Woody Allen Dick Cavett 1969

[@gwynnielsen5081]

Say what you want to say about him, Woody Allen is a comic genius. He is funny without being trashy. One smart man.

[@2425eryy]

I’m jealous of this era with such deep intelligence from host, guest, and audience alike.

[@mattcorcoran7082]

Entertainment used to be pitched towards mature adults but now there’s more money in entertaining the younger crowd.

[@Canada_Dominium]

Wit is a learned trait. Just keep an eye on contemporary absurdities in EVERTHANG

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

More like pretentious stupidity.

[@gedofgont1006]

You're so right!

[@marco252005]

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.

[@rafaelmoura2103]

oh my god, i had watched woody for decades and I had never seen him laugh out loud like that 22:40

[@philsooty61]

Doesn't matter what Country you are from this man is funny as can be possible!

[@roberthockett270]

These fellows make a great team.

[@mohitsharmasharma7053]

Woody Allen I miss ur work.u r one of the finest comic in history.

[@angrytamilbaldman6107]

This is gold. Woody and Dick made a great combination

[@tinsolder9929]

Woody and Dick are the secret of bedroom success.

[@jeffstewart3342]

Iwas 16 when this came out, Iwatched it with my dad.

[@robertcombs55]

I was in Vietnam when this aired...BIG fan of Woody Allen!!

[@davidadams2395]

Robby Combs I was a newborn.

[@pgcook04]

Thank you for your service Robby

[@Sam-qc6sz]

Thank you for all that you did for us Was there a way to watch while out?

[@honesty_-no9he]

@@pgcook04 FFS ! There was NO service in Vietnam. Your country committed a Holocaust over there

[@honesty_-no9he]

@@Sam-qc6sz Did for us? Brainwashing at its most disgusting.

[@Canada_Dominium]

"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

[@Levitaz4236]

That letter reading is pure gold!

[@rolfh]

Woody Allen’s autobiography “Apropos of Nothing” His story its all there.

[@jamesmack3314]

Yes and it’s clear that Mia Farrow is a psycho BIT……

[@EdDunkle]

Me too. He's very horny most of the time.

[@concernedcitizen1382]

It is a great book! Until he starts going off on Mia Farrow. Then it becomes genuinely freaky

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

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.

[@dewilew2137]

So he was 32 or 33 here? I never would have guessed.

[@seanwade8188]

Why did you post this

[@wadestevens5659]

So, you didn’t know who he was so you looked him up on Wikipedia?

[@richardblayneamerican8149]

If only the audience had known, Woody was a great ballplayer!

[@hotsox9117]

Woody Allen is great...I love his films.

[@DungeonTV100]

Hes a nonce

[@writereducator]

It just struck me how the Big Band era persisted on talk shows.

[@rhythmfield]

Good point - never thought of that

[@adampeters7947]

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.

[@writereducator]

@@adampeters7947 Absolutely, but my parents (in that exact era) had zero interest in Dick Cavett or Woody Allen.

[@concernedcitizen1382]

@@adampeters7947 Still like it

[@mandysimmons2769]

Thanks for uploading this saves me from having to watch the whole show on Decades.

[@sandraandrews9907]

I would have loved to watched the full show. What was going on in 1969?

[@romanlandau5713]

it's great to see this. smart people. ! Thanks Woody, for all the humour.

[@dewilew2137]

It’s so interesting to see what stupid people think intelligence is.

[@skivvy3565]

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

[@kargs5krun]

(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." 😂😂😂

[@Canada_Dominium]

@@mandysimmons2769 That's pretty clever of you, Mandy. I'd love to see your comments on _Smokey and the Bandit._

[@mandysimmons2769]

@@Canada_Dominium ​How's that related to Woody? LOL

[@Canada_Dominium]

@@mandysimmons2769 Keep it clean, Mandy.

[@artlover1477]

22:58 That is probably one of Woody's best laugh!!!

[@Levitaz4236]

I really wish I could find Joan Baez and Allen Ginsberg episodes.

[@tylerrigdon6795]

Woody is the funniest!!

[@gmmaal7161]

thanks so much for posting this. Does anyone have the Joan Baez episode from the previous week they are talking about?

[@MokkaMatti]

Rick Moranis did a great job here.

[@CarefulObserver1]

True. I love his parodies of Woody on SCTV. Brilliant!

[@graxjpg]

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,”

[@ucctgg]

The only guest smaller than Cavett.

[@BGTuyau]

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.]

[@dewilew2137]

Men will be men. I don’t put anything past anyone anymore.

[@37Dionysos]

Allen comes out at 13:47.

[@orsonwelles4254]

37Dionysos you da man

[@bt10ant]

Thank you...

[@ellDiavolo666]

Comes out looking like Edith Bunker LOL

[@petermaxwell2965]

Thank you, nothing against dick but he's no comedian !

[@nataliedelagrandiere4022]

We had to wait for a long time..

[@robertepervary264]

The opening monolog were not always tge strongest ... but always had excellent guests.

[@cinnamon4605]

"Pure brilliance"

[@AngusRockford]

The key question comes at 19:35

[@tonylabianca7946]

This was a time when you had to have talent to be on t.v.

[@nebularain3338]

You'd never be on TV then.

[@dewilew2137]

Only idiots watch tv. People like you.

[@lincolnyaco5626]

Hindsight is often rosy.

[@jamesmack3314]

Play it again Sam is possibly his funniest film...

[@pappy374]

"You were all out of bourbon, so I made it a straight water"

[@jamesmack3314]

@@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]

@@jamesmack3314 The blind date scene is so, so funny. I love the very beginning when she is introduced and Woody just grunts at her!

[@jamesmack3314]

@@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.

[@pappy374]

@@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!

[@antoniatejedabarros]

We love you, Woody! You're the greatest! #WeLoveWoodyAllen

[@davidlarson9125]

The first question from the audience member is priceless. And strangely presentiment.

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Allen Stewart Konigsberg, nombre real de Woody Allen, nació el 1 de diciembre de 1935 en Brooklyn, Nueva York (Estados Unidos).

[@kshinokevin]

"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.

[@paxwallacejazz]

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.

[@River_StGrey]

My favorite part of this comment is that it isn't properly punctuated.

[@ArmyJames]

Also, don’t start your sentences with “So”.

[@tforte7004]

It’s meant to accentuate the point

[@lincolnyaco5626]

@@ArmyJames So, why not? And let me add many assumed rules are less rigid than is commonly assumed.

[@ArmyJames]

@@tforte7004 It’s pretentious and makes the speaker sound like they don’t know what they’re talking about.

[@AnnoyingCritic-is7rp]

"I have an interest in anything on the other side of the law" that's for sure.

[@geeyetwah5858]

Amazing, this is from 1969, how did America n intelligence fall so far fast

[@zeldasmith6154]

It's always been there. Technology, digital, has made it apparent.

[@batswbennett]

@@zeldasmith6154 Try that again.

[@darshanakaivalya8748]

,NIXON, REAGAN,BUSH,TRUMP.

[@christopherp.hitchens3902]

He himself says (when he’s not marrying his own daughters) he’s not an intellectual

[@dewilew2137]

America didn’t, it’s just you.

[@workingTchr]

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.

[@tomtom6319]

his daughter is full by him

[@workingTchr]

@@tomtom6319 Ouch! Yeah, the world isn't what it seemed.

[@teveve31]

​@@tomtom6319He married his then girlfriend's adopted daughter, who wasn't a minor at the time, nitwit.

[@Ausgar-yc1yl]

​​@@tomtom6319He did NOT marry his daughter.

[@lincolnyaco5626]

That seller's social affect was conventional for talk shows then...AND NOW. Do you find today's guests more humble? How odd.

[@funksoulbrother3620]

We shouldn't really have to ask ourselves the question about separating the art and the artist but, hey hoh, here we are.

[@robertdickins9409]

The best of tv

[@knownpleasures]

Dadaist comedy 🎭 at its best

[@lincolnyaco5626]

Not many know what DADA is.

[@stevemorse108]

Dick Cavett's tendency to try to gain attention with his smug attention-seeking remarks is annoying.

[@lincolnyaco5626]

A show host trying to engage the audience's attention annoys you? Might I suggest you avoid TV viewing utterly.

[@noodlehat3250]

13:45 Woody appears..

[@algie-t2w]

From a letter read out "I don't want bland and uninspired television" then you certainly wouldn't want our British BBC.

[@julianbufarull7602]

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.

[@pappy374]

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.

[@Grisostomo06]

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, kzbin.info/www/bejne/haHGqo2jj9eNac0

[@gauchemurleau]

"What's New Pussycat?" 1965 he was a writer and performer.

[@Grisostomo06]

He performed in other films but "Take the Money and Run" was his directorial debut. He was also a co-writer and producer.

[@BenSussmanpro]

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.

[@rebeccao8895]

Woody enters 13:49

[@surewhynot6040]

Cavett was a no talent doosch and everyone knew it. He was the Fallon/Kimmel of his time. Woody is brilliant as usual

[@dewilew2137]

You can’t even spell “douche”. 🙄

[@TTM9691]

aired September 19, 1969

[@yowzephyr]

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.

[@darlenel9226]

Dick Cavett is funny!

[@irafutterman5557]

The name of Woody's movie is not mentioned, Take The Money and Run seems to be the obvious one .

[@martinedutertre]

So smart Enjoy

[@Robby24ish]

love woody!!!!!! hes GreaTist!!!!!!!

[@lbjs42]

Robby24ish q

[@arnoldwegstern5124]

Woody on clarinet and Martin Schmidt-Hahn on clarinet as well. This would be nice !!

[@concernedcitizen1382]

Allen, no offense, wasn't a Good MUsician

[@niko9838]

Shouting from balcony " Is he back again?" aahahahahahahahah

[@stevesloan7132]

These letters from 1969 surprised me. They are very like viewer comments on here or internet chat rooms - conflicted . . . Who knew?

[@stevesloan7132]

@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.

[@gowensbach2998]

MAGA was alive even back then!

[@RegWho]

Imbeciles and cult followers have existed in every age.

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

28:10 Obviously Woody learned how to do pushups from Spanky

[@marvndave]

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.

[@lincolnyaco5626]

Obviously, that was a joke.

[@rsr789]

The audience broke Woody Allen.

[@williamwoody7607]

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.

[@bobski7032]

19:36 a time traveler asks the first question

[@knownpleasures]

I can’t take my shirt off because I gave a pornographic tattoo on my chest 😂😀😂😅

[@paxwallacejazz]

I was 9

[@ralphlee5399]

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.

[@browningautomatic2393]

COOL VIDEO ! WEDNESDAY 8/3/22 AUGUST 3, 2022

[@rolfh]

Did I miss the name of Woody’s film? 1969 so must be “Take the Money and Run” but not well plugged here anyway.

[@Gorboduc]

The Woodman at 13:15.

[@geekay1349]

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.

[@Letsgetiton41]

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

[@skivvy3565]

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

[@lincolnyaco5626]

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.

[@tomgardner8825]

woody is the best. also those responders to Baez and ginsberg probably voted for trump

[@nataliedelagrandiere4022]

No monologues please, but more of Woody Allen.

[@zeldasmith6154]

Woody really could not do a push-up.

[@MTKarthik]

13:41 you're welcome

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

I understand he likes little black boys.

[@Tmanaz480]

I just noticed the Pornhub-style "excitement scale" on the timeline. Didn't know YT had that.

[@IronSoldier03]

13:41 Woody Allen

[@barrycross2585]

I only know Dick Cavett from KZbin 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.

[@peter_castle]

13:10 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaCTfqGElJuMaa8 it's a louis armstrong impression of that song!

[@Rony2453]

the nearly last questioner looks like Ray Bolger

[@stevesloan7132]

Wow. The crowd wants intellectual pin-ups!

[@oscarclarke2653]

Fucking jesus...the interview starts at 13:42

[@shanegreen1677]

13:13

[@cinnamon4605]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@robertepervary264]

Did not remember the band

[@sclogse1]

Out loud...especially his last joke..

[@b.randal5404]

It was either twisted movie producer/director or Catholic priest. Apparently the perks are very similar. LOL ;-)

[@joeviking61]

Harvey the Rapist Weinstein couldn’t make it, he’s tied up in Prison

[@drwhatson]

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.

[@tomjones5650]

But if the Queen had balls she would be King...

[@silvio.r8443]

Woody Allen, Groucho Marx and Andy Dick all look alike. Comedy dopplegangers.

[@BrookeRainwater]

He wanted to be a criminal. 🤔

[@haileyshannon7548]

don't we all?

[@tomservo5007]

@@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?

[@christopherhogan691]

"How is it like being a pervert.? ".. Did I hear that?

[@sheiladineen9483]

I read his autobiogtaphy, and he actually did .

[@viktorkaposi8256]

​@@sheiladineen9483Well, read it again. But first learn to read properly.

[@Revelian1982]

He is so unfunny.

[@Canada_Dominium]

When did he insult Reagan here?