Скачать или смотреть 11Feb2000 Comedy Arts Festival: Tommy & Dick Smothers, Steve Martin, Mason Williams and Bob Einstein

An archival video recording of a seminar at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Videotaped on February 11, 2000 at the Red Brick Arts & Recreation Center.

Speakers: Tommy and Dick Smothers, Steve Martin, Mason Williams and Bob Einstein talk about working on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 1967-1969.

Asked about the tribute, Dick Smothers (then age 61), deadpans: "It's not that we're almost dead, but they're honoring us before we lose our memory."

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Comedy Festival, formerly known as the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, was a comedy festival that ran from 1995 to 2008. The festival included stand-up comedy performances, appearances by the casts of television shows, and has a film component called the Film Discovery Program.

History:
The first 13 editions of the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival were held annually at the Wheeler Opera House and other venues in Aspen, Colorado. The primary sponsor of the festival was HBO, with co-sponsorship by Caesars Palace (the primary venue), TBS, GEICO Insurance, Twix candy bars and Smirnoff Vodka. In-between, HBO had started a spin-off version simply named The Comedy Festival, which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 2006, in collaboration with the Anschutz Entertainment Group.

The Aspen event folded in 2007 once HBO exited the festival business, considering the expenditures too high. American comedian Chris Fleming performed at the 2007 event.

TBS picked up the Las Vegas event in 2008, and organized a follow-up edition that year, also arranging for other comedy festivals in collaboration with Just for Laughs. In turn, Aspen replaced the festival with similar events, the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival and the Aspen Laff Festival.

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