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The Smothers Brothers turns a waiting room into a drum session

The official channel's only new upload finds impatient visitors making music with briefcases, chairs and their own knees.

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They just need a third 🪇 #smothersbrothers #classictv #classiccomedy

Mr. Harris has been told to wait until Mr. Simpson can see him. His briefcase soon becomes a percussion instrument, and the man already seated beside him has an answer ready on his thighs.

The Smothers Brothers posted just one video this week: "They just need a third 🪇 #smothersbrothers #classictv #classiccomedy," a vintage Comedy Hour sketch that has reached roughly 219,000 views. What starts as nervous tapping becomes an elaborate exchange of rhythms. Harris turns his chair around to play its wooden seat; even the returning office assistant briefly dances to the beat. The waiting room has acquired its own house band.

Viewers are making connections of their own. One compares it to dueling banjos, another remembers practicing drums on the dining-room table, and someone recalls seeing the sketch during its original prime-time run. Others are trying to identify the ensemble, a reminder that an archive can bring back a performance without bringing back every credit.

The new clip accounts for most of the channel's daily viewing right now, far beyond the activity around "Tommy's acting skills need fine tuning 📺 #smothersbrothers #classictv #classiccomedy" and its best-of compilation. Daily views across the channel are running above their usual level, although the subscriber count stayed unchanged over the week.

For this archive, the week's attraction is unusually simple: no elaborate setup, just two waiting visitors discovering that almost everything within reach can keep time.

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What viewers say

All those years of practicing drums on the dining room table paid off! 😁
@serpentines6356See it on YouTube
I actually saw this in prime time 58yrs ago.
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New twist on duelling banjos
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Were they an established comedy troop doing a guest spot on the Smothers Brothers? Peter Bonerz is quite recognizable, and so is his primary scene partner, does anyone know his name, or the woman or the last man? And if it was a troupe, what the name of that was?
@Brad4EllisSee it on YouTube
Awesome drumming
@gabepennSee it on YouTube
Loved this! Simple, enjoyable, funny.
@peterddb1593See it on YouTube
That’s some good drumming
@ritabosnich9974See it on YouTube
Second guy killed me with that look...😂😂😂..
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