Alfred Hitchcock Was a Practical Joker | The Dick Cavett Show

What a sense of humor!
Date aired - June 8, 1972 - Alfred Hitchcock
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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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[@shaunholt]

Hitchcock had a great way of smiling on the inside and just a touch of it showing while the rest of him looks morbid. Very tongue-in-cheek but so subtly done, yet he really seems to have had an immense sense of humor.

[@sebastianapollodelavega1445]

true

[@mindtrapped9934]

Makes me chuckle picturing a young hitchcock saying “its just a prank bro!”

[@hypolyxa7207]

Luckily people seemed to have a greater vocabulary back then.

[@favoritemustard3542]

@@hypolyxa7207 😱🍆🐔?

[@jasondavidcox]

Casually just destroys Orson Welles and everyone acts like nothing happened. "Yes he's famous for that one picture citizen Kane."

[@shnwll1756]

he didn’t destroy anything you dumbass

[@GuilainMusic]

@@shnwll1756 i sort of agree, his answer was pretty cold..

[@fifthbusiness1678]

Yeah, I found that quite petty and unnecessary. He must have been aware of Welles’ other films, such as The Magnificent Ambersons.

[@FreakieFan]

@@fifthbusiness1678 Touch of Evil is a masterpiece too

[@heldinahtmlhell]

@@fifthbusiness1678 What was petty and unnecessary was the Yank insisting on including a Yank director, when a Brit had listed a couple of European directors.

[@Kwijiboz]

I´m glad to confirm that he liked Buñuel´s work

[@younglord3432]

Un chien andalou is my fav of his

[@stevenfreekin5946]

The car assembly line with the body inside idea that Hitchcock talks about was used by John Carpenter for Christine. It was also referenced by Steven Spielberg in Minority Report during the fight scene in the factory between Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell.

[@Dominick_Calvitto.]

Hitchcock was a Cinematic Genius.

[@drmorqWarrenProject]

Brilliant... absolutely Brilliant...

[@LunchableSandwich]

4:24 That previous idea he was talking about reminded me of a lot of Stephen King's "Christine". Car on an assembly line, being put together. Someone eventually opening the door and a body falls out.

[@drmorqWarrenProject]

I work at a local car dealership at night cleaning the offices and showrooms... You have no idea how many times each night I think about Christine... Every time the building makes a weird sound..

[@DIDCOTTWIST]

And a lot of people in the audience laugh at the idea 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@j1st633]

In 1977 I visited universal studios. The tram ride passed his studio office. Returned years later, it was gone.

[@ThePlaceForThings]

“can you be happy when you’re not working on a film?” “where always working on a film in some way or another” love how this show is being reborn to my generation via KZbin. lots of great interviews with filmmaking legends 🐐

[@harryradley]

*calls Orson Wells a one hit wonder and doesn't even get challenged* that's some directorial clout.

[@merlinjames5954]

Is he wrong, tho?

[@harryradley]

@@merlinjames5954 To be fair, I haven't seen all of Welles' films (Touch of Evil was pretty good though I understand some of his work was rather mediocre). I was just mentioning that it takes some serious confidence to trash the guy who made Citizen Kane. I mean, everyone's got an opinion but talking down on someone in your own field really takes guts. Don't get me wrong, I think it was very cool, it's pretty taboo though. I was trying to come up with a more modern analogy and realised several great directors are named David lol. "Lynch says Fincher's only good movie was Fight Club" etc. I just came up with that for entertainment value, I don't stand by it haha.

[@guileniam]

Tbf Orson Welles trashed talk him too. Said he doesn't understand why Hitchcock was so big and that rear window was one of the worst films he'd ever seen

[@harryradley]

@@guileniam Wow. I thought Rear Window was genius. I wonder what his reasoning was. It was cool back when high profile people attacked each other and it didn't feel like a contrived publicity stunt (even though it probably was half the time back then as well lol).

[@themoreyouknowfools4974]

@@merlinjames5954 yes

[@EvaandJavier]

What an incredible presence.

[@GuilainMusic]

Who would have thought he was so hilarious.

[@geraldjyrkinen4276]

I love Alfrid Hitchcock! Always have. Saw almost all his film's?

[@colinwilliams553]

At 3:33, Hitchcock telling a story about an idea for a film that takes place at a assembly line.Hitchcock was right, someone was watching the Cavett show that particular night a young man named.... STEPHEN KING!

[@topsyturvyy4558]

A Majestic Movie Director!

[@polishgerman3065]

The ridiciousness from Hitchcock's comments are so hilarious because he seems so serious.

[@linengray]

Please upload more. Please don't break them up so much.

[@YYmmmYY]

Great stuff, Hitchcock is a genius trailblazer

[@ncavlleguy]

The master speaks ......

[@edmundblackadder2741]

0:19 Frank Reynolds must of been there

[@smartman123]

great man RIP

[@MrPlooky]

CHECK OUT THE boom mic over his head..

[@linengray]

He talked so low they had to have the boom in close. It was before the modern individual mics.

[@MrPlooky]

@@linengray that's rather obvious

[@FFrrEEddRRiiKK1]

Fantastic.

[@kunfuyy]

The master!!!

[@williamgregory1848]

Hitchcock was a notorious practical joker. He had a penchant for pulling absurd and often cruel pranks on his movie sets and in his private life. He delighted in placing whoopee cushions under his coworkers’ chairs and once held a dinner party where all the courses had been inexplicable dyed blue with food coloring. For one of his most elaborate stunts, Hitchcock bet one of his crew that the man couldn’t spend a whole night locked in handcuffs. The crewman accepted, only to later find that the director had secretly dosed him with a laxative before slapping on the cuffs. In some cases, Hitchcock even used his pranks as part of the creative process. During the filming of “The 39 Steps,” he handcuffed the two leads together for a scene and then pretended to have lost the key. The actors were chained to each other for a good while before Hitchcock suddenly “found” the key in a coat pocket and explained that the ordeal had been a ruse to help them build chemistry.

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (Londres, 13 de agosto de 1899-Los Ángeles, 29 de abril de 1980) fue un director de cine, productor y guionista británico. 124 años 080 años 044 años

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Richard Alva Cavett 19 de noviembre de 1936 86 años. (87)

[@jantyszka1036]

The blue food gag is interesting because the human brain is programmed to see blue food as unsafe to eat because it is not fresh and could poison you.

[@juliansegovia4991]

what a man

[@takingnone1780]

If he could see the sense of humour now...

[@johnperrigo6474]

Hmmmm...... yeah what would be say about that?

[@topsyturvyy4558]

@@johnperrigo6474 He'd go back to his grave, many of us are sick of the cultural values today.

[@brokenfans4175]

Alfred Hitchcock in the thumbnail tho

[@anthonydavis3424]

Nice

[@geraldjyrkinen4276]

I agree Alfrid Hitchcock I hire you for this venture. It has to be the very best in my favor! If you desire tye job. Let me know your thoughts.! God Bless You.

[@herbs275]

Those Paws. .

[@paraworldblue]

Did he ever manage to pull off that car factory scene? If so, does anyone have a link to it?

[@MChiave]

They don't make them like that anymore!

[@arabellawoolf3834]

think his dinner party prank was somewhat inspired by elagabalus

[@highvoltagemedia7150]

So Spielberg ripped off this idea that Hitchcock had for North by Northwest and used it for Minority Report(more or less)

[@nicholasborkowski3589]

I was about to comment this! Yes, agree

[@belia1313]

Alfred had the hots for Tippi Hedren

[@The3rdGunman]

Yeah he was on that Weinstien mode way back in the day

[@mikitz]

Then again, who didn't...

[@Gannooch]

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 a part of the main cast?

[@Gannooch]

How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other videos around here.

[@thefakenewsnetwork8072]

Long live democratic socialism, freedom and sir hitchcock legacy 🙏

[@jackjack-yq1pc]

For all his awards, Cavett was either intimidated by Hitchcock or just a pathetically feeble interviewer.

[@johnperrigo6474]

I think he was just being deferential and in awe of him.

[@aidanmj1927]

the blue joke isnt that funny

[@juliansegovia4991]

you were there?

[@heshamhany8470]

Different times...Different humor

[@favoritemustard3542]

@@heshamhany8470, just as Mr. Hitchcock said; good of you to remind @Haiden ↑ there! 👍

[@iain2080]

The blue food isn't even the point, the point is that he didn't even acknowledge it to his guests

[@anthonydavis3424]

Nobody cares went you think