FRESH AIR: DICK CAVETT (RADIO)
Summary
One in this series of daily interview programs featuring conversations with cultural and entertainment figures, hosted by Terry Gross. In this program, Gross interviews talk show host, comedian, and writer Dick Cavett. Interview highlights include the following: Cavett's denial that he is an intellectual; the advantage an interviewer gains from the pause provided by commercial breaks; advice Woody Allen gave Cavett about conducting interviews; the difference between watching a talk show in the studio as opposed to viewing it on television; Cavett's experience writing jokes for talk show hosts Jack Paar and Johnny Carson; a disastrous episode writing comedy for inept monologist Art Linkletter; his good and bad experiences doing stand-up comedy; why he believes the talk show he did for ABC from 1969 to 1975 was "the best talk show ever on television"; the advantages of public television; his opinion that contemporary television is "unbelievably bad"; his modest contribution to Woody Allen's film oeuvre and the moment he realized that "grow a penis" is the ideal anagram for Spiro Agnew.
Details
- NETWORK: WHYY-FM / NPR National Public Radio
- DATE: September 24, 1985
- RUNNING TIME: 0:28:54
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R87:0217
- GENRE: Radio - Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: Anagrams; Television personalities
- SERIES RUN: WHYY (Philadelphia, PA) - Radio series, 1975-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Daniel Miller … Co-Producer
- Terry Gross … Co-Producer, Host, Interviewer
- Amy Sallet … Associate Producer
- Dick Cavett … Guest
- Spiro T. Agnew
- Woody Allen
- Johnny Carson
- Art Linkletter
- Jack Paar