Richard Alva Cavett (/ˈkævɪt/; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States for five decades, from the 1960s through the 2000s.
"Is it true you're running in the presidential election for 1972?" "... Which one is he talking to?" "I don't think he's talking to either of us." LMFAO
It’s so weird think these people were leaders and role models, and to not be insulted by something you’re watching. Compared to the role models who win music and movie awards now. With prestige black tie award ceremonies songs of the year like ‘wet a$$ pu$$y’. Why do all these shows make me believe society and the human race as a whole is in decline, as technology and decadence and narcissists-masquerading-as-empaths grows lmao
(Lady in balcony) "Mr Allen, are you married?" (Woody) "I'm married but separated, so its the same thing but in a different sense; I have to walk a few blocks to get what i want." 😂😂😂
A timpani and a conga, nice. 4:29 the way he takes that to commercial is a particularly fine example of the endearing way he did his job. “And uh, I will, we will be back after this messàge,”
@@pappy374 the blind date....epic!! Oh a Bourbon man..yea I’m putting down a quart a day! “I love the rain,it washes memories off the sidewalks of life” huh?! Stone silence!
@@pappy374 truly a classic scene start to finish...it’s like he’s giving the heil hitler salute when he grunts! And then when he’s showing her how to eat rice at the Chinese restaurant shoveling it in a mile a minute absolutely hilarious and then believing that she’s turned on to him and that he’s going to make a move -sublet my apartment! man that an blazing saddles, animal House are my three all-time favorites...love Woody especially the early stuff.
@@jamesmack3314 "It's a shovelling move you get with your arm! Nomnomnom!" Take The Money And Run is another one that makes me laugh from start to finish (heck, all of Woody's stuff does to a lesser or greater degree). The scene where they interview his parents in Groucho disguises and his father says that the problem was he was an atheist and he tried to beat God into him, but he was too tough!
For all his wit and humor in this appearance, it's still difficult to imagine the heights to which Mr. Allen's career would soon take. [n.b.: Allen initially appears ca. 13:50 of the video.]
"Candy Bergen" (Candice Bergen of "Murphy Brown" (the late 1980's) fame); Bishop = I think that Dick meant Joey Bishop (from the early 1960's); 5:04 - 12:11 = Viewer Mail (if the social media platform, Twitter, was invented in the late 1960's...); on Wikipedia, I found out that Dick played a part, in Woody's debut film, "Annie Hall" (in the late 1970's, with Diane Keaton). I liked the audience Q&A session segment, that involved both Woody and Dick, at the end.
Think about it, this was 1969. Woody hadn't even made his first film. People thought they were watching a fairly funny comedian. They didn't know they were sitting in front of one of the best filmmakers of the 20th century.
A fairly funny comedian? At this stage Woody was being talked about as being one of the funniest stand-ups in the world, and had been for years already.
Actually at the time of this interview Woody HAD INDEED released his very first film "Take the Money and Run" on August 1969. Here's the trailer-www.imdb.com/title/tt0065063/ and here's the film, ruclips.net/video/OpcyZmZrZ3k/видео.html
his next few films in the early 70s were the funniest- Everything you wanted to know about sex, Bananas & Sleeper. But his record became spotty after about’75. He got too serious & full of himself. However there were sporadic greats like Annie Hall & Broadway Danny Rose.
Wow, the letters he read show how far American literacy has fallen. So the fact that I can correctly assemble words into something that resembles coherent standard English, isn't a fluke after all.
@P K Actually, I don't live on the internet. But my point in the earlier comment was made because I found it difficult to believe that obtuse and stentorian bigots would ever have watched anything as erudite as the Dick Cavett show. And yes I do remember the show and Nixon, and the civil rights movement, and the anti-war movement etc., etc., etc. But I rarely got to see this show because my father hated Cavett. Draw your own conclusions as to why. I only got to see this show when my father was at work. Oh, and the "who knew" part above was meant as a small joke.
I found out by accident that Woody Allen's date of birth is exactly 100 years after Mark Twain's date of birth. Isn't that remarkable? I'm surprised that I never hear that mentioned. I guess I can understand why Woody doesn't talk about it. He doesn't want Twain stealing his thunder.
The monologue was awful but it sure picked up steam after that. The letter segment was awesome and Woody was his usual hilarious self with Cavett getting in a number of great jokes as well. On the pushups bit I was hoping one of em was going to say, “I’d win with negative six.” I seem to recall the Woody’s ex sued him over that final joke and lost.
Dick Cavett always seems to try to bring up that Woody is smaller than him, but you can tell from other interviews, Woody has at least half an inch on him.
It’s so weird think these people were leaders and role models, compare that to who wins music and movie awards now. Why do all these shows make me believe society and the human race as a whole is in decline, as technology and decadence and narcissists-masquerading-as-empaths grows lmao
Letterman's shows were quite good. If you use the quality of talk shows as your gauge of cultural quality, you might open your eyes a bit wider. HOWEVER, there is a good deal of deficient TV. Yet, if yr looking to trash contemporary culture, to somehow make it appeaR LESS INTELLECTUAL than Bewitched and Bevery Hillbillies (and other high watermarks of the '60s), that could be a challenge.
I only know Dick Cavett from RUclips and grimacing through his introduction, makes me so pleased not to have watched him, when the show was originally broadcast. He is NOT funny by any stretch of the imagination, he shouldn’t have bothered to try the standup comedy routine, and just introduced the guests.
@@haileyshannon7548 aren't we all? I;m sure you don't follow the speed limit all the time and don't tell me your taxes are to a 'T'. Brought alcohol to a dry section of town?
Say what you want to say about him, Woody Allen is a comic genius. He is funny without being trashy. One smart man.
I’m jealous of this era with such deep intelligence from host, guest, and audience alike.
Entertainment used to be pitched towards mature adults but now there’s more money in entertaining the younger crowd.
Wit is a learned trait. Just keep an eye on contemporary absurdities in EVERTHANG
More like pretentious stupidity.
You're so right!
People that is to say the public at large was given the benefit of the doubt that they had more than a five minute attention span.
I was in Vietnam when this aired...BIG fan of Woody Allen!!
Robby Combs I was a newborn.
Thank you for your service Robby
Thank you for all that you did for us
Was there a way to watch while out?
@@pgcook04 FFS ! There was NO service in Vietnam. Your country committed a Holocaust over there
@@Sam-qc6sz Did for us? Brainwashing at its most disgusting.
This is gold. Woody and Dick made a great combination
Woody and Dick are the secret of bedroom success.
These fellows make a great team.
Iwas 16 when this came out, Iwatched it with my dad.
Woody Allen is great...I love his films.
Hes a nonce
Doesn't matter what Country you are from this man is funny as can be possible!
oh my god, i had watched woody for decades and I had never seen him laugh out loud like that 22:40
Woody Allen I miss ur work.u r one of the finest comic in history.
That letter reading is pure gold!
If only the audience had known, Woody was a great ballplayer!
Richard Alva Cavett (/ˈkævɪt/; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States for five decades, from the 1960s through the 2000s.
So he was 32 or 33 here? I never would have guessed.
Why did you post this
So, you didn’t know who he was so you looked him up on Wikipedia?
"Is it true you're running in the presidential election for 1972?"
"... Which one is he talking to?"
"I don't think he's talking to either of us."
LMFAO
it's great to see this. smart people. ! Thanks Woody, for all the humour.
It’s so interesting to see what stupid people think intelligence is.
It’s so weird think these people were leaders and role models, and to not be insulted by something you’re watching. Compared to the role models who win music and movie awards now. With prestige black tie award ceremonies songs of the year like ‘wet a$$ pu$$y’.
Why do all these shows make me believe society and the human race as a whole is in decline, as technology and decadence and narcissists-masquerading-as-empaths grows lmao
It just struck me how the Big Band era persisted on talk shows.
Good point - never thought of that
The people who fought in WW2 we middle aged when this came out. Still relatively young. So that sound still had a lot of currency.
@@adampeters7947 Absolutely, but my parents (in that exact era) had zero interest in Dick Cavett or Woody Allen.
@@adampeters7947 Still like it
Thanks for uploading this saves me from having to watch the whole show on Decades.
I would have loved to watched the full show. What was going on in 1969?
Woody Allen’s autobiography “Apropos of Nothing” His story its all there.
Yes and it’s clear that Mia Farrow is a psycho BIT……
Me too. He's very horny most of the time.
It is a great book! Until he starts going off on Mia Farrow. Then it becomes genuinely freaky
I used to love Allen's movies and was in awe of his wit and perception. But watching him now some 50 years later he just seems so full of himself.
his daughter is full by him
@@tomtom6319 Ouch! Yeah, the world isn't what it seemed.
@@tomtom6319He married his then girlfriend's adopted daughter, who wasn't a minor at the time, nitwit.
@@tomtom6319He did NOT marry his daughter.
That seller's social affect was conventional for talk shows then...AND NOW.
Do you find today's guests more humble? How odd.
Woody is the funniest!!
I really wish I could find Joan Baez and Allen Ginsberg episodes.
(Lady in balcony) "Mr Allen, are you married?"
(Woody) "I'm married but separated, so its the same thing but in a different sense; I have to walk a few blocks to get what i want." 😂😂😂
@@mandysimmons2769 That's pretty clever of you, Mandy. I'd love to see your comments on _Smokey and the Bandit._
@@RideAcrossTheRiver How's that related to Woody? LOL
@@mandysimmons2769 Keep it clean, Mandy.
22:58 That is probably one of Woody's best laugh!!!
thanks so much for posting this. Does anyone have the Joan Baez episode from the previous week they are talking about?
We love you, Woody! You're the greatest! #WeLoveWoodyAllen
Rick Moranis did a great job here.
True. I love his parodies of Woody on SCTV. Brilliant!
The opening monolog were not always tge strongest ... but always had excellent guests.
A timpani and a conga, nice. 4:29 the way he takes that to commercial is a particularly fine example of the endearing way he did his job. “And uh, I will, we will be back after this messàge,”
The only guest smaller than Cavett.
"Pure brilliance"
Play it again Sam is possibly his funniest film...
"You were all out of bourbon, so I made it a straight water"
@@pappy374 the blind date....epic!! Oh a Bourbon man..yea I’m putting down a quart a day! “I love the rain,it washes memories off the sidewalks of life” huh?! Stone silence!
@@jamesmack3314 The blind date scene is so, so funny. I love the very beginning when she is introduced and Woody just grunts at her!
@@pappy374 truly a classic scene start to finish...it’s like he’s giving the heil hitler salute when he grunts!
And then when he’s showing her how to eat rice at the Chinese restaurant shoveling it in a mile a minute absolutely hilarious and then believing that she’s turned on to him and that he’s going to make a move -sublet my apartment! man that an blazing saddles, animal House are my three all-time favorites...love Woody especially the early stuff.
@@jamesmack3314 "It's a shovelling move you get with your arm! Nomnomnom!"
Take The Money And Run is another one that makes me laugh from start to finish (heck, all of Woody's stuff does to a lesser or greater degree). The scene where they interview his parents in Groucho disguises and his father says that the problem was he was an atheist and he tried to beat God into him, but he was too tough!
Allen comes out at 13:47.
37Dionysos you da man
Thank you...
Comes out looking like Edith Bunker LOL
Thank you, nothing against dick but he's no comedian !
We had to wait for a long time..
For all his wit and humor in this appearance, it's still difficult to imagine the heights to which Mr. Allen's career would soon take. [n.b.: Allen initially appears ca. 13:50 of the video.]
Men will be men. I don’t put anything past anyone anymore.
This was a time when you had to have talent to be on t.v.
You'd never be on TV then.
Only idiots watch tv. People like you.
Hindsight is often rosy.
The key question comes at 19:35
The first question from the audience member is priceless. And strangely presentiment.
Allen Stewart Konigsberg, nombre real de Woody Allen, nació el 1 de diciembre de 1935 en Brooklyn, Nueva York (Estados Unidos).
The best of tv
Amazing, this is from 1969, how did America n intelligence fall so far fast
It's always been there. Technology, digital, has made it apparent.
@@zeldasmith6154 Try that again.
,NIXON, REAGAN,BUSH,TRUMP.
He himself says (when he’s not marrying his own daughters) he’s not an intellectual
America didn’t, it’s just you.
Dadaist comedy 🎭 at its best
Not many know what DADA is.
We shouldn't really have to ask ourselves the question about separating the art and the artist but, hey hoh, here we are.
love woody!!!!!! hes GreaTist!!!!!!!
Robby24ish q
"Candy Bergen" (Candice Bergen of "Murphy Brown" (the late 1980's) fame); Bishop = I think that Dick meant Joey Bishop (from the early 1960's); 5:04 - 12:11 = Viewer Mail (if the social media platform, Twitter, was invented in the late 1960's...); on Wikipedia, I found out that Dick played a part, in Woody's debut film, "Annie Hall" (in the late 1970's, with Diane Keaton). I liked the audience Q&A session segment, that involved both Woody and Dick, at the end.
aired September 19, 1969
Think about it, this was 1969. Woody hadn't even made his first film. People thought they were watching a fairly funny comedian. They didn't know they were sitting in front of one of the best filmmakers of the 20th century.
A fairly funny comedian? At this stage Woody was being talked about as being one of the funniest stand-ups in the world, and had been for years already.
Actually at the time of this interview Woody HAD INDEED released his very first film "Take the Money and Run" on August 1969. Here's the trailer-www.imdb.com/title/tt0065063/
and here's the film, ruclips.net/video/OpcyZmZrZ3k/видео.html
"What's New Pussycat?" 1965 he was a writer and performer.
He performed in other films but "Take the Money and Run" was his directorial debut. He was also a co-writer and producer.
his next few films in the early 70s were the funniest- Everything you wanted to know about sex, Bananas & Sleeper. But his record became spotty after about’75. He got too serious & full of himself. However there were sporadic greats like Annie Hall & Broadway Danny Rose.
Wow, the letters he read show how far American literacy has fallen. So the fact that I can correctly assemble words into something that resembles coherent standard English, isn't a fluke after all.
My favorite part of this comment is that it isn't properly punctuated.
Also, don’t start your sentences with “So”.
It’s meant to accentuate the point
@@ArmyJames So, why not? And let me add many assumed rules are less rigid than is commonly assumed.
@@tforte7004 It’s pretentious and makes the speaker sound like they don’t know what they’re talking about.
"I have an interest in anything on the other side of the law"
that's for sure.
So smart
Enjoy
Woody on clarinet and Martin Schmidt-Hahn on clarinet as well. This would be nice !!
Allen, no offense, wasn't a Good MUsician
Dick Cavett is funny!
The name of Woody's movie is not mentioned, Take The Money and Run seems to be the obvious one .
These letters from 1969 surprised me. They are very like viewer comments on here or internet chat rooms - conflicted . . . Who knew?
@P K Actually, I don't live on the internet. But my point in the earlier comment was made because I found it difficult to believe that obtuse and stentorian bigots would ever have watched anything as erudite as the Dick Cavett show. And yes I do remember the show and Nixon, and the civil rights movement, and the anti-war movement etc., etc., etc. But I rarely got to see this show because my father hated Cavett. Draw your own conclusions as to why. I only got to see this show when my father was at work. Oh, and the "who knew" part above was meant as a small joke.
Dick Cavett's tendency to try to gain attention with his smug attention-seeking remarks is annoying.
A show host trying to engage the audience's attention annoys you? Might I suggest you avoid TV viewing utterly.
13:45 Woody appears..
Woody enters 13:49
Shouting from balcony " Is he back again?" aahahahahahahahah
COOL VIDEO ! WEDNESDAY 8/3/22 AUGUST 3, 2022
Cavett was a no talent doosch and everyone knew it. He was the Fallon/Kimmel of his time. Woody is brilliant as usual
You can’t even spell “douche”. 🙄
From a letter read out "I don't want bland and uninspired television" then you certainly wouldn't want our British BBC.
I found out by accident that Woody Allen's date of birth is exactly 100 years after Mark Twain's date of birth. Isn't that remarkable? I'm surprised that I never hear that mentioned. I guess I can understand why Woody doesn't talk about it. He doesn't want Twain stealing his thunder.
Did I miss the name of Woody’s film? 1969 so must be “Take the Money and Run” but not well plugged here anyway.
No monologues please, but more of Woody Allen.
19:36 a time traveler asks the first question
The audience broke Woody Allen.
MAGA was alive even back then!
Imbeciles and cult followers have existed in every age.
The Woodman at 13:15.
I was 9
28:10 Obviously Woody learned how to do pushups from Spanky
I can’t take my shirt off because I gave a pornographic tattoo on my chest 😂😀😂😅
The monologue was awful but it sure picked up steam after that. The letter segment was awesome and Woody was his usual hilarious self with Cavett getting in a number of great jokes as well.
On the pushups bit I was hoping one of em was going to say, “I’d win with negative six.”
I seem to recall the Woody’s ex sued him over that final joke and lost.
LOL- I have to watch a 50 year old Cavett performance to hear “ deluged” pronounced correctly. I’m learning to be grateful for less and less.
Dick Cavett always seems to try to bring up that Woody is smaller than him, but you can tell from other interviews, Woody has at least half an inch on him.
Obviously, that was a joke.
13:41 Woody Allen
I just noticed the Pornhub-style "excitement scale" on the timeline. Didn't know YT had that.
the nearly last questioner looks like Ray Bolger
13:41 you're welcome
13:10 ruclips.net/video/So0MnN_6Y3M/видео.html it's a louis armstrong impression of that song!
Woody really could not do a push-up.
woody is the best. also those responders to Baez and ginsberg probably voted for trump
Wow. The crowd wants intellectual pin-ups!
Did not remember the band
Fucking jesus...the interview starts at 13:42
It’s so weird think these people were leaders and role models, compare that to who wins music and movie awards now.
Why do all these shows make me believe society and the human race as a whole is in decline, as technology and decadence and narcissists-masquerading-as-empaths grows lmao
Letterman's shows were quite good. If you use the quality of talk shows as your gauge of cultural quality, you might open your eyes a bit wider.
HOWEVER, there is a good deal of deficient TV. Yet, if yr looking to trash contemporary culture, to somehow make it appeaR LESS INTELLECTUAL than Bewitched and Bevery Hillbillies (and other high watermarks of the '60s), that could be a challenge.
Woody joked how he preferred a fascist dictator to run things. He only had to wait a few years for the Donald to enter the scene.
Ha ha ha you are as funny as f maybe you should Annalise your hero Woody's relationship with his seven year old daughter before you talk c**p
13:13
It was either twisted movie producer/director or Catholic priest. Apparently the perks are very similar. LOL ;-)
Harvey the Rapist Weinstein couldn’t make it, he’s tied up in Prison
I love Woody Allen, but the Queen's husband wasn't "the King". Prince Phillip was the Prince Consort. He was never in line to the Throne.
But if the Queen had balls she would be King...
I understand he likes little black boys.
I only know Dick Cavett from RUclips and grimacing through his introduction, makes me so pleased not to have watched him, when the show was originally broadcast. He is NOT funny by any stretch of the imagination, he shouldn’t have bothered to try the standup comedy routine, and just introduced the guests.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Out loud...especially his last joke..
Woody Allen, Groucho Marx and Andy Dick all look alike. Comedy dopplegangers.
He wanted to be a criminal. 🤔
don't we all?
@@haileyshannon7548 aren't we all? I;m sure you don't follow the speed limit all the time and don't tell me your taxes are to a 'T'. Brought alcohol to a dry section of town?
"How is it like being a pervert.? ".. Did I hear that?
I read his autobiogtaphy, and he actually did .
@@sheiladineen9483Well, read it again. But first learn to read properly.
He is so unfunny.
When did he insult Reagan here?