Noel Coward! ✌🏼

"frrrrrreind"

And my all time favorite: Noel's critique of a play with an obnoxious child actor in it. "The entire second act and that child's throat should be cut."

Great clip! Is there a full version available?

What's the black bar onscreen for?

Love him! Did a Show of his in New York and I sang “MAD ABOUT THE BOY”❤🎭🎵🎉💋🎶⭐️

He surely had one of the best careers in show business, including dying at just about the age he claimed he would want to and in about the same circumstances.

Apparently, his clipped prose was a result of his mother being very hard of hearing or even deaf, and that manner of speaking facilitated her understanding.

"Talent". This is one of the greatest talkshow replies to a question of all time. This man had versatile talent enough for a dozen writers. Great clip.

Two thirds of this is NOT noel coward

Can you imagine if he was alive today🤣🤣🤣

The very first time I have seen Noel Coward being interviewed and I am so glad I watched. What an incredible mind.

This is just great viewing,but why not the rest of it.

I thought I had seen all the Cavett shows. I didn't know Noel Coward was still alive then. Is it not possible to seen the entire show?

He knew how to play a room!

Coward never spoke to the British national press, so little was actually written about him in his life time. Wrote plays in a week which still run today. Must be the most performed writer of all time after Shakespeare. 🤔

Coward was at a screening of 2001:A Space Odyssey and after the film he was interviewed. The reporter asked him what he thought of Kier Dullea’s performance as he played astronaut Dave Bowman. Coward’s reply was “Kier Dullea gone tomorrow”!

thsnk you

About “fit the name”; Andy Warhola drew a fashion ad and his name was misread by the typesetter or such, and a guy who might not have gotten out of the Ad Creative Office, did.

Noel was apparently very taken with Noel.

How tense and awkward

With a name like Coward it might be why women didn't want him as a husband & he became homosexual.

Before the Beatles came along. He was the definition of “Cool Britania “. His knighthood was denied him for so long because his homosexuality was no secret.

Yep. Absolutely spot on. He IS the one and only!!!

His walk-on tune sounds suspiciously related to the Hawaii Five-O one.

A three minute clip and Coward doesn't appear until two minutes in. Anyway, I love how he milked his entrance for all it was worth.

"Talent!" - Says it all. Thanks for this sublime amusement.

He was a bottom. Which at his height of 6' strikes me as quite a challenging position to fulfil.

N.C. doesn’t even bat an eyelid...an incomparable presence...what’s happened, one wonders...

I am very much an anti-intellectual,...but this was one of my favorite programs when I was a youth.

What a wanker he was.....

I love his 1925 mannerisms!

Well that told him.

A truly brilliant eipcally talented gay man.

That's it? That's all we get?

Coward's "talent" response is not only classic wit, but it's also a subtly piercing dig at Cavett's pompousness. Cavett always made so much of his faux-erudite ramblings, as if the audience were hanging with bated breath to hear the gem he would hail down from his affected rummaging through the cognitive attic. When in fact nobody cared. We just wanted to hear more from the guest. But Cavett always seemed to think the guests were there as a foil for his own brilliant banter, which was, as a rule, clumsy, awkward, cringeworthily self-conscious, and never brilliant. One of the most incredibly over-rated interviewers ever. Coward manages to transform, like water into wine, two simply idiotic questions into entertainment here. That's..."talent."

Imagine the conversation between Noel Coward and Oscar Wild! 😌

I know they censored Elvis below the waist, but I didn't think DC would be so lascivious as to need the black-bar treatment.

never seen Dick laugh like that!

Actually, Pierce is a French name. It should be pronounced “ Purse”.

My favorite gay.literary genius. talent...

2:00 is when it actually starts.

That laugh at the end 🥰🥰

Dick Cavett is almost always worth watching and his guests include some of the most fascinating and brilliant people of the 20th Century. Cavett's skill was that he was able to abandon the script if the interview was going in an interesting direction and just go with it. My parents used to watch his show In Grosse Pointe in the late 60s. Amazing to me that there is so much of his content now available to seek out and stream. Noel Coward is very funny here.