re: #182 wheat-dogg

American media companies have less tolerance for anarchic comedy than the Brits do. Also, R&M and the Smothers Brothers delved into pretty sharp political humor during a contentious time of American history.

I was too young to really take advantage of the free-wheeling 1960s. I could only be a spectator.

I likewise. I enjoyed Mad Men, because it was about the decade I grew up in. Another movie whose nostalgia appealed to me was Inherent Vice (although not a great film in and of itself).
But I started becoming aware of the world around me in around 1969, and that was when I noticed how the Summer of Love had run its course, Altamont was going on, Nixon’s Operation Intercept was shutting down marijuana smuggling, and dealers were switching to heroin, which was easier to smuggle and more profitable.
I remember watching the bright, happy, colorful hippy scene start to turn into something very dark, violent and ugly.