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  • Опубликовано: 3 фев 2017
  • A Leigh French clip from the April 20th, 1969 episode of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

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  • @jimwilliams3517
    @jimwilliams3517 3 года назад +78

    This lady, Leigh French, is now 75 and lives in Ashland Kentucky. We Love You Still, Ms. Leigh French!!!!!!!

    • @whalesong999
      @whalesong999 3 года назад +6

      Great that you know that. I saw her just yesterday on another clip from The Smothers Brother's show as the flower child from Haight-Ashbury.

    • @garychambers5850
      @garychambers5850 3 года назад +2

      @@whalesong999 I think that's the clip I seen. She used a diffeent name

    • @dabneyoffermein595
      @dabneyoffermein595 3 года назад +1

      NO WAY!!! are you sure? Im guessing she was 24 here, maybe 23

    • @jimwilliams3517
      @jimwilliams3517 3 года назад +1

      @@dabneyoffermein595 Type her name into google search and you'll see. That show was filmed many years ago. I actually watched that show on its original broadcast. I'm 64.

    • @NuisanceMan
      @NuisanceMan 3 года назад +2

      @@dabneyoffermein595 You're about right since this was over fifty years ago.

  • @ernestolombardo5811
    @ernestolombardo5811 3 года назад +50

    I have no idea how Leigh French slipped under my radar until now. She was quite a force of nature! There's also a huge sophistication to her act.

    • @bryanharrell4059
      @bryanharrell4059 3 года назад +10

      I'm with you. Just discovered her. It's amazing how this bit is even more relevant today than all these years ago. Intelligent comedy with a point and you're right; sophistication.

    • @billsanborn5836
      @billsanborn5836 10 месяцев назад

      We love Leigh French Sophistication@@bryanharrell4059

  • @annbush1826
    @annbush1826 3 года назад +29

    “go green and grow oregano” Tommy Smothers has such fun with this one! They were and remain the most intelligent and original voices ever seen and heard on t.v.

  • @ellenkomp3637
    @ellenkomp3637 2 года назад +9

    Love this bit, and Ms. French. Her "Share a Little Tea with Goldie" segment was also breakthrough.

  • @sylviastreet6785
    @sylviastreet6785 3 года назад +17

    I love Leigh’s “hi” Mexico! Her whole forecast is right-on Sister!

  • @oughtssought1198
    @oughtssought1198 2 года назад +5

    I may be tempted to watch this daily for the rest of this year

  • @JamieTransNyc
    @JamieTransNyc 3 года назад +34

    Look at the beauty of this performance. This is done live, in one take with no teleprompter. She memorized her lines just a if she were a professional. She delivered them with perfect timing just as if she were a professional, and she maintained character just as if she were a professional. (Are you paying attention Jessica Alba?)

    • @jazzopera
      @jazzopera 2 года назад +11

      She was a professional actress. Leigh French.

    • @mac1766
      @mac1766 Год назад +4

      Cue cards...

    • @xiaowei1
      @xiaowei1 Год назад +5

      Leigh French was an exceptional improvisation actress, which is why she was hired to appear on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. This skit was very well executed.

    • @ADAMSIXTIES
      @ADAMSIXTIES Год назад +3

      Aside from the first sentence this is inaccurate. The show was not live, it was taped and they had rehearsals. And regarding "as if she were a professional"...ummm.. Leigh French WAS a professional, and yes, used queue cards. Sorry to burst your bubble.

    • @michaelsleater5865
      @michaelsleater5865 Год назад

      It's "cue" cards.

  • @Gichanasa
    @Gichanasa 3 года назад +14

    It's 2021 and how visionary she was... wow, just wow.

  • @thumbtackincarpetimpalingy7320
    @thumbtackincarpetimpalingy7320 3 года назад +23

    great script for this skit. very funny and satirical . It was a time when many people in the US were more open minded and sceptical of US foreign and domestic policy in the 1960s which became a worldwide revolution for change by 1968 . It was outrageous and terrible the Smothers Brothers got cancelled by CBS for being too critical and satirical in 1969 . The Smothers Brothers won a lawsuit against CBS for "breach of contract "

  • @mellow5123
    @mellow5123 3 года назад +37

    It just dawned on me that Gilda Radner got some of her schtick after this girl.

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 3 года назад +5

      This is a good 7 yrs before SNL

    • @dabneyoffermein595
      @dabneyoffermein595 3 года назад +1

      ahh, you might even be right on that. this girl had a hairline so low with that parted hair, looks so unreal, she almost looks like a manson girl

    • @lonstauder9861
      @lonstauder9861 3 года назад +1

      LOL, I think you are correct !

  • @purplecreamband
    @purplecreamband 3 года назад +20

    She's gorgeous happy to have discovered her she makes me smile even today

  • @the_lost_navigator
    @the_lost_navigator 3 года назад +15

    January 2021... and still quite relevant.

  • @clarencewalker3925
    @clarencewalker3925 3 года назад +17

    I was 13 y.o when she performed this sketch. It's still funny and, unfortunately, timely.

  • @walterschiller8281
    @walterschiller8281 Год назад +8

    We just lost our sense of humor. She is so good

  • @fab42355
    @fab42355 3 года назад +4

    I could binge watch the Smothers Brothers 👀👁🙃

  • @ultrasoundguy1
    @ultrasoundguy1 3 года назад +8

    RUclips, does this really need the Wikipedia "Climate change" link? That may be the funniest part of this.

  • @craigkdillon
    @craigkdillon 2 года назад +20

    Every word she said applies to today.
    Amazing.
    50 years
    And no real change.
    I am not sure if the gives me hope or despair.

    • @mortimerzilch2608
      @mortimerzilch2608 2 года назад

      twas the plan. they won. and have become Joe Biden's handlers.

    • @ceeemm1901
      @ceeemm1901 Год назад +1

      Little known fact...she had a long affair with Viscount Christopher Monckton before marrying Bjorn Lomborg. She taught them everything she knows.The "Boo Radley" gene has faithfully been past along like the Olympic Torch.

  • @RimfireRat
    @RimfireRat 4 года назад +25

    Ah HA she's the old grey haired lady protesting climate change you see on the streets today~Old Hippies never Die

    • @erestube
      @erestube 3 года назад +1

      Protesting climate change?

    • @johntrojan9653
      @johntrojan9653 3 года назад +1

      @@erestube Dig it Dude; it's ment as a double pun. Peace man ! ✌

  • @SteveAubrey1762
    @SteveAubrey1762 3 года назад +23

    Man, our generation was right on! Even more relevant today than in 1969!

    • @Zombie_Trooper
      @Zombie_Trooper 2 года назад +2

      Yes...but you guys still perpetuated the same problems lol

    • @ceeemm1901
      @ceeemm1901 Год назад

      Little known fact...she had a long affair with Viscount Christopher Monckton before marrying Bjorn Lomborg. She taught them everything she knows.The "Boo Radley" gene has faithfully been past along like the Olympic Torch.

  • @afreezaphorogiancossack2194
    @afreezaphorogiancossack2194 2 года назад +1

    LOL "bring along a soul brother sign" ... I had a buddy whose dad had a business in DC during the riots, he wrote "Soul Brother" in huge letters on his storefront.

  • @keepinganopenmind8216
    @keepinganopenmind8216 2 года назад +1

    I watching this for the second time.. first it was live now it's youtube and boy o boy has the weather gotten a lot worse.,., Wow ! Nailed it.. Leigh French !

  • @bearingcee
    @bearingcee Год назад +4

    My favorite is the flowerchild skit. She was phenomenal. I'm not sure what her actual name is? The hippie she portrayed was named Goldie. Lol, it's Leigh French. She is a phenomenal comedian

  • @t.d.bowman9585
    @t.d.bowman9585 3 года назад +18

    Proof that we never learn from history and it just keeps repeating

  • @kevincurtis6550
    @kevincurtis6550 3 года назад +3

    Leigh also starred in "Gomer Pyle" & "I Spy." Did quite a lot of on air work with Smothers Brothers (Share Tea With Goldie), movies & voice overs. She is 75 now & i don't know if she's still active or retired.

  • @oldestnerd
    @oldestnerd Год назад

    Less HATE and more HOPE. We could use that about 2023.

  • @jlovebirch
    @jlovebirch 3 года назад +6

    A great bit. How much longer do we have to wait before some network like TV Land reruns this ground-breaking series?

  • @Timinator62
    @Timinator62 11 месяцев назад +2

    Ya gotta love the RUclips "Context" Banner pushing the UN's Climate Change Agenda.

  • @kimhansen8720
    @kimhansen8720 3 года назад +3

    My senior year in high school, I loved this chick, was sorry to see Goldie take her place, never understood why the network censored them, L HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH CENSORSHIP< oh wait I just looked out the window "weeeerreeeeeee baaaaaaaaaaaaackkkkkkkk"

  • @paulhare662
    @paulhare662 3 года назад +11

    This wonderful comedy skit has become todays news broadcasts.

  • @chrisnurczyk8239
    @chrisnurczyk8239 3 года назад +6

    Odd, isn't it? The concerns of the 60's are still relevant now. Perhaps sad, too. Time to finally change some things.

    • @philmenzies2477
      @philmenzies2477 3 года назад +6

      Or perhaps nothing is different and everything you hear is just garbage repeated ad infinitum by uninformed people.

    • @natmanprime4295
      @natmanprime4295 3 года назад +3

      No it's not Odd it's just same agenda being pushed today by boomers etc

    • @ioodyssey3740
      @ioodyssey3740 3 года назад +2

      @@natmanprime4295 Lol .. pretty sure millenials are doing most of the pushing.

    • @natmanprime4295
      @natmanprime4295 3 года назад

      IO Odyssey take responsibility ya boomer...they're only doing it because of your dominance and influence throughout the 80s onwards...you guys are the worst

  • @SailorBarsoom
    @SailorBarsoom 7 лет назад +32

    I live in Texas, and I find that the problem of abnormal density remains. Some have even suggested that it might break Texas off from the rest of the country. And I'm about ready to help them pack.

    • @sylviapesek5193
      @sylviapesek5193 5 лет назад +2

      @Ianoodin - gee, another "genius" heard from, obviously ...

    • @bobmalack481
      @bobmalack481 3 года назад +2

      ..keep them Californian's out!..Dont mess with Texas.

    • @paulhare662
      @paulhare662 3 года назад +4

      You could just move to Chicago or Detroit where the enlightened democrats run things so very well.

  • @davidanderson_surrey_bc
    @davidanderson_surrey_bc Год назад

    About halfway through her "forecast", I could see how the overall national climate was going to look. What I DIDN'T see, though, was how a couple of simple tweaks to the prognosis could create such a radical change in the outcome. Well done!

  • @ilonabaier6042
    @ilonabaier6042 Год назад

    When I left the States 40 years ago I was living in Colorado. There was a big argument about serving wine at evening art exhibitions at a museum. It was forbidden and the museum wanted to be able to. When I visited again about 10 years ago, they were still serving wine was still not allowed and they were still arguing about it using the same arguments. No comment, I just report the news.

  • @BrodyMcCain
    @BrodyMcCain 2 года назад +2

    She is really a great actress.

  • @craigkdillon
    @craigkdillon 2 года назад +8

    Why she gives me hope --
    Things were the same 50 years ago,
    and we survived.
    Why she gives me despair --
    Things were the same 50 years ago,
    are we doomed to keep reliving the same hate & intolerance
    generation after generation???

  • @thumbtackincarpetimpalingy7320
    @thumbtackincarpetimpalingy7320 3 года назад +5

    Today's climate really needs a similar "hate" to "hope" change

  • @geezitshuge
    @geezitshuge 3 года назад +13

    She said the blacks were going to take over Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland. Man, was she dead on. The only thing that's changed is instead of s "Soul Brother" sign you need a "BLM" sign now.

  • @captainmoretokin2172
    @captainmoretokin2172 3 года назад +11

    its real muggy in the dc area too. due to the massive swamp . perhaps we should drain it.

  • @jimblack8027
    @jimblack8027 3 года назад +5

    A little off on some of the geography but dead on with the humour... :)

  • @Frst2nxt
    @Frst2nxt 3 года назад +2

    Did youtube cut the sound on this?

    • @MrWhoevr
      @MrWhoevr 3 года назад

      Audio is working now

  • @tankster5826
    @tankster5826 3 года назад +6

    This video in the 60’s didn’t have anything to do with climate change as that was not a concept back then. Someone put a spin on it with the title. It is a spoof on the climate of the country however. The difference between then and now is the intensity. It was rather quiet after the time period of this show for many years until 2008. This joke/comedy is similar to George Carlin’s Hippie Dippie Weatherman.

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 3 года назад +3

      Yup. Political satire disguised as weather

    • @timothymarkonis3630
      @timothymarkonis3630 2 года назад

      Quiet after the time period of this show???
      Wellll... I guess so, if you can ignore that little regional weather disturbance in Southeast Asia referred to by some of the older folks as the so-called Vietnam War.
      Protests in front of the White House in D. C.? Presidents secretly planning to incarcerate political and media dissenters in internment camps for exercising their First Amendment right of Free Speech?
      Naw! We didn't have nuthin' like that back in those halcyon Peace & Love groovy ol' hippie days.

    • @tankster5826
      @tankster5826 2 года назад

      Yes, and at least when hippies went to DC, Nixon showed up to talk to them and get their input at the Lincoln Memorial. Of course there were molotov cocktails thrown in Chicago etc. But it wasn’t ongoing long term. There wasn’t craziness every election. There were some haters but not like today. The hate could have been avoided towards the vets if the media would have explained why certain things were happening in Nam. Villagers were killed because many were guerilla warfare and working for the enemy. A soldier told me mothers would pull the pin on a grenade wrapped up with their baby and throw the baby to a soldier as they fled a village. The vets got a lot of hatred when they came home but the American people didn’t know what they had to deal with. They had no choice being drafted either. Many were forced to serve however they were ordered to serve.

    • @tankster5826
      @tankster5826 2 года назад

      @Timothy. Hatred wasn’t aimed at the general population. A lot was taken out on Nixon and vets returning home. America wasn’t used to guerilla warfare and average citizens didn’t know what the vets were dealing with. Most citizens were kind to one another. The temp sino now is different. The greed and narcissism wasn’t there in general population.

    • @craigwinters5724
      @craigwinters5724 7 месяцев назад

      You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Bob Dylan.@@rsprockets7846

  • @deathtrapbynapalm7861
    @deathtrapbynapalm7861 4 года назад +3

    They killed the sound

  • @mbernard8258
    @mbernard8258 Год назад +1

    So, no sound because of?

  • @miguelvega4844
    @miguelvega4844 Год назад +1

    Sound! Where's the SOUND???

  • @sallyrhodes5951
    @sallyrhodes5951 3 года назад

    Shame we can't get the sound on this

  • @johnroper4709
    @johnroper4709 Год назад

    Still no audio 😢😢

  • @jamesconraadtucker
    @jamesconraadtucker 3 года назад +4

    Some things never change. Here that D.C.?

  • @patrickdonegan9559
    @patrickdonegan9559 Год назад

    What a great message!

  • @TommySprocket
    @TommySprocket Год назад

    I;m guessing Gilda Radner must have been a fan of Leigh French the similarities are striking yet each one just had that great comedic timing.

  • @markg7030
    @markg7030 3 года назад

    I'm freaked out man!

  • @stevenk6638
    @stevenk6638 3 года назад +1

    No audio - HELLO ! !

  • @szolanek
    @szolanek Год назад

    That's skill. Reminds me of George.Carlin.

  • @raymondkitchen6137
    @raymondkitchen6137 2 года назад +1

    No audio?

  • @RussCR5187
    @RussCR5187 2 года назад +1

    Brilliant.

  • @moonled
    @moonled 3 года назад +1

    What happened to the sound?

  • @Cerph
    @Cerph 3 года назад

    She's a heroine- presenting this issue before it became popular.

  • @theprophetofputdowns8114
    @theprophetofputdowns8114 3 года назад

    Why is this video muted?

  • @aaron4wilkins
    @aaron4wilkins 3 года назад +1

    Theres no sound?

  • @jerylsmith2405
    @jerylsmith2405 3 года назад +1

    No sound!

  • @coolbreeze5561
    @coolbreeze5561 2 года назад

    No voice? Tried it twice my audio works except here

  • @in.hindsight
    @in.hindsight 3 года назад +8

    Brilliant but at the same time, sad.

  • @kanteannightmare
    @kanteannightmare Год назад

    RUclips putting context on a video that had nothing do with climate change is peak RUclips.

  • @sbritton1313
    @sbritton1313 3 года назад

    Is anybody else having audio problems?

  • @willyjoerockhead
    @willyjoerockhead Год назад +2

    Audio is off

    • @willyjoerockhead
      @willyjoerockhead 11 месяцев назад +1

      Actually this video on my phone the sound if off... but on my desktop computer it works.

  • @havocproltd
    @havocproltd 2 года назад +1

    wow! that was fun!

  • @mde6006
    @mde6006 2 года назад

    sound is weird and distorted for me... anyone else?
    can't even hear it.

  • @danstevenson6612
    @danstevenson6612 3 года назад

    No sound with this video March 2021

    • @kentclark6420
      @kentclark6420 3 года назад

      I have sound with it, just fine.

  • @StephenSternGoth
    @StephenSternGoth Год назад

    The audio makes me feel like I need to pop my ears or something

  • @annabouillon8797
    @annabouillon8797 Год назад +1

    Where's the sounds.

  • @SS-cv6lq
    @SS-cv6lq 2 года назад

    I think of all the kids that wouldn't get it.

  • @leswhite3524
    @leswhite3524 2 года назад

    Where's the audio?

  • @lamaar1776
    @lamaar1776 2 года назад

    Why did they mute it?

  • @muldrewdennis2837
    @muldrewdennis2837 3 года назад

    The Flower Child.

  • @darkoz1692
    @darkoz1692 2 года назад

    The more things change, the more they stay the same

  • @HairHoFla
    @HairHoFla 4 года назад +2

    No volume

  • @bikerdog5554
    @bikerdog5554 3 года назад +1

    No sound!!???

  • @stevenk6638
    @stevenk6638 3 года назад +1

    No audio ! !

  • @TerryYelmene
    @TerryYelmene Год назад

    Wow,...how is it possible that this little 50-year-old skit could sum up EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE!

    • @kanteannightmare
      @kanteannightmare Год назад +2

      Because it never changes, politicians want you to think it's been different so you think the cause isn't them...

  • @MrRockstar1968
    @MrRockstar1968 Год назад

    Classic, love it.

  • @mfb3042
    @mfb3042 2 года назад

    Sound not working.

  • @pkicng210
    @pkicng210 3 года назад

    Who would have thought that Cannabis (weed) would be legal.

  • @ADAMSIXTIES
    @ADAMSIXTIES 3 года назад +3

    We did it! We changed Hate to Hope again! Airdate 420.

  • @TacShooter
    @TacShooter 3 года назад +1

    Didn't Goldie Hawn have a very similar act on Laugh In?

    • @bob_._.
      @bob_._. 3 года назад +1

      I don't think so... Goldie pretty much always played the ditsy blond on Laugh-In. Leigh's character may have been floating a bit but really wasn't a ditz.

    • @TacShooter
      @TacShooter 3 года назад

      @@bob_._. She did. Here's one of them... ruclips.net/video/2_1JEwKJUy0/видео.html

  • @timhofstetter5654
    @timhofstetter5654 Год назад

    Yeah, Hippie Chick! 8)

  • @pegbutwin7189
    @pegbutwin7189 4 года назад

    Truth!!!!

  • @pippishortstocking7913
    @pippishortstocking7913 Год назад

    Put the audio back on!!!

  • @artneville5994
    @artneville5994 10 месяцев назад

    No sound???

  • @NotSure109
    @NotSure109 3 года назад +7

    Little did the people behind this show imagine, their ideological descendants would displace DC as the drivers of such awful climatic conditions as those they lamented in this sketch.

    • @oughtssought1198
      @oughtssought1198 2 года назад +2

      what a ridiculously pretentious fantasy

    • @NotSure109
      @NotSure109 2 года назад +2

      @@oughtssought1198 There's nothing pretentious or fantastical about what I wrote.

  • @joenorsworthy
    @joenorsworthy Год назад

    RUclips put a context warning on this video.

    • @plantfeeder6677
      @plantfeeder6677 11 месяцев назад

      And apparently killed the audio

    • @willyjoerockhead
      @willyjoerockhead 11 месяцев назад

      @@plantfeeder6677 ...on my cell phone the sound is off but, on my desk top computer the sound works.

  • @dariowiter3078
    @dariowiter3078 4 года назад +2

    Oh brother! Even if Indian smoke signals were used for this sketch, a three-year-old could have easily understood it!(funny sketch, though!) 😁😁😁😁😁

  • @GregNickoloff
    @GregNickoloff Год назад

    The more things change....

  • @bigred8438
    @bigred8438 3 года назад +1

    No sound.

  • @MrSunlander
    @MrSunlander Год назад

    We knew back then.....

  • @Lester-Paul
    @Lester-Paul 3 года назад

    We could use her right now.

  • @liraloo
    @liraloo Год назад

    Can only watch. No audio.

  • @johnroper4709
    @johnroper4709 Год назад

    Major Shame No Audio😢

  • @jamesallen7093
    @jamesallen7093 Год назад

    That's hippie chick !

  • @nickzee7723
    @nickzee7723 3 года назад

    True again today

  • @frankkauhi3759
    @frankkauhi3759 Год назад

    NO SOUND !!

  • @cernstormrunner7263
    @cernstormrunner7263 3 года назад

    is this what inspired Lex Luthor's plan?