Neil Simon on Working With Comics | The Dick Cavett Show

Dick Cavett welcomes Oscar-nominated American playwright Neil Simon to the show where they discuss whether Neil imagines what actors play his characters prior to filming, working with comics and writing comedy scripts.
Date aired - December 14 1977 - Neil Simon
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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.
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[@zovalentine7305]

Rest in powerful peace Marvin Neil Simon 🙏
4 July 1927 ~
26 August 2018⚘

[@a.champagne6238]

I wish Dick would start a podcast

[@jadezee6316]

sadly he is much older now and its not always best to not know when ones time has passed

[@TheSankyu99]

Thanks for posting this. If there is a way to balance the audio levels of the interview with the outro-music, that would be appreciated.

[@wizkidsvideos]

Thank you very much for posting this. Such an incredible writer.❤️❤️❤️

[@jadezee6316]

gleason was super smart and very sensitive to who he was talking to....as cavett says here a Great conversationalist...and surprising to me very religious...a real believer....search here for jackie talking to a priest....which is all i recall....

[@tinderbox218]

Imagine deciding to do something else other than get to meet Harpo Marx.

[@jkta97]

Maybe Groucho was in town lol

[@richardburnett-_]

Time-capsule gems

[@jadezee6316]

BTW...there is one comedian who would have gone down as the most successful tv comic (show) in history and he was well on his way..except NO ONE could stand working with him....and that guy was.....Red Bottons......

[@kennethlatham3133]

He reputedly had a feud with the actress Carol Lynley on the set of "Poseidon Adventure", and her character and his were practically glued-at-the-hip throughout that film; seems a bit unwise and pointless.

[@zovalentine7305]

Rest in powerful peace
Walter Matthau🙏
1 October 1920 ~
1 July 2000⚘

[@streettalk4thesoul]

really like his response about jackie gleason. 👍🏾

[@WalterBurton]

LEVELLLLLLLLS!

[@johnboy32064]

The date must be wrong on this. “They’re Playing Our Song” didn’t open until 1979 on Broadway.

[@Gannooch]

Is this channel ever going to show Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason and/or Art Carney? I don’t have the Decades channel at all.

[@RingoandCarlin]

When will the Dr. Seuss interview be on RUclips?

[@Gannooch]

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rare much like the other ones.