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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

Dick Cavett

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Dirty Food Letter Mindset Word
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Day Device Myself Sick
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Audience Different Myself Reaction Surprise Thinking
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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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.
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Head Inflection Trick Word Writing Yourself
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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Advice Best Conversation Interview Myself Talk
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report

I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

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