As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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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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Great humorists are great insulters.
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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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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