Thanks for the Mel Brooks ping. Here’s a Laurel....and Hardy handshake.
I been trying to catch up on everything since post-surgery (a week ago tomorrow). Don’t recall where I saw the link or clip, but I just now found information about the original.
“A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, NOT A DEMOCRACY”
The Dan Smoot Report
Vol. 12 No. 16
(Broadcast 556)
April 18, 1966
https://archive.org/details/Dan-Smoot-Report-1960s/dan-smoot-report-556-a-constitutional-republic-not-a-democracy/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater
In case it wasn’t here that I saw the video link, below is another one:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ol6EzqvdHcGQ/
According to a biographical reference (source ? - fuzzy brain), Smoot was an FBI agent and a “conservative political activist” who wrote about communist infiltration in the U.S. and government.