Lester Maddox Storms Off The Show | The Dick Cavett Show
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Governor Lester Maddox walks off in this iconic moment from The Dick Cavett Show.
Date aired - 18 December 1970 - Lester Maddox
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
#thedickcavettshow
These older shows r so much better than these new fake ones
Agreed young queen!
You are beautiful 😘
Dude... that’s thirsty
Your kids will say how good the shows were in 2019.
Couldn't agree more!
"If I called any of your admirers 'bigots', who are NOT 'bigots', I apologize."
I am CRYING 😂🤣😂😭😭😭
that was a (BAR) lol
@@michaelfedak2144 You guys are hilarious.
@@michaelfedak2144 You’re literally siding with a man who called himself a segregationist. You’re ridiculous.
@@robertjones8260 He knows very well who he's siding with. Let him die on his hill if he likes the altitude so much.
@Michael Fedak An actual debate is judged on the content of what is being said, and not in interrupting other debaters or being loud. If you live under a rock and you watched the video, it's so easy to side with Lester because of his voice and conviction, plus you rarely hear the others speak. Is there any merit to his beliefs? Sure. Is his beliefs right? No. Is what he is saying bullshit? Those who know the actual facts are the only ones who can tell.
Lester Maddox is very similar to people who say "all lives matter", he actually says it during the full interview. To those people, saying "all lives matter" isn't racist because they see it as including "all lives". But, this very argument has been used time and time again to silence minority voices. Lester does it in the interview to Jim Brown. It has never been actually used to argue equality among all life. All lives only matter when black lives start to matter.
If winning a debate means silencing or disregarding all other voices, then yes he did win the debate. If we stick to an actual definition of a debate, there wasn't a debate here. Just a rant by one man named Lester Maddox.
@@michaelfedak2144 what’s a race hustler when they’re at home 😂 At the end of the day Dick made a clever or genuine mistake in repeating the question and substituting bigots for admirers but Lester simply saw the opportunity to focus on that so he could play the victim rather than answer the question. He wasn’t offended by it as he knew it was true. He clearly knew that if he followed his tac of suggesting he was not a racist he’d have to acknowledge there were white bigots in Georgia and that would have upset a huge population of his admirers...who were bigots 😂
I love Jim Brown's delighted laughter. He is sincerely entertained and isn't bothering to hide it.
Didn't he play Spearchucker in MASH? Yes, he was enjoying it.
And Mr. Capote as well!
@@satireofcircumstance6458 very funny how your profile name is “the less deceived” yet you made such an assumption. As if Jim Brown was being more aggressive than the man literally yelling right beside him. The. Irony.
@@satireofcircumstance6458 at least we know what side you would have been on 😂
@@ruthjeffery2539 I don't think it was Jim Brown who played Spearchucker Jones in the movie.
I love the randomness of the guests on this show😂. U have a pro-segregation Governor, a Hall of Fame NFL player, and a book author meditating and talking to himself in the other corner. Man this show is awesome🤣
Maddox wasn't a segregationist. In fact he was opposed to segregation.
@@dualfluidreactor what do you mean? Lmao he was always a segregationist democrat
Just like life.
@@TheLucastimm Dixiecrat is the term you're looking for.
I wondered who the other guy was on the stage.
imagine having genuine, serious discourse and conflict like this on talk shows today. we need another host like Dick
Agreed as well as Phil Donahue
Too many dicks on TV these days already
Better than today for sure but still left leaning.
Not too mention the general population as a whole...
they would just publicly shame the guy for disagreeing with them on tv today...dick knew how to let them just make a fool of themselves instead 😂
Fallon and Kimmel would pull out cards and make them play a game.
@calvin shimoli No they just aren't funny, Im not a Trump guy and can objectively say their jokes are dead.
@calvin shimoli Lmaoo he the least funny out of any of the late night hosts(maybe Samantha B is equally worse). You can tell he was a diversity hire, #makelatenightgreatagain. Not a Trump guy, but these late night show hosts are remarkable unfunny.
Yes the two Jimmy's don't stand up to Cavett and Carson. Their shows consist of dumbed down casual talk and unfunny skits. Whereas Carson mixed intelligent chat with sharp humour. And I'm not a jaded old dog I'm in my 30s. Also Conan is a standardbearer for Carson and Letterman.
Fallon and Kimmel are two of the worst talk show hosts ever.
@ Jonathan Or a game of beer pong.
The older chat shows are far superior because, unlike today, they didn’t tend to throw softball questions or try and crawl up their guests arses.
Mike Hall: Not really true, Cavett was an exception to the rule
This is why RUclips and podcasts are better than actual TV
Theyre great cause you never know when a fights coming 😂 they all try and act so proper until they feel the need to fight.
This is so accurate - not sure why I laughed so hard though lol.
Joe Battiloro Yup, the majority of the main stream media has been proven to be blatant liars that are pushing the racial divides, as well as a lack of freedom of speech. Political Correctness is a tool to destroy freedom and control the people and their opinions.
This is what you call a “REAL” reality show💯
“If I called any of your admirers bigots, who are not bigots, I apologize.” Legendary!!! Cavett is a boss
SCTV's Cavett best Cavetttttttttttt!
Jeremy Adams This response of his had me rolling! Waaaayyyy too smooth of a comeback!
He the goat
what did he mean by that?
RehanSiddique That they are bigots lol
"If I called any of your admirers bigots that are not bigots I apologize."
Ha! That was classic!
Shalom
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is the type of person the Lestor was, he was as racist as they come . ruclips.net/video/sHNR5GRKCqg/видео.html
I don't get how that line was so bad lol am I not understanding?
The look on Maddox' face was 😒😒
"Now wait a minute, I'll take you half seriously on this" 😭
which was a lot of credit on Dicks part. when you're deal with an obvious bad actor (or as we used to call them, bullshit artist) it's especially hard to take them at face value and not just make them swallow their teeth.
Maddox found a way to evade answering the question by creating confusion. These people are the masters of tricknology. Nothing has changed. It’s how they stay ahead of their own game.
Understand that Maddox was walking a political tightrope in The South at the time. He wasn't really anti Black..He was a bit like Wallace in Alabama. He was out for the working class irrespective of race. He was a lot more principled and decent than the Republicans in The South now.
@@heiltd1286I don't agree. Maddox acted here like the crude bully he always was. Today one mostly sees this kind of bullying tactics from left wing Governors.
A masterclass
@@heiltd1286 Nah, I'm good
@@Steveross2851 TRUMP 2020! NOT!
A bully is nothing more than a coward with power
Amen!
Spot on there.
Not all bullies have power. For the most part. people are bullies because they feel powerless. I am a psychologist my friend and the outer surface almost always betrays what is occurring beneath the surface.
You are so right
like donald
"If I called any of your admirers bigots who are not bigots, then I apologize" 😭I love the way he responded to that
@S whatever it was it made me laugh😂...I dont really care about the politics behind it, but the joke was funny and he was speakin facts
@S But... the people who supported him were against racial integration... that’s literally racist. The guy called anti-Jim Crow activists from the north bigots for trying to fight genuine discrimination. Is that not racist somehow?
Theres a whole song about this interview
@@mical7430 ooouuu, really...do you know the name of it, it's ok if you dont though😊
Some day when someone calls you or your loved one an insulting name, I hope that's the same lame apology you get.
I like the smerk on Jim Brown's face. He's loving this too much.
Gained a lot of respect for Jim Brown watching this and other video of him on Cavett show!
Smirk.
@@K131399 go CSA!!!!
People like to call others names and get away with it. Then smirk. Jerks
@@selap8682
Yep. He started the whole thing.
That Dick Cavett dude showed an emotional intelligence and a intellectual honesty that is a marvel to behold. All the while remaining genuinely humble and engaged. Good on you man.
You posses something I want to develop. It’s for me the height of intelligence
One of the most striking aspects of the interview is that Maddox actually expected people to believe that blacks and whites in Georgia in 1970 lived and worked on a level playing field - unbelievable.
Delusion makes you believe silly things.
@@purepit4ever1200 I'm not sure if it was ever a genuine assumption or just a pathetic lie by Maddox to excuse segregation, and to somehow make it sound civilised. After all, no sane person would say that Black people have full equality with whites today, never mind in 1970!
Same denial they still have now that's stopping any change from coming through.
@@Arthur_Pint today black people have LEGAL equality; however, full social equality is impossible since will always be racist people and as long as those people exist complete social equality will always be impossible. As for equality of opportunity, I think that's mainly dependent on location and your family and social status, but race can sometimes have to do with not having equality of opportunity. Equality of outcome shouldn't exist for anybody because the outcome should mainly be dependent on the person.
In 1970, African-American 's in the South had no equality since 5 years prior they couldn't even eat in the same restaurant as a white person. And in the north, though it was closer to today, there where still issues pertaining to race. Glad that we've gotten as close to racial equality as we have, but socially there might be more to do.
@@joshuapittman4663 You make some very good points. Yes, the challenge now is for legal equality for black people to to translate to defacto equality in American society. Of course at the time of writing this comment, America is in the throws of a rigorous self-evaluation of Black equality in matters pertaining to policing, voting and other areas. That said, I would agree that overcoming those who hold racist attitudes (such the Maddoxs of this world) is still the greatest obstacle to full Black equality.
"If I called any of followers bigots that are not bigots, I apologize."
That was good
That was GREAT. 👏👍
Actually no it isn't great . It's denying that he intentionally insulted those who supported Lester Maddox by calling them bigots. He won't admit that that is exactly what he intended. Cavett is a big liar and a phony; a little talentless man trying to be New York City cool.
@Tim Warner *found the bigot*
@@davidec.4021 It doesn't take much when an ass like Cavett is so blatent!
He was miles ahead of the old man intellectually. I think that statement went over his head.
This clip shows what made Dick such a legendary host. His ability to be so reasonable and accommodating, yet totally excoriating of a fundamentally indefensible set of beliefs is really something to behold.
Love Dick's sense of humor and smiles. Would have been a great person to take to lunch.
He used to write jokes for Groucho Marx. Imagine how funny that lunch would be… my god.
He ‘s still alive, so go ahead and invite him!
These are the kind of talk shows we need today.
I agree with you poco9964 instead what we have today is social media and shorts the new generation has yet to prove they have substance thank god I’m an old fart! I don’t want to live long enough to see the disintegration of intelligence in society but unfortunately it’s already happening
Now we have Jimmy Fallon with his Games, Games, Games
Yes it would be so nice to see someone call out the hypocrisy of any dumb conservative governor
I watch Cavett reruns every night on Decades.
@@SOUTHAFRICANKNIFEGUY Cavett reruns are on Decades every night
"How much time do I have?" Jim Brown is so funny man
Dafty this whole interview Jim brown just knew this man was beyond reasoning with. He was just there to laugh at racists
@@HaziboReviews funny comment
Hazibo has come
A patient one at that :)
Lestor Maddox was a DEMOCRAT Black People WAKE UP!!!!!!!
it’s 6am & I’m enjoying every minute of this tantrum 🤣
🤣🤣 the governor cracks me up !! I watch this video annually
Guess what??? 3 days later.... it's 6am again!
every minute
It’s almost 4🤣🤣🤣
Yep
Jim Brown R.I.P. One of the all-time greats.
A real G.O.A.T
👍👍👍
Making people uncomfortable is sometimes a good thing.
Can't expect change without it.
Race baiting isn't good. It's very exploitive . You can't say dont judge a man by his skin color then bring it up every 5 minutes.
Fair assessment, however you have to get to that point before you can do addressing it. If you ignore a problem it persists.
@Chris Russell Dishonest.
Skydv2005 Sorry Skydiver but it has been there for thousands of years and will persist to eternity...question is who are you going to protect when it gets physical
Cavett is cooler than drinking a milkshake in a snowstorm.
Cooler den a king-sized igloo
And I'm harder then a diamond in an icestorm
Should I read Cavett’s books and online short stories about the clinical depression from which he suffered? It is hardly an issue during this video from December of 1970.
Kelloggs, every intelligent person goes through depression if they make it far enough into life...
Cool metaphor.
"If I have unconsciously offended anyone then there's no need to apologize because it was an accident"
How things have changed...
Kuriboh they Changed by design
This is what this guy took from this interview *facepalm*
Kella Kell let’s see how many public apologies we get this year.
Apologize for your micro aggression, Dick! Doesn’t matter if you were aware or not. I was highly offended 50 years later. You owe me an apology or you’ll go home in an ambulance!
@@nicholasbullock1709 got a little aggression going on there, yourself..the ambulance remark is a dead giveaway
I only discovered Dick Cavett here on RUclips. From everything I’ve seen of him, he was a superb interviewer and very impressive man.
Watch his interviews with Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor lol
I love the fact, this whole show he’s said things to bait Mr. Brown into reacting, it’s him that loses his composure & storms off the show!!
Yeah that's what a narcissist does, just sayin.
That’s right! 😂
well Mr. Brown knew how he would have been portrayed had he acted half the child Maddox did.
The baiter becomes the baited. It was hilarious when he demanded Mr brown to APOLOGIZE too for laughing.
Bullshit
“If I called any of your admirers bigots who aren’t bigots, I apologize”. Damn-brilliant take down of a bigot. 👍👏🏻👍👏🏻👍👏🏻👍👏🏻👍👏🏻👍
@Francis York wow....
Francis York lmao you support Maddox huh. Haha just keep insulting the “soyboys” and see how serious everyone else will take you
drott150 tf does that have to do with this. Do you not agree that Maddox is a bigot?
How I wish Toni Morrison were sitting next to him. She would have given him quite an education in the most eloquent way.
Why is he a bigot? Or you just parroting some guy you seen on tv?
"If I called any of your admirers 'bigots' who aren't bigots, I apologize."
Burnnnnn.
@Francis York I'm loving how you're directly implying that because Mr. Man Bun is anti-bigotry, he must be a liberal... What does that say about your view of conservatism?
You kind of just burned yourself more than Cavett burned Maddox.
@Francis York Projection much? I don't feel like a victim at all. I was just laughing at your comment because of what you implied in it. But I do see a lot of 1st world problem snowflakes whining about how they cant say the n word anymore like the world has ended. That's an actual victim complex. Maybe you have me confused with them?
Also you're telling me that a guy who famously kicked black people out of his restaurant, closed his restaurant rather than accept pro-integration laws, and then ran for office as a segregationist... he isn't a bigot?
I mean we're not even talking about a contemporary figure here. This is a guy who is long dead, and lived throughout the civil rights movement on the segregationist side. It's ok to admit that pro-segregationists are bigoted you know... That's not a "libtard" thing to say. That's just bipartisan common sense.
@Francis York I said do you have me confused with "them." As in... people who are not necessarily you.
I was giving you an example of people who DO actually have a victim complex. You said I have a victim complex when I don't... I'm not even black.
And if you are taking offence to that comment about those snowflakes, that just tells me one thing... it exposes that you believe yourself to be in that camp if you're taking offence to the comment subconsciously. So again, you're kind of owning yourself...
Francis York it’s hard for you people to acknowledge that historically and modernly we are the victims and even then we are still the 10th richest nation in the world(black America). Y’all be so mad when we state the facts about systemic racism go pick up a book.
If you guys don't give each other a deep embrace, I'm going to delete this thread.
Look how the hosts used to speak and ask questions. The poise. The language. The grace. Honestly this is the way all of us should speak and behave with one another. How did we lose this?
FOX NEWS
Smartphones and cultural illiteracy
Democrats
@dyslexicbatnam1350
You mean democrats in red states?
We lost it mainly because of the dumbing down of this Country. As George Carlin once said, "there's a lot of stupid MF's out there."
A super underrated part of this is Jim Brown saying "How much time do I have?"
JB knew he didn't need to lift a finger. He was taking Napoleon's advice: _Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake._
"What we have here, is failure to communicate."
Lol
Cool Hand Luke
What we've got here is... failure to communicate.
Gary Edwards Some men you just can’t reach
@@zgs12212012 Immma Reach you BRooo
I can see Jim Brown & Cavett having a drink & a laugh in the green room directly after this.
@benicecunt o.k. Sometimes people can come together over a common enemy.
I really hope they did that would be so good
Unfortunately Cavett did not mix with blacks in real life and actually had a black butler and maid who he beat with a bull whip on a regular basis !
Yeah it was a set up and soohomoric!
AND where is all your information to back this up?
I was a freshman in high school when we heard that Lester Maddox had walked off the Dick Cavett Show. I stayed up to watch it, and was thus sleep deprived the next day when I walked into World History. My teacher, Mr. Oshel, asked if anyone happened to see it, and the two of us spent the first half hour of class talking about it, while I quoted the best lines. Good old Dick Cavett. He got me out of most of what was surely a boring class lecture since Mr. Oshel was not a good teacher. I'm sure that everyone else in class was as bored with our discussion as I would have been with his lecture, but I remember it as great fun.
beautiful memory
I believe that was Truman Capi sitting there on the other side. I’m kind of surprised even weigh in.
All I hear is, “Is you is, or is you ain’t my constituents?”
🤣🤣🤣 "oh brother where art thou"
Underrated comment XD
These boys done desecrated a firery cross!
I wonder if that governor was a member of a, "Certain secret society."
haha that made me laugh so hard, excellent.
"wait a minute, wait a minute! There's more time!" 😂😂😂
They never let a show like this on tv today!!!!!! This is jus raw!!!!!!
No he would get his ass kicked
Anytime we hear the president talk we hear this & watch fox news they say things like this all the time, they just do it with a smile.
Yes they will bro but it's on RUclips now and social media.
@@crewshaw2122 😂😂😂especially in south la
Bro its pretty much the same as whats going on now. Its scary how much we haven't learned as a people all this time. The governer is pretty much saying "ALL lives matter" and Jim Brown is saying "BLACK lives matter".
That substantive conversation gets sidetracked by the governors own emotions and the baiting of the host. Jim Brown and the governor would eventually realize they were saying the same thing if they had actually finished that conversation.
Same thing in principle as today. I support Trump because I can see his overall agenda which is the greater good of ALL of America, not any single parts of it. So does Jim Brown ironically, as he was in the White House with Kanye. But two things cause a problem in today's conversation:
1. the media that purposely misleads to keep people divided(same like this host dictated the audience's reaction in this video); and
2. Trumps own emotions at times, which is his greatest strength and weakness.
Crazy.
Never missed Dick Cavett's show. Always a no-nonsense, direct host. I attended high school with one of his cousins. You could tell they were related. Even had the same kind, calming manner.
Thank you Revisionist History for turning me on to this. So interesting. Some of best TV I've ever seen.
Man fr tho and to think it was no it your face 24 7 think of how glued to the tv you would be
So many ways to analyse this. He actually raised more questions than he answered
@@dangerouslytalented who?
y tho? Malcolm gladwell from Revisionist History
David DiMuzio lol Revisionist History brought me here too
Lester Maddox, Jim brown ,Truman Capote, now that's an interesting panel of guests
And they were all born in the deep south.
Mark Withers
Who was Jim Brown and Truman Capote? What was so special about them?
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Jim brown is a hall of fame football player and Truman Capote was a famous film director
@@markwithers9468, Capote was a writer by trade and, a celebrity guest for over 25 years..... He was noted for his wit, mannerisms, and his keen ability to be a celebrity while being perpetually lazy...... He was Harper Lee's Dill Harris and, like Dill, he hid behind another name and, persona that included being openly gay, part time drug addict and full intoxicant..... Look up Jim Brown's tribute to white men who provided him inspiration, leadership and guidance while growing up with limited parental, male influence..... Lester was a Dixiecrat and the final wave of his time; much in the fashion of Senator Robert Byrd but, did not leave the coup. And, yes, what a wild line of people for any show......
@@markwithers9468 Jim Brown is up there with the greatest of the greats. Big actor too. Like Jim Thorpe, he excelled in several other sports, basketball, baseball, lacrosse, etc. Capote wrote In Cold Blood which turned into a new genre of narrative non-fiction.
Truman Capote's childlike glee at Maddox's self destruction is my favorite part of this.
he was a fucking weirdo... childlike glee....LOL!!!!!!
THANK YOU! i had vapor lock on who that was so went to comments for enlightenment!
Oh that was him lol alright!
I would enjoy knowing what Capote said of this.
The decades that have past since this show aired leaves one thing to be said: Some things never change.
More than three bro!
Having white people and black people fight each other so they don't fight the rich..
Actually they have changed...
drastically for the worse.
The voters of GA are still morons? To be fair, that applies to nearly every American voter.
Truman Capote over there looking like he is about to be peaking on some LSD
Haha. He looked to be both engaged and super disconnected simultaneously.
That's absurd. He's obviously on coke.
So that was Truman Capote
Caleb nailed it! Capote's all Chachi haha
God bless him.
Lester to Dick: “You’ve got one minute to apologize.”
Jim Brown: “How long do I have?”
Crying hahahahahahahahahahaa
That was hilarious
That part was the most funniest part in this video I was crying laughing....🤣🤣😂😂
That apology is still on “hold”” , but Jim is still around and not gonna apologize 😅😂
He said half a minute and Jim didn't say anything though lol
@@asdknjakljye because that's exactly what he expected Maddox to say
Dick Cavett handles this so well. He doesn't get smarmy, doesn't try to get cheap laughs from the crowd, he accepts that he misspoke and tries to calmly resolve it and keep his guest on the show. Truly admirable.
No...he was yanking the bass out of the water to let him suffocate a little....lowered him back in the water briefly to give him the impression he could breathe freely...then yanked him back out to let him suffocate some more! All the the while he had Maddox with the hook embedded in his jaw....SAVAGE!
He was being smarmy and condescending.
Admittedly the governor was being unreasonable. But Dick knew what he was doing and he knew what he said. Hence why the condescending non-apology.
But he did actually apologize the last time and the governor was just being unreasonable.
@@buckshotcheney1252 the last "apology" wasn't apology in the truest sense at all...but I do concur that Cavett knew EXACTLY what he was doing. What I admire most is that he did not bow to the so called governor.
@@lintonmcdonaldjr.7884 Of course it wasn't a "real" apology. No person with common sense would make a such a forced apologize to an ignorant and racist crybaby who doesn't who refused the answer the only interesting question he got asked by Brown: what did he do against his white bigots when who were angry of the black representation in the government?
@@lintonmcdonaldjr.7884 Omg do you actually think that way about fishing??
I love how Dick regained control of the situation.
7:30 Dick made a dick of himself. Good on the guy who walked out, when Mr. Cavett refused to properly apologize.
That roar from the crowd at 4:39 got under Lester's skin, and Jim knew it🤣
the crowd were a bunch of elitist creeps Lenny Bruce would have destroyed them
It is frustrating to me that Cavett doesn’t get mentioned alongside the likes of Carson. Less often laugh-out-loud funny, but brilliant. Consistently, incisively brilliant.
Well it would be inappropriate to mention him alongside Carson etc because what he does is on a higher level. No insult to those entertainers, of course, but that's simply not what Cavett does.
@@Daniel-Strain well said ❤️
because he was an utter bore.... nothing frustrating about it.
Agree. Dick Cavett was extraordinary.
Because Carson kept it light and simple. The media likes and prefers it that way. I prefer Cavett-- he mixes it up and allows deep, stimulating conversations to be held.
He was deflecting. Didn’t want to answer Jim Browns question
That guy did more for black people than many others but they still treated him like that.
@@ivangartenhaus4276 cause they were told to. Brainwashed by those who want to manipulate them, into thinking that those who want to help them, are the boogie men who are out to get them.
Technically that's the same thing
He was wearing out his strawman.
He did answer it. He looked at him and said "Yes, white bigots and black bigots."
It's funny the things people choose to hear or not to hear.
The funniest moment out of this whole interview was at 6:27 where you can see Truman Capote on the verge of a complete meltdown as he babbles to himself quietly next to Dick.
Camera didn’t know where to focus for a moment 😂
I think you might be reading too much into that. The way I saw it is that he was counting off the "minute" that Maddox had just given Cavett to respond. Capote could appear to be in another world sometimes, until you realized he was just on to something you weren't at all aware of.
@@j.criquette3334 Capote was a very strange man. I think I'll stick with my "meltdown" observation. (LOL)
@@Dana-wq5tp Of course you will. I wouldn't expect anything less.
Apparently Truman was well-known for babbling incoherently while melting down next to Dick.
The control of emotion in this is so valuable if you can see it.
Lmaoooo Dick said, wait a min, there's more time!!! 🤣🤣🤣
“If I called any of your admirers bigots who are not bigots, I apologize.” That’s gotta be the most wildest shades you can throw at someone. Genius!!
Dick Cavett is the best talk show host ever (no question). His long-form interviews predated the podcast by 40 years; and he was ALWAYS respectable and highly moral.
I've always felt this while watching old Cavett clips, but when you compare it to the modern-day podcast, now I REALLY feel that vibe.
@ You don't even know what a Marxist is. Did you know Marx retired to England, the most capitalist country of his day??
@206- Sea I thought that was a tongue in cheek remark and you took it seriously
I live in Georgia and I’ve never heard of this “high-pocracy.”
😀😃😄
Is that similar to low-pocracy 🤔
@@Johnny_Blaze1 there has been an increase in high-pocracy that’s why all the low-pocracy seem to be overshadowed. 😭
Truman Capote, Jim Brown, and Lester Maddox. What a lineup!
Old Pete-Thank you! I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone would name the other guest as Capote. I wasn’t sure whether it was him. It would have been interesting to hear his input into the discussion!
@Richard Glenn Good to know.
@@Christycat35 I thought the same.Would love to have heard Capote's thoughts on crazed Lester Maddox.
Dick Cavett sure knows how to keep cool
Lester really road for Georgia
When Truman Capote is speechless you know you've got something happening.
I saw this show the night it originally aired and happened to be audio taping the whole show which I still have. After Maddox leaves and after the commercial break Cavett explains that he went outside to try and convince the Governor to come back into the studio, he did not come back. At one point Cavett, Brown and Capote all sit there and talk about Maddox and his restaurant. Truman Capote then muses that once he went to the restaurant and had the fried chicken then saying something like "it wasn't bad...........but it wasn't finger licking good"
I believe the Cavett people put these clips out on RUclips to generate interest for licensing possibilities. We are lucky to be able to see them. I've been waiting for this show for years.
If I remember right, Dick Cavett did get him back on a later show. And on that show, right after Maddox sat down, Cavett got up and walked out on him. Maddox then got up and asked the band to play a song, then he lead the audience in a sing-song. Cavett came back out, laughing his derriere off. Maddox had won that round.
TheBrabon1 Spot on. Cavett also never seemed to consider himself a celeb and wisely let his guests do most of the speaking because the audience wanted to hear from John & Yoko, Janis Joplin, Capote, etc. His real talent was drawing out the real person being interviewed, not their carefully crafted media persona.
3 against one, at least better than msnbc.
upload it
Dick is a Dick.
I love that halfway through the video Truman Capote appears.
Lester was 55 here? He looks 78.
No 78 more like 87
Thats how you age when you're a bigot
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He didn't say anything biggotted though.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 check his resume
Still a good old boy.
I loved the Dick Cavet show. He interviewed the most interesting people. Now his show is really such gem!🥰
"When the truth hurts they'll always try to deflect or walk away from it....."
Round of a applause for the truth is hurting me Mr Governor!
Jim Brown always been poised about race relations, he always said black folks were wronged in the worst of ways but that our history shouldn’t be the anchor that holds us back from Free Thinking
He's also always held people of all races accountable for their actions..we could use more of that today
Jim brown threatened Lester, and brown lost this debate greatly. Jim brown is an evil man.
@@michaelfedak2144 He is lucky the Mr Brown did not knock his racist arse out.
@S Hmm, Lester Maddox was a staunch segregationist.
@@alexandersinclair like Biden! They probably hung out.
That Dick Cavett was quick thinking, quick witted, and quick talking. This was fascinating.
You should watch the interview with Enoch Powell. He agreed with Enoch Powell rather than making out he was the devil like some interviewers were at the time.
I would have loved to have met and been friends with Dick Cavett. He always had such an even temper in the most hostile of circumstances and always came back in the most articulate response in every situation. His wit was unmatched.
“Wait a minute wait a minute there’s more time” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was just extraordinary. If only modern talk shows and news would aspire to do this well.
Maddox grandstanded to avoid the question. That is all this is.
Can you listen. He says black and white racist have been a issue for him. Thats a answer. Maybe one to true for you to hear.
@@docvaliant721 Was not the question about whether he had any trouble from the White Bigots who supported him because he was so welcoming of Blacks at the Governor's mansion? Did he not use his offense at Dick Cavett's generalization of his supports to avoid answering that simple question?
@XBOXRULES Thank you for the spelling correction.
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@dez Jours Easy man...I've supported many of yr comments but that one sounds like something from Trumpland in its level of hate and logic. What's up with that?
"Wait a minute! There's more time." PRICELESS ❤️
Capote was thoroughly entertained.
I bet he was.
@Kitten Lyric "Look at him shaking his hand" I think he was counting down the the 60 second deadline.
Having been born in the south Truman Capote had first hand knowledge of the racial divisions there. He was the inspiration for the "Dill" character in "To Kill A Mockingbird''.
Yoma Sane Capote was despicable for what he did to the two condemned murderer$ for fame and fortune.
@@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath ?
I like how Cavett stood his ground. That person was clearly a small-minded man who was used to ordering people around, a could not take when someone stood up to him.
Dalsemien I heard a lot of stories about Maddox, this video proved all those stories to be true
"Jim Brown would knock a muthafucker through a brick wall." Richard Pryor
True. Jim Brown was one tough SOB, but he once got it into his head that he could beat Muhammad Ali in a boxing match. The two were friends, but he thought he could beat Ali. Ali invited Brown to have a go at him, just to make a point. Ali stood with his hands at his side and invited Brown to hit him in the face as hard as he could. Jim Brown threw punch after punch at Ali and couldn't land anything. Ali just kept his hands at his side while Jim just tired himself out. Then effortlessly, Ali hit Brown with about 10 quick shots in a few seconds. Again, not to hurt Brown, just to make a point. Brown shrugged and that was the end of that. Point made.
@steve hazard Richard wasn't referring to the lying little racist muthafucker in this clip.
“Wait a minute, wait a minute. There’s more time.” Gotta love Cavett!
Cavett was a beast.
Smart, quick witted, deft and charming, the guy could cut you to the bone before you even knew it was a fight.
All of this! All of it! Just to not answer Jim's question. I love it!
It's how Jim Brown casually removed the governor's hand from his arm at 5:25 for me. ✊🏽🙏🏽
"You don't own me"
Yesss
Yes 🙌🏼 I saw that, Maddox was disrespectful and Brown is like distance please.
lol "don't touch me"
THEY FEEL ENTITLED
Dick Cavett was (and still is) the best. Such a pleasure watching important topics run with a class and intelligence. Imagine that.. today's late shows as Corben, Fallon and other comedian crap who deliberately avoid important topics, because They don't have the courage, knowledge and skills to do this and really give something to audience.
he did apologize to those admirers who "weren't" bigots
Yes but methinks he was "fakest" in doing it; part of which rubbed Lester boy the wrong way.
I'm thinking ole' Lester boy was trying to intimidate and/or humiliate Cavett.
@@kargs5krun Refusing to answer a fair question (Jim Brown's question) because you don't like the "tone" is an old dodge, though. Check out "Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement"
@@dackmont You "lost me" on this. My comment was strictly pert to Mcginnis' OP thread starter (see above) re: Cavett ticking off Maddox with Cavett's first reply/quip and then his refusal to apologize; not LM & JB interaction(s).
That was great!
"Wait a minute theres more time!" LOL legend
he seriously had me weak when he said that😭😂😂😂😂😂😂
0:12 Jim Brown looking slowly at the shoe he's getting ready to boot up Maddox's ass.
Cavett knew exactly what he was doing when he phrased the question in that manner. It was no accident and he was called out on it.
What a genius
Called out? Lol He wasn't called out just some clown trying to mislead everyone but southern hicks are too low iq to mislead educated northerners.
Did you notice how he tapped dance for 3 minutes or so talking about an "apology" while side-stepping the actual question? He knew EXACTLY what Jim Brown meant and he knew EXACTLY what Dick Cavett meant. He just couldn't afford to give them an answer on national TV. That's Politics 101.
Funny watching him though, before he scuried off. Imagine having an a ideology where such a comment could stump you, shameful.
People like you KILL me with that "He did more for blacks" BS. First of all, I was a 13 year old kid when my family and I LIVED in Atlanta, Ga. in 1973. Governor Maddox was out of office by that time but he was still heavily talked about in the public. And I VIVIDLY remember the adults saying nothing but negative shit about the man. AND HE DIDN'T DO ANYMORE FOR BLACK PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER POLITICIAN OF THAT ERA. The things he did do were mandatory and not out of the goodness of his heart. Plus he was a FLAMING racist! The only thing missing from his outfit on The Dick Cavett show was a white sheet with two eye holes in it. You are defending this guy like you were around in 1970 and actually knew about him and his politics. When in reality, you know nothing about this man other than what you've seen in this video. I don't ASSUME things about Lester Maddox. I KNOW the negative things about him. Make sure you know what you're talking about before you post something on social media young man.
5:25😂Like how Jim moved his hand like don’t touch me before I knock you out.😂
Maddox, Cavett, JBrown, TCapote all at once in 1970...simply classic...
He had one with Salvador Dali, Satchel Paige, and Lillian Gish all on at the same time.
One could never fault Cavett for a lack of diversity among his guests!
Never a program like this today!
best talk show of all time. it's a historic capsule of that era.
Was that really Truman Capote to the right? Didn't recognize him.
Jim Brown is a class act. People today can learn alot from this man.
Yes a real class act, a woman beater. That is what people can learn from him. Go read about him before you talk like an ass.
What, obvious aggression? nice.
Yeah although Jim Brown was a champion of the civil rights movement he was a tad behind the times when it came to not punching women in the face.
@@RyderSpearmann cast the first stone. Jesus would have proud of you
@@Matt-bg3bd then cast the first stone oh perfect one.
LMFAO "wait a minute wait a minute, there's more time" dude would've been the ultimate troll nowadays
Put something like this, exactly like this, on TV now and you'll see a Huge uptick in viewers ! All the guests are awesome in there own way and things can get a bit heated but we need this kind of human interaction on TV, now more than ever !
Cheeky way of saying you wanna bring back segregation, I guess
@@The8347135 If that is what you got from this persons comment, then omg you sure are dumb.
I haven't laughed this hard in awhile.
This show was awesome - wish had talk shows like this now
Mr Brown has so much integrity and discipline and Mr Cavett should be commended for this.... classic show
Randummm I don’t think any hookers were thrown that day...😏
man with a tan who thinks like the clan
Cavett's quik, witty responses were on point! Even at the end when he said, Wait, I thought to myself , please do not ask the Governor to stay again, then he said, we have more time left!!!
Jim Brown , and Dick Cavett look super cool with a beard .
Nelson Vargas Cavett looked like a 12 year-old child with that “beard”.
and the astonishing return of Jim Brown - Classic mid 90s Simpsons
Jim Brown's question sparked a reaction in the governor that produced the TRUTH as opposed to the line of BS he was spewing earlier
Gee Kay the moral of the story is that you can never please the black people and you should shun them bc they always want more.
Leftists can't handle the whole truth. Neither can most conservatives.
@@isynciswim7382 basically
@@AA-ek5kz you're a sad little boy. Bet life has been cruel to you
@@JohnJohnson-my8zg You are reflecting, that was your own pathetic life.
i love watching these old talk shows
Dick's response is a priceless classic! Love his phrasing reverse!
Maddox’s voice was what Dana Carvey used when he did Ross Perot on SNL
lmao, So glad I ain't the only one to think that lmao.
Wonderful observation.
🤣😂🤣😂
Wait a minute..wait a minute, there's more time!
🤣🤣🤣 Gold
This moment occurred years before the phrase, "You can't handle the truth", was in the public lexicon, this show was clearly ahead of it's time