Comedian Tom Smothers, One-Half of the Smothers Brothers, Dies at 86

Comedian Tom Smothers, One-Half of the Smothers Brothers, Dies at 86
Tom Smothers does yo-yo tricks during arrivals at CBS's 75th anniversary celebration in New York on Nov. 2, 2003. (Louis Lanzano/AP Photo)

Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers, has died at 86.

The National Comedy Center, on behalf of his family, said in a statement Wednesday that Mr. Smothers died Tuesday at home in Santa Rosa, California, following a cancer battle.

“I’m just devastated,” his brother and the duo’s other half, Dick Smothers, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. “Every breath I’ve taken, my brother’s been around.”

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