I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
DICK CAVETTI have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
DICK CAVETTI would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
DICK CAVETTThe 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 CAVETTIt was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
DICK CAVETTThe sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
DICK CAVETTEvery writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
DICK CAVETTJapanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
DICK CAVETTChris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
DICK CAVETTIn the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
DICK CAVETTMy IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
DICK CAVETTHome schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
DICK CAVETTBy the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
DICK CAVETTYou have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
DICK CAVETTI live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
DICK CAVETTI get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
DICK CAVETTPerhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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