Date of Birth
2 February 1937,
New York, New York, USA
Birth Name
Thomas Bolyn Smothers III
Height
5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Spouse
| Marcy Carriker |
(9 September 1990 - present) 2 children |
| Rochelle Robley |
(17 July 1974 - ?) (divorced) 1 child |
Trivia
Brother of Dick Smothers.
Children: Bo (b. 1993) and Riley Rose (b. 1996).
Owns Remick Ridge Vineyards in Kenwood, California.
Tom and his brother, Dick, were born on Governor's Island in New York Harbor. Their father, who was stationed on the military base on that island, moved his pregnant wife there to be close to him.
Tom has a son Thomas IV by his first marriage.
Tom's father died during WWII while being held as a POW in Japan.
On one of their "Smothers Brothers" television shows, Tom Smothers unintentionally sparked a firestorm of controversy when he innocently said as a joke, "Easter is when Jesus comes out of his tomb, and if he sees his shadow he goes back in and we get six more weeks of winter."
Is a member of the fraternity Phi Sigma Kappa.
Attended San Jose State University in California.
Personal Quotes
"I'm watching television and I'm not seeing anything. I watch all the cable shows where you should see some looseness and you're not hearing anything. ...There's a general dumbing down of everybody in this country. ...It just kept going and going until it's gotten to the point where it's all mean-spirited and vulgar. It not only affects comedy, it affects film. It affects literature. It's pervasive on radio. There's that guy Howard Stern and all that smart ass, vulgar, sexual pretending like they're expanding freedom of speech. They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing." (Chicago Tribune interview; November 28, 2002)
... Floyd Sampson with Tom Smothers
Tom Smothers \x26middot; Dick Smothers
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