Older brother of Dick Smothers .Children: Bo (b. 1993) and Riley Rose (b. 1996).Owns Remick Ridge Vineyards in Kenwood, California.Tom and his brother, Dick, were born on Governor's Island in New York Harbor. Their father, who was stationed on the military base on that island, moved his pregnant wife there to be close to him.Tom has a son Thomas IV by his first marriage.On one of their "Smothers Brothers" television shows, Tom Smothers unintentionally sparked a firestorm of controversy when he innocently said as a joke, "Easter is when Jesus comes out of his tomb, and if he sees his shadow he goes back in and we get six more weeks of winter."Is a member of the fraternity Phi Sigma Kappa.Attended San Jose State University in California.His father Major Thomas Bolyn Smothers, Jr. was a West Point Graduate. He survived the Bataan Death March, and died on a Japanese POW ship. He was buried at sea.Graduated from Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, California in 1955.He is an expert with the Yo-Yo.