations on finding a unicorn!
I am married to a hippy chick too (I know those days are long gone but there are still that kind of people even if they are few.) We are 42 now with 2 beautiful kids. I have to say the best people we can marry is probably hippies.
@@bolumsonucanavari I hope people don't confuse hipsters with hippies ;-)
@@sealand000 lol, course not. :D
I’m still looking for my hippie chick. I hope she arrives sooner rather than later.
this woman deserves a lot more credit than she got for what she did with this comedic personna. It's a self-satire spoof of hippies, but still slips some of what gave the spirit worth into the goofball satire
It makes me laugh how people now after all we've seen from media dont realise that this is not random, its planned and scripted.
@@ibrax5 this was not random it's part of the show. Scripted.
She knew her lines, for sure. I’m impressed that she prepared so well
I don’t think I understand the satire given the time this came out. Maybe it would be satire today.
There was no shortage of character actors from this era who did bad hippie impressions on television-it wasn't just that they were spiteful and unkind beyond the requirements of satire and in the service of a reactionary viewership, but also clueless, as if they had never actually met anybody who belonged to the counterculture and were not at all curious. What a marked contrast this woman's performance makes: Not only is she easy on the eyes and very likeable, she also seems very well to embody that oblique ebullience characteristic of the type-I mean, she seems authentic enough to me.
her performance was superb - exquisite timing and body language
My introduction to the beauty of hippie chicks. I was in 7th grade when this aired, and a few girls at school looked like this. Cool time to be young.
I was thinking the same thing.
@@ronaldmcdonald3965 as the old adage states: great minds...
Not tats, metal, or heavy makeup. Just natural youth and beauty. So refreshing to remember how things used to be.
flowers in her hair, flowers everywhere.
Yeah, I was a kid at that age looking up women's skirts -- mainly my 3rd grade teacher.
She played that part to a Tee. Her timing and sarcasm are impeccable.
A great character actress, right up there with Foster Brooks, Jim Nabors, Ruth Buzzi, Lilly Tomlin, Don Knotts, and many others.
@Wayne Naylor Leigh French
Tommy's timing is perfect
It was in real time- the vibe was happening and that was where it's at...
Well I am 75 years old and I can never forget the way we were treated as soldiers coming home. So I really have no use for a hippie because it was against everything that I was taught and I believed in.
As far as her playing a part? She wasn't playing she was really that stupid and there was no acting in it. These time were when this country started to fall apart.
Character actress? She would never hold a flame to people like Foster Brooks, Jim Nabors, Ruth Buzzi, Lilly Tomlin and not even close to Don Knotts.
I'm 69 yo and I watched the Smothers Brothers years ago. Goldie was really funny as the Hippie Chick with her gentle satire. Far out, groovy, and a Natural High through laughter. Jenny
🤔 hmmm. I saw the name Goldie, could you be talking about laugh-in & Goldie Hawn?
@@GetajobNofreakingway No, this was actress Leigh French, who portrayed a hippie named Goldie O'Keefe, or Goldie Kief. Both "Goldie" and Kief" were slang terms for marijuana at the time, according to Wikipedia.
@@jennyfulcher8035 thank you for sharing your knowledge with me, I really appreciate it.
@@GetajobNofreakingway You're welcome. She was one of my favorite characters when I watched the Smothers Brothers years ago.
@@jennyfulcher8035 I barely got to watch them, my dad was in control of the television when their show was on. He was hardcore country and western
“WHERE EVER YOUR AT IS REALLY WHERE ITS AT”
What a beautiful era of realization and understanding.. I see this time in USA history as a breakthrough of enlightenment.. That generation was finally exposed to the teachings of eastern mysticism, Hinduism/Buddhism, & true Christianity, where you become truly conscious of ones self.. becoming aware that we all are connected to one another..
To understanding that what really matters is right now. This present moment in time is so precious since It is momentary & will disappear in a flash.
***So let’s enjoy life! And let us continue the pursuit of self realization and to see the beauty in the now. 🌎🧘🏻⏳⚖️❤️🔥🧠🫀🫂🪢🪬🙏✝️☮️🔯🕉☯️✌️🪷🥰
And That's comedy gold. Decades old, and still hilarious.
Lot of Americans don't do irony, satire, parody. Here is one of the finest pieces of comedy I have ever seen.
what the fuck are you talking about 'americans don't do irony"
Lmao what? That's all Americans do is irony, satire and parody. You people in the comments are really weirding me out lol.
THIS is one of the finest pieces of comedy you have ever seen? Not incredible legendary directors who put thought into their comedic films? uncultured swine
@@DracoPadilla it's all boomers man, they're pretty detached from reality
To be fair. I can say the same to millennials. They're pretty waaaay out there. The zoomers might even follow suite
What a great time to be alive back then. I LOVED the hippies when I was a little kid. Aside from the abundance amount of drugs, their philosophy about loving all people and getting people to chill out was one that resonated with me, deeply. As a young black child, i always felt like I fitted in with them regardless of my race. Being around hippies, i never felt as though my color and race was even considered, about anything going on around them. They were cool as hell and very "Free" thinkers. I loved that time of my life. My how times have changed. I wish we could live those days again. She played a hippie to the tee. It was the beginning of that movement, to be honest, and she was probably one, in her private life. It was exactly how they thought, sounded and dressed. I remember all the dyed tee-shirts with peace signs and "flower power", written on them. Yes we had our so called "Jesus Freaks" and "Flower Childs". It was all about "LOVE", though, and loving each other no matter who you were. We could use more of that philosophy today. Bring back the 60's and 70's.
Very cool!
Well I care for the wild children that we're left by the free living drug living flower child . The kids had no ideal of not jumping into garbage cans and peoples personal space and the boundaries of sexual touching. And when I was younger in a children home there were too many there from parents leaving them for weeks, sending them to school with little to slips as clothing. Drugs are so wonderful. Why was I there my gran passed away and my younge mother was I'll. I felt bad for the children.
@@journeybrook9357 These days everybody does everything right and stays safe and is never uncomfortable and triggered and they are also miserable. Never have surveys found so many with so few friends and so much depression.
Yep, my time. I'm 68.
Yes we could definitely use more of that spirit of universal love that was abundant in the 1960s! I'm a childlike senior citizen now! During this holiday season I just want to wish everyone peace on Earth and good will to ALL!
His facial expressions! Spot on! Killed it. Just killed it.
never thought of him as an actor until I saw this
This was one of the funniest shows because the guys were so honest and so truthful. I remember this skit and it was hilarious! If you were not around in the 60's you missed a lot.
Sure did. Bruce lee.
Your comment is Far Out Man.
@@lamb_chops7085 Bro... she was a plant, part of the show. Relax, it was a script.
60s was good. The 70s was also good. 80s was also good. After that. No comments. 😂
@@th3unmaker
Yes it was a “skit”…
Now they call it Social Engineering. watch it and see how many new concepts, words and phrases she introduces and implants to the audience and society. Hitchhiking, flower child, air headedness, naïveté, groovy, far out, tuning in, dress, hairstyle and the whole 60’s Flower Power AGENDA!!!
You might get the impression that the Smothers were satirizing hippiedom...but as the sketch ends, you realize that they were on board with a lot of their ideas. I was 17 at the time. and if you are too young to remember, this was a magical, hugely creative time to be alive (Vietnam notwithstanding!)
"Vietnam not withstanding!" We can say that about every decade.
Well , you know , I think its like kind of a balance thing , you know
it was scripted
Her little dig about war didn't work too well. But it did the job. Sadly, passed away in May of 2023
I don’t care what kind of mood I’m in, I laugh every time I watch this Hippie Chick segment. I’m 70 now, and you just had to be there.
I'm 70, too.
We grew up in Amazing Times....
I'm 68. Yep, good old days....
Velly intellesting 🪖👓🙃🕳BUT STUPID 🚬🗣Artie
I'm 47, and I somewhat envy you all. To be young in those days really seems like something special. I think Gen X-ers will have some figures to tribute to as well. Most of us learned from you. Loved this whole conversation with her. I'm gonna have to try and revive some of this dialect. Had to lay a comment and reply. The "flip the vertical hold" so she could watched his Head go up into the TV....😂
Her 'Share a little tea with Goldie' skits were great, too.
Had forgotten how great this show was... Looked forward to it every week.
I feel So fortunate to have grown up during that time. I can’t imagine being a child today. Looking back my childhood was a gift and a beautiful one at that.
Why cant you imagine be a child today compared to that time? Just curious.
@@kickstar1 Just compare this sketch to what passes as comedy on TV today. In my experience, life in general has a harder edge to it than when I was growing up (50s and 60s).
@@plane_guy6051 I'm not sure I would use the baboon analogy, but in general yes, I think those are among the things that give life a harder edge. It seems to me a large proportion all of the various "tribes" we now see in the U.S. are misbehaving (as compared to my reference era): republican, democrat, conservative, liberal, black, white, etc. The question is: Why? Why are parents giving their kids too much leeway? Why have music, TV, and the movies become so seedy? And so on.
I agree that individuals bear a large part of the responsibility for this change. They have allowed themselves to value instant gratification over the hard work of living a quality life. To value spectacle over thoughtful introspection. To value fantasy escape over meaningful discussion and decision making. I see many of the destructive things that people do as being reactions to the stress of living in an economy that will not or cannot provide a living wage for all honest workers. An economy that requires huge levels of debt to buy a house or get a college education. An economy that is becoming more and more difficult to navigate year by year.
In other words, I think we are living in a system that does not encourage rational behavior. We're living in a system that fosters destructive behavior. And to top it off, our elected leaders at the national level do not seem to be doing anything useful. The "American Dream" has died for many people. Nobody is even acknowledging that fact much less doing anything about it.
@@kickstar1 We Must be out of fertilizer Lol
@@plane_guy6051 I agree. Outside it's 2021 but inside, here in this house, it's 1954.
I grew up in very Midwestern feeling Pittsburgh PA in the 60s and early 70s. This show was frowned upon by 'squares' and uptighties, for sure, but it and Laugh-In were great! Always with the counterculture innuendo. My Sister was a hippie, and they let our high school out every Friday to protest the war. Other than the war--whose images are seared into my mind permanently--it was a fantastic time to grow up. I wouldn't have traded it for anything. All the music, art, culture and social awakening, it was a magic time, as a kid, you could feel it.
I was in SF in the 70s, this girl reminds me of some of the girls around there. Man, there was some serious positive energy flowing back then. I got lost in the 80s, but I've found my way back. I'm still all about peace, love, and light. Still wanting to save our mother earth. I think its high time for a return to the flower power movement!
You are welcome to start the flower child movement again. The rest of us will continue to work for a living to grow our families while you sit back and enjoy your comfort drugs and live off the hard work of grounded Americans.
@@jmadratz There's a thing called "group outsider homogenization" where people outside their group tend to see those different as all the same. People who want to properly care for our environment or want to engineer a more peaceful, verdant and socially just society do indeed have families, work for a living and are not into drugs so much, maybe don't drink at all , very likely don't smoke cigarettes and enjoy a healthy diet and exercise. Same goes both ways. To your health, right livelihood and compassion towards others!
@@rexbruce Very well said.
@@jmadratz In this highly-competitive, violent, hideous social environment that we're living in to day, in which the rich just get richer, I would like to see the rise of a "flower child movement". I would join it. And BTW, I've worked in the construction trades for 40 years, and still am. Well "grounded" and earned every dollar that I ever made. There is no future in what we've got going now. It's destroying the earth. I hope for the rise of people who have a better consciousness.
@@markj7612 Marxism is where we're going. If that's hope, I'm out.
Its been around fifty years since seeing this on TV but the skit and all of them were totally hilarious. She was a doll back in the day.
We memorized all of her tag lines and double entendres.
@@monkmchorning what's her name?
@@memphisdaniels3218 Leigh French
I don't think Tommy got enough credit for his comedic skills, and his timing with those facial expressions and looking at the camera. A lot of people thought he was the dummy character that he played, which means he did a superb job of it.
His takes were perfect. Like a hip George Burns. Tommy: The duo's funnyman and the skit star's straightman. Pretty humble. You can see this influence in talk show people like Conan.
He wrote the material too I understand
Don't let their short hair fool you.
The Smothers Brothers were hippies at 💖 heart. They broke down TV barriers.
What nonsense. They gave the Network big-wigs EXACTLY what they wanted: a show that would appeal to the new 18 - 34 demographic and they went right along with it in their mansions and fast cars. Hippies... right...
@@josephciolino2865 They certainly weren't making the show for charity. But they were often in conflict with some of the network executives and censors. And they were also canceled after only 3 seasons, and did put out some controversial stuff.
@@josephciolino2865 Wow man, you are really toking on that cynicism joint. Just because someone is getting paid for what they do doesn't discount the art that they are creating. If you want the perfection of a perfect suffering artist, you'll be waiting a long time. Learn to appreciate what these guys did. They lost their show for the socio-political stance. Anyway, your cynicism isn't hurting anyone but you.
Hippies...Right On!!!
@@josephciolino2865 Sounds like you're incredibly jealous! I loved the Smother's Brothers.
@@rft2001 He played guitar on Give Peace a Chance. Close enough!
I was 8 during that time in history. My family had a Volkswagen Bus and we traveled all over the western US back then. We picked up hitchhikers all of the time and it was really cool to hear all of their stories. We picked up allot of Soldiers too. In my neighborhood we had houses that were occupied by those Cool people and I never got turned away. I would hear the Band playing in their backyard and I was Always Welcome. Cool and very Friendly People. I Miss them,
Man I miss those days. Especially growing up in the 70s, cruising around, warm Summer Breeze, eight-track tapes LOL... And our Infamous clothes hahaha. Too bad people today couldn't experience those years. Lot better world we lived in. Some might argue... But you had to be there to experience it
Selective memory is a wonderful thing. Way better than the Selective Service.
A lot of us were cruising around, courtesy of Uncle Sam, myself it was on an Aircraft Carrier.
I grew up in Southern California in the 70's. Cruising Van Nuts Blvd, going to the Whisky a go go etc. The beach.. miss those days
@@larrymunden7638 I was on an aircraft carrier also. I definitely get it LOL
You got that right. Summer in the 70s, greatest days of my life. Just took my grandson fishing for the first time yesterday. I hope he has great memories...I’m worried for him.
Thank you so much for posting this! It's easy to forget just how great television was back then, and how unique and special Americans were. We could use some flower power these days, huh?
TV was great back then✌
I agree with the term, were. And, yes we could really benefit from flower power today.
I’m 20 years old and I’m a proud hippie and a believer of the counterculture. I feel so alone in this time of rappers who don’t care about social justice and just make a living on hate and fascism. I’ve been laughed at and miss understood at school. I’ve contemplated suicide because of how alienated when all I wanna do is spread peace and love to my own generation. I truly hope there’s someone out there who understands me. ✌️❤️🌸
@@mattmadge5917 Keep loving the best you can and everything will fall into place.
Learn the art of meditation .
Remember "in the giving , is the getting".
Love Is all there is.
Give "it" and you will certainly get "it"
There have never been great times it's just your retrospective of youthfulness gone
Cool that she mentioned "The Mothers"(of Invention). Zappa was an incredible composer/guitarist and led an ever evolving list of talented musicians. Their style is unmistakable and timeless.
Yea man !! Still play there records all the time never got to see them cause i live in NZ but would love to go see zappa plays zappa if they come over here
FZ was a ferocious proponent of individual Freedoms, mostly focusing on Freedom of Speech. He would be appalled at the amount of self-censorship demanded of people today and would rail against it loudly.
SHES OUTTA SIGHT...
In the mid 70's the drummer from the Mothers was in Lahaina when I was there. He and worked at the two best restaurants in town
Zappa loved making fun of the hippies but they were cool enough to take it in stride, and they loved playing his music. You'd think he wouldn't be one of their favorites, but he was. He actually pioneered psychedelic music trends with "Freak Out!".
Leigh said all of this was improvised. They had a list of things to touch on but there was no script.
She's the bomb here. I used Goldie O'Keefe as a pseudonym a few times.
I remember this episode from my childhood. The woman's name is Leigh French. She began her career with The Committe, an improvisational comdey group and is now a voice coach. Her castmates were the late Howard Hessman and Rob Reiner.
Leigh French famous for her Victory Thru Vegetables quote. She cracked me up.
She and Rob appeared together as a hippie couple on Gomer Pyle.
Tommy was perfect as the "dopey one". He and his brother played off each other beautifully. A friend of mine's sister had one of their folk albums in the late '60's. I just turned 69, BTW.
I remember when this first aired. I was just a little kid and wasn't sure whether or not she was for real. It was when I learned that "flower children" was another new term for "hippies." This was one of my favorite shows.
Nothing too much more comical than a seemingly serious conversation between a couple people like this. This was one of the most hilarious things I've seen in quite a long time
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@@wrongfullyaccused7139 gee.... ya think?
@@1SqueakyWheel : I saw the introduction of the smothers brothers show. So, I don't think it. I know it.
@@wrongfullyaccused7139 your sarcasm detector needs a tune-up, friend. ;-)
@@1SqueakyWheel : Nope. I like it right where it is. Goodbye.
That was one hell of a virtuoso performance by that young 'hippie chick'.
Cute actress.
She's slightly vacant but totally loveable - really a great performance. Leigh French had an improv background and she nails this one.
IT'S THE DRUGS MAN CAN YOU DIG IT 🙃
Funny that a great deal of commenters didn't know this was a skit/act.
@@govinda102000 They say it with a lot of authority, too.
VACANT? AIN'T THAT THE SCHTICK?
Thanks, I recognized her but just couldn't bring up her name. I watched The Smothers Brothers religiously, I'm 72 now.
I used to watch this show, but I didn't remember the Goldie segments. So this really had me going. I was almost half way through the video clip before I realized it was a scripted "bit." Still hilarious, and all the more meaningful after I realized. This show was so ahead of its time!
I had never seen this show, but just now I thought her story was the real deal, until near the end when I thought that someone must have scripted it.
Played by Leigh French.
And it's still ahead of this time.
Far out man
This is a skit?
Seriously curious.
I always loved the Smothers Brothers show they were so far ahead of their time, and I know they drove the sensors crazy.
sensors?? 😹
@@dunruden9720 The sensors of the censors :D
Yeah, they sent the readings off the chart!
Mary not only that, they drove the Censors crazy too. Censorship. You know like we have now? Where you can't say what you feel?
@@horacesawyer2487 Are you not saying what you feel right there?
"Several people pointed out that the female hippie with him was comedian and actress, Leigh French. French was a regular on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the 1960s. The above video was her introduction to the show, an audience plant named "Goldie Keif" (both slang terms for pot).Jan 6, 2021"
RIP, Tommy
❤
Ahh, the memories. I was 7. My folks would watch this every week.
I was a pup back in these days too. I remember by folks watching Glen Campbell's show, Johnny Cash's show, Laugh In and of course the Smothers Brothers.
@@moncorp1 Don't forget Mac Davis and Flip Wilson. :)
Leigh French was a tremenendous addition to the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Really enjoy seeing this clip after all these years. This may be her first appearance as the Goldie Keif (later updated to "O'Keefe") character that made many of us fall in love with her back then.
I knew it had to be Leigh French, once I heard this audio. I just recently re-watched an old comedy movie that she appeared in: 'The Hollywood Knights.' I was about 24 years old when I first saw it, and it has so many actors appearing in it that later became very well known. Michelle Pfeiffer, Tony Danza, Fran Drescher, etc. Maybe not an elegant and high budget film, but it was a lot of fun!
Not too many knew Keif was a reference to weed. But they laughed as if they we're in on that little last word joke.
Yeah that was a cool show for sure. My how times have changed. We could sure use some of that peace and love in this world today! Thanks for sharing that clip.
You obviously weren't around in 1968. No Peace and Love as I remember.
Right on.
@@Janko1972 Actually I was. That time period held some of the fondest memories growing up with the music, culture, lots of drugs, and of course, Tommy and Dickie Smothers. Peace!
@@Janko1972 --I was around then and Yes there was Free Love Everywhere in Ca...
@@Janko1972 Sorry you missed it. It will never be repeated, and you didn't get to live it.
I'm in my mid-60's and actually busted out in a laugh at a couple of points. A great show...WELL AHEAD OF ITS TIME
And a massive nightmare for the CENSORS. I think that is what finally put the show in the hopper. They just kept pushing the limits. I loved that show and it was a good family hour for my brother and I plus Mom and Dad. All are gone now but me. Great Memories.
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She was hysterical with some of the bits she did, when she was on there. I keep thinking about those with her.
The Smother's Brothers show was a very entertaining show. Sort of like laugh in.
Yeah, our 60s chant was love peace and happiness.
Also destroyed our society today
Oh how I love her. I remember her from childhood, I didn't get the weed reference part back then. I sure do now.
I'm 75 now. Back in the 70"s I lived in Massachusetts for a few years. We spent a lot of time together in Boston on the Commons. Washington Street was where all the clubs of that era were. Quite a few bands got their starts there. Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. When I hear the music now it's like a trip back in a time machine. Say what you want about the Hippie days, at least it wasn't the killings and violence we live with now. Love to all. 🌼🌼🌼
I could tell that this was staged, but I get what you are saying.
I think still, though you romanticize the hippie days, they were not good for the now [future] of this country. There were deep government [deep state] drug experiments going on right along side the terrible MIC's Vietnam War, (to say there was no killing then is folly), and a total loss of morality and conservatism. The hippies were victims of a twisted government social engineering. It was reflected in some of the greatest music and stage arts still viable today, but it was the undoing of a great country. All the killing, all the boarder trouble, all the race baiting, all the riots, 911, even the fact that Creepy Joe is president by fraud, has its roots in the hippie era. You can't find fault with what I say, if you really know the truth. But I loved some results. All in the Family, Three's Company, Pink Floyd, Sandford and Son, The Jeffersons, Jimmy Hendrix, King Crimson, That Girl, The Maud Squad, The Monkeys, and so much more. But I still say, in a moral way, it was not good for us in the end.
@@markmurto I think you summed it up accurately. When people fall for fads, it shows just how easily manipulated they are. People following what they perceive to be popular, even if it paradoxically goes against their will. It's a result of social engineering. Hippies though they were seeking freedom from the establishment, but the movement was cult like.
You've forgotten all about charlies girls. Susan Atkins would have been just like this...
You've perhaps been fooled by the media to think the world is so full of violence now. There are far too many murders today, of course, but murder rates in the US were actually higher back in the 1970s than they are now. Look it up.
My dad was a huge fan of this show. I was born just a tiny bit too late, but I think they still have great comedic timing. Not all comedy ages as well as this. I wonder who this actress was, she was terrific.
The actress's name is Leigh French
I don't think she was an actress at all.
@@bruceg.6282 Her character's name, as heard at the end of this clip, is Goldie Keif (both names are a slang term for marijuana) and she went on to appear multiple times after this in a segment called "Share a Little Tea with Goldie". She had a successful acting career that lasted into the 2010's. At the time of this taping she was a member of the San Francisco improv group The Committee, which also counted among its ranks one Rob Reiner.
@@waveofmist Bruce is committed to his delusion. Words cannot compete with that.
@@bruceg.6282 Here's the role I remember. There were others. ua-cam.com/video/GEDCTrUhNo4/v-deo.html
She was a regular on the show and this is one of her characters. Her name is Leigh French.
Good times
Yeah she was really funny.
Thankyou😁
Really..... I spotted that fake from a mile away
Yes. It was obviously scripted.
"And then you flip the vertical hold and your head goes flying up over and over" lol, good lines!
Imagine how many people today have absolutely no idea of what a "vertical hold" control is.
Why was that so cool?! I was smiling the entire interaction of these two people. 😁
Because he was a great deadpan comedian and she was so ditzy with the corny hippie jargon so popular at the time...
Because of respect and caring and brotherly love, and embracing all of that without judging. And they're both funny.
i am 53 and i still use my late 60 and 70s slang. .bringing it back man.
Better decades in a lot of ways than today. We have technical advantages, but look at what's going on. Nothing but division and pronoun this, woke that, fake outrage and bs. Glad I had a chance to grow up pre-cell phone and had a lifetime of getting out to do things. And I like to slip in the old sayings on people randomly in conversation sometimes as well😂
Those were the days my friend.
I thought they'd never end.
👍
ua-cam.com/video/y3KEhWTnWvE/v-deo.html
We sang and danced forever and a day!
Discovering such things is what makes UA-cam my favourite part of the internet :) Peace and Love from India :)
That show was out of sight man! I really dig the smothers brothers! Those cats knocked my socks off with they're crazy jive talk!
Yeah man, those brothers always blew my mind when they laid some of their funny me. One hit of their hilarity and I went to laughsville.
Back in my day (I was born in 1956) we had the best of everything, the best tv shows, the best movies, & definitely the best music. Now days we just have garbage, nothing worth watching or listening to.
Love reading all the comments from the good folks who shared my life experience of the 60's. Living in Long Island, NY at the time, I would have given my pinky toe to grow my hair long and be a hippie. Soon I'll turn 68, and can't believe what has taken place in the world. We need a Revolution again!
Great Neck HS 1970. What a strange trip it was, 75% of my girl classmates looked like her.
I saw these guys live well after their peak in popularity. Late 80’s maybe?
They killed it.
Leigh ne Goldie passed away in May of 2023. But her laughs and talent are still entertaining original and new fans. What a great job.
She’s great. She laid the entire hippie lexicon on us, man! LOL
Totally ... ha ha ...
Lily Tomlin did a bit with a similar delivery.
The Beatles and the Mothers...... that was it man ..... that was the 60;s
@@mickavellian Well that and Hendrix and the Cream, but if I had to pack the whole era into a single band it's the Mothers hands down.
...she probably laid the entire Smothers Brothers staff!
Man…she pulled that skit off flawlessly.
I saw she was part of a comedy group called the Committee. A very talented improv group. Howard Hesseman from WKRP was part of the group.
@@tombucsfan666 That's cool.
I remember watching this and think wow, "Hippie girls are sure cute" of course I was 12 years old. She fooled all of us and really was a great Actor. Leigh French still works in the Film Industry as far as I know. She was an Actress in Cult Hits like "Aloha Bobby & Rose". She mainly has many Voice-Over Credits and being a production assistant. The hip people who dared smoke Marijuana at the time because would have laughed because those names were slang for marijuana. This first appearance was a test which was so popular she became a regular performer in sketch called "Share a Little Tea with Goldie" about being stoned but then everyone knew she was acting. This first time was the best.
I interviewed Tom many years ago and he's actually a pretty smart guy with lots of social and cultural awareness for a better world. Can't imagine what he must think of where we are now.
I'd be curious to get his opinion if he was writing this skit using today's values if he would include that denial that he played any "fairy" songs as part of the joke around his music.
@@SurfCityBill Nope the Woke Censors would have cancelled him and Antifa would be burning down their studio
Even though 'Mom liked Dick best', Tommy was my favorite. 💖 🙂
Hippie women are the most amazing women on the planet - my mom was (and still is) one, and she taught me so many incredible things when I was growing up.
She was a recurring character on their show. It was early in the flower power era, and this was introducing the public to that movement. Phrases that are well known now, were new to middle America.
I remember the Smothers Brothers as a young kid in the 60's. They were hilarious. it was a show the whole family could watch. 😃
Very difficult times back then for many of us, but also beautifully simple compared to today.
I'm crowding 8 decades and I always enjoyed the Smothers Brothers - and found the flower children just funny as everything.
I think that this is the first time I've seen this in color. We still had a black & white television when this first aired. I had never noticed Leigh's big blue eyes before.
I think your "mind's eye" wanted her eyes to be blue. To me, they look brown in this high-res blurr-o-vision, but a bio says they're green. www.celebrityhow.com/leigh-french-age-height-weight-husband-net-worth-bio/
I see blue.
I think they're gold
@@STEVENFRYFRY Ok, Greenie.
...Bluie? That 1sounds wrong... '°'
@@favoritemustard3542 lol flashed back to the dress
Awesome! Tommy just scored a bag of Columbian Gold on live TV.
Farm out! Right arm man..yeah, I dig it.✌🏻⚘
I love Tommy , his facial expressions are priceless!
Love is definitely cheaper than war!
I can dig it!🥰
"Highest show I've ever been on, I'll tell ya, yeah, & I've never used television before."
Used to watch Smothers Brothers every sun night loved the shows
Oh if they ever made a show like this again. Id actually start watching television again.
They are… except that the new culture they are selling, isn’t the hippie Flower Power of the 60’s.. but the new, hip LGBQTPI++++ of the 20’s.. Lady Caka, Eilish, Cardi B…. Are all the same as the girl in the skit.. SELLING an AGENDA.
You're watching UA-cam, what's the difference?
@@dingleberry9341 Big difference. You can choose your content and have chronological freedom on UA-cam as opposed to the slavery of modern tv.
This show still makes me smile 😃 😊 😀 😄 😁
"This is really the highest television show I've been on. I've never used television before." LOLOLOL
But a couple minutes later she says to Tommy, "We really admire you, too."
I grew up in San Francisco and this may be and acted out situation ,but she really got the spirit and essence the mood during the 60s.
But some people tried too hard to be hip and natural and ended up sounding foolish.
@@mitchgawlik1175 I know right ,my stepmom tried to make me wear mod clothes and wide bell bottom corduroy and I looked at her and said are you freaking crazy. And I put on my jean jacket in my blue jeans and tennis shoes and hopped on my Stingray bike and went and got high😅
@@loveistruth5713 Funny thing here is I can picture that scene. So I'm guessing you didn't
get into Nehru jackets and beads.
@@mitchgawlik1175 no jacket for me. But when I was 18. I lived on the corner of Haight and Ashbury. For about a year in an old Victorian duplex. And did have a favorite pair of platform boots.
She is gorgeous.
I was so born at the wrong time girls like this were everywhere in the 60s
@@mairyhuff7102 I was growing up then, would have been 18 in 1968. There weren't all that many hippie girls that looked that good back then.
@@rodneysmith7737 Thanks because I was thinking most girls looked that good back then.
@@rodneysmith7737 They weren't all so overweight back then, though.
ChildOfThe1970s - You need to get out more.
"I hitchhiked down here.".
That is the most "of age" quote from this whole thing lol. Thank goodness she missed Bundy by a hair.
We didn't watch the Smother Brothers much as I was growing up. Not sure why, but now I feel like I kind of missed something because this right here is comedy gold.
Both of these two are brilliant comedians, and way ahead of their time in terms of intelligence and delivery. I believe that she would have fit into any SNL cast very comfortably.
Maybe your parents had better taste than this rubbish.
His stoic reactions are a comic format we will probably never see again.
Johnny Carson was amazingly good at it too.
why never again?
comics have been using it for generations.
Rowan and Martin are a comic team with a TVshow from the same era
it may be the Smothers Brothers got their show to ride Rowan&Martin's success
their interplay of roles was very similar to what the Smothers Bros did
George Burns played straight faced foil to his comic wife Gracie Allen
these things get recycled becuz they are effective
That was a great show. The executives at CBS had no clue what the Smothers Brothers were about.
Or, they knew exactly what they were about and didn't want it.
I know she's an actress but everything she says always makes perfect sense
I remember her from back when I was in college; I watched the 'Brothers'- never missed an episode! She's an actress named Leigh French, & she went on to do an occasional 'segment' on the show called 'Share A Little Tea With Goldie'... !
This girl is Leigh French. She was born in Ashland, Kentucky. In her early career as a regular on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour of the late-1960s, French portrayed a somewhat spaced-out or ditzy hippie named Goldie O'Keefe. The character was originally introduced, in an ostensible studio-audience interview segment, as Goldie Keif; both "Goldie" and "Keif" were slang terms for marijuana at the time.
This is so funny, LMAO. Fortunately I got to live in this area and did loved those hippie chicks.
Wonderful, THE Style was Brilliantly executed, THE Close ups all OF it was THE Work of A Fine cast and Crew, Well Done!
Earthly, bohemian, all-natural Hippie chicks are so beautiful. I'm talking Michelle Phillips 1968 = a Natural Beauty or Stevie Nicks (back-in-the-day). oNe LovE from NYC
@Phil M Yeah, in real life.
Sadie Mae Glutz and Squeaky Fromme come to mind
Priceless, still digging it today.
GROOOOOVY
What a beautiful serene happy natural young woman,, with inner peace in her heart,,we need her now in 2021,. the best video on UA-cam
I didn't check all the comments...so,
That was Leigh French. A very talented actress and comedian.
Man his facial expressions are golden!