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Dick Cavett

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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.


— Dick Cavett


#dentistry #doing #finances #handling #knows

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.


— Dick Cavett


#administration #come #cops #eye #just

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.


— Dick Cavett


#head #how #know #people #something

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?


— Dick Cavett


#comedy #does #much #streets #television

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.


— Dick Cavett


#label #me #misunderstanding

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.


— Dick Cavett


#crap #dispense #financially #long #people

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.


— Dick Cavett


#brilliantly #club #comedy #comedy club #comic






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and Etta Mae Richards. In his capacity as talent coordinator for The Tonight Show Cavett was sent to the Blue Angel nightclub to see Woody Allen's act and immediately afterward struck up a friendship. Before leaving for college he worked as a caddy at the Lincoln Country Club.

In recent years Cavett has written a blog for the New York Times promoted DVDs of his former shows and hosted replays of his classic TV interviews with Groucho Marx Katharine Hepburn Marlon Brando and others on Turner Classic Movies channel. Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (/ˈkævɨt/; born November 19 1936) is a former American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues.

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