A Salute to Dick Cavett

A Salute to Dick Cavett - presented by Citi
June 20, 2014 - From the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

[@LenHummelChannel]

Thanks for uploading this. Dick Cavett is obviously under-appreciated by the "under 50 set", but he was and remains the greatest talk show conversationalist of all time. His guest list is simply amazing and without peer: especially considering that he usually had conversations that lasted 30, 40 and even almost 90 minutes ! Unheard of today.

[@mikeacton2203]

The touchstone for all talk show host, he stands alone

[@glennfromthebronx]

I'm in NYC, remember well the David Suskind Show/Sunday night-W-NEW-TV, and also our PBS/W-NET -13 station's Richard Haffner's THE OPEN MIND.

[@testprepdojo9729]

Now we get Colbert, who insists that every guest prove they are as virtuous as him and if they don’t they bomb in front of his wretched audience.

[@wally1452]

There will never be another man as brilliant and witty as Dick Cavet.! He was (is) another once in a life time phenomenon. Some of us were very fortunate to live in (I believe) the greatest times in entertainment and intellectual history...Cavet leading the pack.

[@MNBluestater]

“We’re living in an age of mediocrity and don’t see that changing anytime soon.” I just nodded my head.

[@simmiewilliams5970]

Never missed an episode, great interviews of the day.

[@jamesdrynan]

Carson had entertainers, Cavett had the creators and the artists. He could engage anyone in conversation, from Ali to Mostel. It is a treasure trove of videos to see the people whose shoulders the current generation stand upon. Never has there been a show as eclectic in personalities as Dick's and probably never will there be.

[@reedgrele6673]

Almost 6k views and only 51 "likes"? Dick was correct about today's audiences with their short attention span.

[@gazwillz3225]

I discovered Cavett a few years ago. It was like finding TREASURE.

[@faithmapstone9982]

A real Gem of a talk show host! ⭐⭐⭐

[@clairef.shepard2776]

I was in love with him since childhood. All that and so terrifically attractive too! Miss him.

[@kromedome0101]

Today's late night hosts couldn't shine Cavett's shoes.

[@testprepdojo9729]

He is the absolute best

[@alanaronald244]

Also loved his New Yorker articles.

[@titasantiniE]

Marvelous Amazing. My favorite talk show

[@spockboy]

One of the greats.

[@tonyajohnson7948]

He was so intellectually and physically sexy . Beyond that the greatest talk show host of my time !

[@faithmapstone9982]

If I had been famous, in whatever filed... I would have loved to have been interviewed by Dick Cavett. ⭐⭐⭐❤⭐⭐

[@clifforddriver9434]

Can't hear it good enough to even listen to it.

[@Jimvanhise]

Cavett interviewed John Lennon and George Harrison but once had to admit that he was in fact never a fan of rock music.

[@Pulsonar]

Jimvanhise He interviewed Hendrix too, Cavett knew the other side of his guests so well that he made them feel so comfortable. It didn’t matter whether he was into their craft or not.

[@larryshaver3568]

i'm so glad Dick ditched the desk when his show was quite new. it was already passe'

[@blahdeblaaah9445]

Hero!

[@davidsanderson5918]

To be fair, like Michael Parkinson in the UK, he was blessed by being at peak popularity when Hollywood legends from the golden era were still in good nick, rock legends with something to say were abundant and the television medium was receptive to long, ponderous, poetic interviews rather than merely promoting a celebrity's new product. I like Cavett but wow what a guest list he had. No other time in popular culture history could've been better for him. That said, his interview with Fred Astaire is a stinker. Michael Parkinson was a better interviewer in the 1970s.

[@jadezee6316]

your conclusion is wrong..otherwise there would have been other dick cavetts...but obviously there was only one

[@Soundofsilence-j4d]

PUMP UP VOLUME IM GOING SLEEP

[@safepethaven]

Even after many decades, I cannot figure out why anyone considered the following as funny: Groucho Marx, George Burns, Shelley Berman, Jackie Gleason, Buddy Hackett, Woody Allen, et al.

[@Amal757]

How old is he here?

[@thomaspiccirillo6820]

He was very URBANE AND CONDESCENDING BUT MESMERIZING I KNEW HIM AS A BOY ON SET SIMPLY BRILLIANT

[@davidsanderson5918]

THOMAS PICCIRILLO Thanks for shouting. My hearing aid is out of batteries.

[@jadezee6316]

cavett was never condescending.....in fact part of what made him appealing was his reverence for his guests...what a dumb-bell

[@tonirose6776]

@@davidsanderson5918 Funny!

[@johnlang1933]

I was gonna give my honest opinion about Dick Cavett..but I was also warned to be polite…

[@glennfromthebronx]

....Cavett's closing comments about Steven Colbert: prescient. Colbert, in his own personality, is, in so many ways less "funnY....but more truthful, intelligent, focused.

[@michaelterry4394]

Stephen Colbert is aMiscreant.

[@tml184]

Metaxas is not funny.

[@samuelmatz]

Rump ? Not funny woke caveat