Woody Allen Plays the Clarinet | The Dick Cavett Show

Woody Allen pulls out his Clarinet to show Dick and the audience some of his impressive skills.
Date aired - 20th October 1971 - Woody Allen
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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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[@jackm4457]

Ah, how I miss the good old days when I could laugh at Woody Allen without getting a lecture.

[@lukeskywalker6809]

Beep beep Jack.

[@simonajezkova]

i am quite new fan of woody allen, so saying something about him in public costs me an absurd amount of nasty glares from family, friends and even complete strangers. what a sad world to live in.

[@tylerlynch2849]

@@simonajezkova Sad world that being a fan of pedophiles gets you nasty looks? Actually that's just the bare minimum standard of morality

[@august6389]

@@tylerlynch2849 woody is innocent

[@baronmeduse]

@@august6389 Who are you, his attorney?

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

That's peak professionalism right there, being hilarious, interesting, informative and aesthetically pleasing as a musician at the same time. I'm extremely impressed!

[@terrytragianopoulos9345]

A fan of Woody Allen for many years These clips from the Cavett show just show what a truly unique genius Woody is Its hard to believe he's turning 86 this December

[@mjscott65]

I saw him in London, in 2004, playing with his jazz band. Awesome night.

[@valentinadannunzio]

He is SO GOOD with his clarinet! Wow

[@zeusminator]

Yes, sounds like he is killing a cat

[@heartpump5883]

he’s been playing at a jazz club on monday nights for many years…he’s a professional musician

[@yassveena]

Wow, what a lively, smart, warm & cool cat.

[@lukeskywalker6809]

Nobody can play the clarinet like Woody Allen.

[@baronmeduse]

Actually a lot of people can.

[@lukeskywalker6809]

@@baronmeduse Not like him.

[@baronmeduse]

@@lukeskywalker6809 Exactly like him, plus better and worse.

[@billseely991]

He played the songs in the movie Sleeper....just learned that

[@bartek311d]

Wow, that was awesome :)

[@jasminegee6924]

Amazing. Talented comedian plays clarinet 🎶

[@arnoldwegstern5124]

Woody is playing marvellous and with many ideas. He should play together with northern Germany s clarinet and sax player Martin Schmidt-Hahn

[@fernandoesteves8144]

I was waiting for the obrigado

[@taylorford6824]

"I'm gonna make faces while I play the 5 notes I know how to play" what a comedic genius

[@williamking8033]

He makes it look sooo easy!

[@jerryleekiller80]

giusto perché è Woody Allen...fa davvero ridere il clarinetto suonato così 🤣

[@somethingyousaid5059]

I would have liked to hear him play Frenesi.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

He's chasing Sidney Bechet's sound.

[@BioDieselEstate]

A sound he will never catch.

[@ooh11]

i totally dig him after rainyday in ny

[@seang3019]

Decent film. But check out Midnight in Paris and a above all: Annie Hall.

[@AngelofMusic04]

@@seang3019 Also "Hannah and Her Sisters", "Crimes & Misdemeanors", "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and "The Purple Rose of Cairo". "Manhattan" definitely has its controversies, but that one's more up to the person if they want to watch it or not.

[@seang3019]

@@AngelofMusic04 I do find the Mariel Hemingway bit cringy in Manhattan but I'll watch it over and over for the opening.

[@flamingopower2637]

​@@AngelofMusic04and "Match Point" and "Blue Jasmine"

[@georgiostemirsidis1966]

Stop hating an innocent man and encouraging others to keep punishing him. There were two thorough investigations conducted by two differents states and they both exonerated Woody and also proved Mia Farrow's tapes were all edited.

[@boudicajones6524]

He was exonerated from marrying and fucking his daughter who he’s still married to? Because I’m pretty sure that’s part of why people find this pervert a little distasteful, despite the fact that he made some funnies two generations ago.

[@ercm2393]

Dang he is really good

[@nicolamcguinness8689]

George Cukor talk about Cary grant

[@Alexios_CV]

The vibrato kills me

[@arnoldwegstern5124]

Nice. But take a look at Martin Schmidt-Hahn clarinet. He would belong to Woody very well !!

[@stevemorse108]

A very good jazz clarinetist recently told me that Woody Allen was a mediocre player....I can only put this down some personal antipathy towards him as a person.Allen even turned that quite soulful playing into a comedic moment...the man is pure genius.

[@Davidelombardi18]

He's right. Horrible sound. If you want hear very good jazz clarinet, you have to listen eddy daniels

[@billseely991]

He's great

[@idkaboutthisfuckoffyoutube1041]

That’s not the only thing he plays

[@thebrowithnoname1703]

The people laughing during his playing is annoying. Unless I’m missing something? I found his playing quite good.

[@mjt1517]

It was a comedic performance. He's juicing the audience right in front of your eyes. True master of his craft.

[@thebrowithnoname1703]

@@mjt1517 Got ya. I’ll admit, I’m not accustomed to Allen’s style of humor.

[@thelookingcat]

Ohler system?

[@randomvids224]

squidward

[@metrognome2225]

Man, the way them women be laughin, he's got some snakes beggin to walk that way, he knows good and well what's up. And only after writing that sentence did I realize who I'm talking about but it doesn't change the facts.

[@agamemnonpadar5706]

I love Woody Allen's films and I have no problem saying that. I don't know the man personally, so I don't care what he did in his private life. If I judged artists by what they did or do, I couldn't listen to Miles Davis, read Bukowski or look at a Picasso painting. If someone tries to lecture me about such petty things and expects me to cancel the artist, he or she gets the finger pointed at me for not caring about his or her snowflake sensibilities and is kindly asked to f.o. These people only have power over you as long as you allow them that power. Again, for the slightly slower minds. You have to separate people and art, unless the artist has a special moral claim.

[@zyxmyk]

i'd forgotten how funny a comic he was. in his movies everybody sounds just like him, so i'm not that big a fan.

[@Gannooch]

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 a part of the main cast?

[@caoimhinbenjamin9998]

They kept laughing like drains but he kept playing his misic anyway.

[@ianmac3469]

This one’s called “I married mah daughter!”

[@clintstewart5545]

she wasn't is daughter , she was adopted when Mia Farrow was with Andre Previn

[@edwarddesenne6153]

Even you , Eirik have still a long way to go to make people laugh at your playing, you play too well, my friend !

[@MetalLord3]

sadly,he only likes to play in A-minor

[@mireilledischer3380]

I no you di’nt!

[@jacekr2655]

Winin' Boy / Jelly Roll Morton

[@segebode519]

Bad!

[@Io-Io-Io]

2:58 He doesn't know whatta say :) hohoho

[@harrisonwestphall2381]

Interesting. People with aspergers have trouble with mechanical things......

[@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out]

meh. like miles said, " I can tell by the way a horn player holds the horn if he can play or not" hearing him confirms what i saw in the thumbnail. stiff phrasing,schmaltzy, sound and notes with no substance, except a lot of cheese. terrible tone. i've heard other stuff from him. no better than this.

[@jakeamberson3239]

I guess it was lost on you he was playing it for laughs and not to win your approval. If you knew anything about him you would know he takes it very serious. But this was a comedy bit. Those of us who understand irony get the joke.

[@seang3019]

He plays the way he writes. It's self conscious and self deprecating for the most part. Here he's doing it for a laugh.

[@sarumanj4205]

You don’t rate him then?

[@mjt1517]

Oh hi, mark. Think about this...he was well known, productive, and a millionaire long before you were born. You will never be featured on any TV talk show. And you won't have millions of lifelong fans. Nor will you create any films that approach even a tenth of his talent. So, in spite of all that cheese and schmaltz, he's light years ahead of you, mark.

[@josephine1465]

Why don't you just focus in increasing the pathetic count of your subscribers mark? 🙄