Dick Cavett on watching his younger self with Groucho Marx in 'Groucho & Cavett,' an episode of 'American Masters': 'It really is good seeing myself in something that took place that long ago at the age that I am there and realizing how good I was.'
said in 1968 when introducing his comedic idol on an early iteration of Cavett’s legendary talk show.
Cavett shouldn’t be astonished, of course, because he was very, very good. It’s why the late critic Clive James wrote, “Cavett ruled as the small screen’s most sophisticated talk show host from the early 1970s onward.” Accessible enough that Cavett once asked Davis on the air how she lost her virginity, and after the audience’s laughter settled down, Davis proceeded to tell the story.
“Sometimes I wonder how that happened,” he says. “I didn’t give a damn about rock music, and yet I hit it off with them.” Cavett’s friendship with Groucho famously began at the funeral of the writer George S. Kaufman. Cavett introduced himself afterwards and the two walked down Fifth Avenue as Groucho “insulted doormen” along the way. Where did that Marxian impulse to throw the first verbal punch come from?
“I don’t know,” Cavett says, “I hate to say he admired education, but the fact that he had a friend who went to Yale probably meant something, and he kind of liked the way I talked.”
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