I actually had the honor of meeting Mr. Cavett in the men's restroom of an Applebee's food chain establishment in Santa Rosa, CA and found him to be on the contrary rather terse and if we're being totally honest here: downright cagey. To my profound disappointment he showed little of his trademark wit during out interaction (despite me really teeing him up) and he refused to shake my hand (multiple times).
Griffin Taylor Seems like it fits the over-the-top, unreciprocated come-on when women are around: masculinity issues. It is a disappointment though, for anyone who's ever seen his intellectual brilliance in action.
Griffin Taylor I don't think so. He was primarily a talk show host; might of gotten a bit part in one or two productions, but not much more than an extra. It would surprise me that Kirk Douglas would be lacking in the social skills area. Michael Douglas is his son and they've both had leading roles in scads of movies. Ben Hur comes to mind.
One hour and eleven minutes plus commercials. I could never imagine a talk show pulling this off with one guest these days given most people's short attention spans. .
Woody Allen is very self deprecating about his clarinet playing, but he is actually very, very good. He said around 2012 that he was not a good player, but he must have been brilliant by then.
Thank you, a great interview. I had just watched "Whatever Works" and only realized by Woody's playing that he must perform the clarinette in most of his movies.
Many thanks for publishing this. Got me through one of the strangest May 1sts that I ever saw. It's midafternoon in southern Indiana and the sky is so overcast that it's very dark outside. What the? It rained hard briefly several hours ago, but it is not raining now.
He's actually a really accomplished player! He has composed and played a lot of tunes in his films I think. It's like his secret other life. Paul Reiser too - he even wrote and played the theme song for Mad About You!
Genetically, men have the hair pattern of their maternal grandfather. At around the age of 25, the type of testosterone changes to a type that causes them to follow their grandfather's hair pattern...
Cavett did not rule. Carson owned the time slot by a ratio of five to one. Cavett was one of the courtiers; Carson was king. Cavett was interesting; Carson got watched.
"Cavett was interesting; Carson got watched." How perfectly that sums up the nature of popularity. You don't have to be the most interesting, the most creative, the smartest, etc etc to be the most popular. You have to be a lot closer to the middle of those categories to appeal to the widest audience as most people are, by nature, mediocre. By the way, this is not meant as an insult to Carson.
Two very different people playing to extremely different audiences. Well...some of us watched both. There is nothing quite like either of them today, alas, but thanks to this odd medium we can appreciate them anew while people, whose parents were not yet even zygotes at the time, can discover them.
jose chocoza Just so you know, it’s really kinda considered derogatory to refer to them as “Jew decedents”. It would be better to say “Jewish”. For instance, you wouldn’t say; “so-and-so is a Jew doctor”; it would be: “So-and-so is a Jewish doctor”. Although why mention the doctor’s religion or ethnicity at all, really. Woody Allen’s accent is old school Brooklyn, like I said. Nothing to do with his “religion”.
I love these old interviews with entertainers that are truly unique and legendary. Great channel. Did your parents our yourself have this show on VHS or something. Very cool and retro. Nobody in these videos are talking about facebook or their Twitter feeds. Nobody even has a phone in there pocket. Pong was probably the top selling console lol
When I look at a show like Cavett's, from around this time, I can't help but feel that networks weren't fully seized of the possibilities that color TV brought. "Say, how about we make everything shades of brown?"
the clothing, the hairstyles, the fact almost everyone was thin back then (not just not fat, but not worked out) and also the video quality from the 70s give that overall impression.
Being an adult was something the culture valued back then. Childhood wasn’t an exalted status before the 90s. Therefore, people didn’t work to look as young as possible. The way we want to be seen today is wholly the result of advertising over the past 30 years and boy has the culture paid a price! I know so many 30 year old children today!
I kow Allen really well from albums and movies but never seen this. This is really great to see friends working the medium to have a chat - many of theAllen jokes I know and seeing Cavett tee them up is cheesy as I look now, but I love seeing that he does it - their implied certainty on stuff like cholesterol and Freud is dated IMO
Does anyone think that, when he starts the intro on James Bonds most loathed class of wood wind, he's gonna get a serious 'Tears for Souvenirs' vibe kicking off?
All these years later Woody Allen still plays at his favorite haunts. I heard him being interviewed by Alec Baldwin ‘Here’s the thing’ Podcast …. He’s a little bit more reserved nowadays, but still very interesting.
Please do not confuse possessing genius with being a great person. He is a comedic and directorial genius. Do you think that Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Picasso, Beethoven or Willie Shakespeare were the most well-rounded hunmanists of all time?
Laughs. In responce to humanists i agree. You should see thus emanuel. I am not in appearance nothing of interest or alarm. And. I freely, can and DO, walk among you without notice. Its a great trait. Buddah, left fathers palace, as did i. And there's nothing to assimilate that I am that man. Unless one looks carefully, one will see the scars and marks that so long ago, branded me woody on the cross. Unless of course, Soloman (son of man)..he also befell the road to poverty over riches. Now, as a voice crying out in the wilderness,your home of America the American revolution, battle of the wilderness that was to come. Think on this. I spoke Aramaic. The land of milk and honey America the pecularities of this name is also paramount. Signs and wonders. Aramaic-America. Here's wisdom. Every eye shall see me. (eye-PHONES). CZcams.= you to be. ..WOE WOE WOE...WWW. I come quickly. .COM. sees the signs. Soon. A great earthquake comes children. Be prepared. I stand up soon. And a mighty sign comes all who receive this warning. You see a night illuminated by an unnatural light. Be prepared for the Angels mounting on your dark luna, 440,000 will ascend upon the earth. And you will see a great War begun. Behold. I am. I was. and I come quickly. WATCH. - Jess Saes UV ( JesUs saVes)
(9:40) - Woody's casual comment that he would much rather die on a show in a prime-time slot than on one such as this, which aired late at night, and had, by all accounts, pretty dismal ratings, seems to have passed this audience completely by. This interview is chock-full of nuggets like that. I have lost count the number of times I have rewound this particular tape. >
He always seemed like of those people that people like because he's already adored. If you looked at it objectively he would be considered average but for some reason he's at the top and people like him which feeds other people to like him by default. Its odd.
He is from a time when originality still existed and considered that which others studied to better themselves....that is a major reason why he is so admired. Likewise I am sure he had someone he emulated and idolized as well in some way.
Adored? I never perceived Woody as that. He's interesting because he's quite hypertensive and neurotic. It may play across as cliched now since it's been over 45 years and in many of his best movies he's played a nervous self-doubting savant but I always found it amusing. He's also been criticized and hated for being this way as well and I can recall the criticism well before his relationship with Mia Farrow and subsequently Soon Yi.
He was liked by the pros, and they hired him to write for them. Then movie companies liked him, and he wrote and directed for them. And from what I saw on this, a very quick funny self effacing mind. Orson Welles said he didn't like Woody's personality at all, but didn't grok the fact that Woody developed his comic persona over many years. It was an act. Same thing with Tom Waits. The other Allen was hard at work creating.
Dick Cavett was an excellent conversationalist. It's a lost art.
I actually had the honor of meeting Mr. Cavett in the men's restroom of an Applebee's food chain establishment in Santa Rosa, CA and found him to be on the contrary rather terse and if we're being totally honest here: downright cagey. To my profound disappointment he showed little of his trademark wit during out interaction (despite me really teeing him up) and he refused to shake my hand (multiple times).
Griffin Taylor Seems like it fits the over-the-top, unreciprocated come-on when women are around: masculinity issues. It is a disappointment though, for anyone who's ever seen his intellectual brilliance in action.
Dreamingrightnow Oh, wait, you know? I think I'm thinking of Kirk Douglas.
Dreamingrightnow Was Dick Cavett in The Bad and the Beautiful?
Griffin Taylor I don't think so. He was primarily a talk show host; might of gotten a bit part in one or two productions, but not much more than an extra. It would surprise me that Kirk Douglas would be lacking in the social skills area. Michael Douglas is his son and they've both had leading roles in scads of movies. Ben Hur comes to mind.
"Play it again Sam" isn't always mentioned as being one of his best but it's definitely one of his funniest.......
"Radio Days" is good too. "Manhattan". My faves are "Annie Hall" and "Hannah and her Sisters". Woody is just great.
I'd heard people say that Woody was a great clarinet player over the years - but HE REALLY IS A GREAT CLARINET PLAYER !
I would recommend the 1997 documentary "Wild Man Blues" which covers Allen and his jazz band during their 1996 European tour.
but Woody considers himself really,really average. He's even said he's like a "weekend tennis player".
One hour and eleven minutes plus commercials. I could never imagine a talk show pulling this off with one guest these days given most people's short attention spans. .
Joe Rogan Experience
"I try to not give the doctor any accurate information about me". I always thought I was the only one.
This guy is just pure genius.
I saw Annie Hall last night. I'm now officially a fan .
what a nice woody person..i love you
I grew up on Allen's movies. He has always been so funny. In this interview he is on fire! 😀
Dude was a fucking comedic machine gun.
Dick Cavett looks made of bronze. No make-up necessary, just a good polish.
Wow. Woody was great at about 40:00 with the band. I had no idea this man played any instrument at all. I loved the selection that was done.
Woody Allen is very self deprecating about his clarinet playing, but he is actually very, very good. He said around 2012 that he was not a good player, but he must have been brilliant by then.
the film clip of the two crucifixes fighting for parallel parking space is fricking hilarious.
Truly awesome! I am so glad you have this video !!!!!! Thank you! I love Woody Allen n Dick !!!
I have never heard Woody Allen play jazz. This show is so enjoyable. Woody Allen is one of the greatest screen writers of all time.
Woody Allen is the funniest man who ever lived
One of them anyway. Combine Lewis and Allen and you have the funniest...
Thank you, a great interview. I had just watched "Whatever Works" and only realized by Woody's playing that he must perform the clarinette in most of his movies.
thanks for uploading ..... had a great time .....
Excellent conversationalist, comedian, and not a bad clarinetist either! Enjoyed this, Adrien. Thanks.
Many thanks for publishing this. Got me through one of the strangest May 1sts that I ever saw. It's midafternoon in southern Indiana and the sky is so overcast that it's very dark outside. What the? It rained hard briefly several hours ago, but it is not raining now.
Glad you got through your difficult time. I have had many myself.
Yeah
i feel WITH you
some days are REALLY hard to live thru........
So Great !!!! Thank you.Real Comedy. :) :)
Damn, those guys are 84-85 now...why did they have to get old?!!!!!
Who knew Woody Allen could play a clarinet so well. Makes sense considering all the music in many of his films has a clarinet in it, e.g. "Sleeper."
He's actually a really accomplished player! He has composed and played a lot of tunes in his films I think. It's like his secret other life. Paul Reiser too - he even wrote and played the theme song for Mad About You!
Where have you been? He's played clarinet in a dixieland band every Monday at Michael's pub in NY for 5 decades
Allen on top form here.
really tight for sure
This was a remarkable interview.
Bravo, Woody ! Looks like the great Bill Watrous on the trombone with Woody's Dixieland ensemble. Fabulous !
It's like Woody was balding back in the 60's.....but it never has happened. 😕
Oliver Kalamata His bald spot got progressively large and he receded a bit more, but yes he kept most of what's seen here.
Genetically, men have the hair pattern of their maternal grandfather. At around the age of 25, the type of testosterone changes to a type that causes them to follow their grandfather's hair pattern...
it's called a bald spot.
I heard him confess to several hair transplants.
Money fixes everything.
Well Dick, I was 8 yrs old and 9 less than two months later so may not have gotten the jokes but you are THE best.
"Earth mother, sexual kind of animal" lol the Earth mother part had me dying
pity I'm not from 1971 i would marry you woody
what a weird time when two Nebraska dudes ruled talk shows
Cavett did not rule. Carson owned the time slot by a ratio of five to one. Cavett was one of the courtiers; Carson was king. Cavett was interesting; Carson got watched.
"Cavett was interesting; Carson got watched." How perfectly that sums up the nature of popularity. You don't have to be the most interesting, the most creative, the smartest, etc etc to be the most popular. You have to be a lot closer to the middle of those categories to appeal to the widest audience as most people are, by nature, mediocre. By the way, this is not meant as an insult to Carson.
Two very different people playing to extremely different audiences. Well...some of us watched both. There is nothing quite like either of them today, alas, but thanks to this odd medium we can appreciate them anew while people, whose parents were not yet even zygotes at the time, can discover them.
Dick Cavett and Johnny Carson were both from Nebraska.
Q: What does the "N" on the Nebraska football helmets stand for? A: Nowledge!
Woody is a legend. Also, truth always wins sooner or later.
Brilliant show.
Allen said in his book that he and Cavett were and are really good friends.
They use to pal around together in NYC.
Both are brilliant.
SO GOOD!!!
Woody Allen - one of the greatest writers, comedians and directors - many don't have the intellect to recognize his wonderful abilities.
312vandal your comment just further proved Ron’s very accurate statement. Congratulations!
+Pesky Echo still better than you
I love Woody Allen's movies.
Such a funny guy. Love his movies.
Great encore
Bravo
OMG. Did anyone see the closing credits? Marshall Brickman, co-writer of Annie Hall, was creative director on Cavett's show.
I remember watching Carson. I'm 36 now. But i wish i saw cav. So intelligent
Cavett ... what an attendance and elegance 💚💙💚💙💚
Cavett looks like a bronze statue
Handsome dude.
The talk about dying on set is creepy given how someone would die on set on the Cavett show later on.
It is a standard phrase, not creepy.
Woody among the greatest, what great entertainment
"Eminence of our generation."
Woody is incredible.
That accent is.. incredible.
I'm a Jew and sometimes I envy that accent, haha!
He's old school Brooklyn. Now Brooklyn is mostly hipsters from the suburbs...
that accent is incredible. Guess you don't get around. It's a NY accent. How un cultured.
Amy heckerling and richard faynman have similiar accents, both jew descendence, one from The Bronx and the other from Queens
jose chocoza Just so you know, it’s really kinda considered derogatory to refer to them as “Jew decedents”. It would be better to say “Jewish”. For instance, you wouldn’t say; “so-and-so is a Jew doctor”; it would be: “So-and-so is a Jewish doctor”. Although why mention the doctor’s religion or ethnicity at all, really. Woody Allen’s accent is old school Brooklyn, like I said. Nothing to do with his “religion”.
It has occured to me that Andy Dick has made a career for himself out of one long impression of Woody Allen.
Very good musician
I love these old interviews with entertainers that are truly unique and legendary. Great channel. Did your parents our yourself have this show on VHS or something. Very cool and retro. Nobody in these videos are talking about facebook or their Twitter feeds. Nobody even has a phone in there pocket. Pong was probably the top selling console lol
Dick Cavett was a class act.
Dick Cavett ..a Golden Boy in human form.
When I look at a show like Cavett's, from around this time, I can't help but feel that networks weren't fully seized of the possibilities that color TV brought. "Say, how about we make everything shades of brown?"
Woody was a Comedy Genius.....
Robby Combs *was*, is he dead??
Woody Allen is a comedic genius.
woody have same glasses after all these years
they're back
Funny.....how ppl looked older than their age,back then.
the clothing, the hairstyles, the fact almost everyone was thin back then (not just not fat, but not worked out) and also the video quality from the 70s give that overall impression.
Yes, because we often stereotype those outdated styles to the elderly of today.
Being an adult was something the culture valued back then. Childhood wasn’t an exalted status before the 90s. Therefore, people didn’t work to look as young as possible. The way we want to be seen today is wholly the result of advertising over the past 30 years and boy has the culture paid a price! I know so many 30 year old children today!
I was married two times once and then once again
Martin Hyizna 😂
At the credits in the end, it says "Marshall Brickman : creative director". Marshall Brickman co-wrote "Annie Hall".
6:32: - "I deflowered the girls flower" - risqué and clever and I'm sure he'd like to.
"A sister named in a paternity suit?"
I’m laughing so hard
I kow Allen really well from albums and movies but never seen this. This is really great to see friends working the medium to have a chat - many of theAllen jokes I know and seeing Cavett tee them up is cheesy as I look now, but I love seeing that he does it - their implied certainty on stuff like cholesterol and Freud is dated IMO
woody is the man!
Does anyone think that, when he starts the intro on James Bonds most loathed class of wood wind, he's gonna get a serious 'Tears for Souvenirs' vibe kicking off?
All these years later Woody Allen still plays at his favorite haunts. I heard him being interviewed by Alec Baldwin ‘Here’s the thing’ Podcast …. He’s a little bit more reserved nowadays, but still very interesting.
He's still hilarious. I love that man.
especially when it comes to sex.
"The maid will drop a sandwich under the door". Poor baby. His life seemed to be so tough.
Hey, how many people in film crews are surviving because he writes?
Woody Allen is a hoot .
DC looks so sweet he must have been made up with melted Toblerone...
Please do not confuse possessing genius with being a great person. He is a comedic and directorial genius. Do you think that Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Picasso, Beethoven or Willie Shakespeare were the most well-rounded hunmanists of all time?
He is a great genius as well as a great person.
Falsely accused. I know what you're getting at.
Laughs. In responce to humanists i agree. You should see thus emanuel. I am not in appearance nothing of interest or alarm. And. I freely, can and DO, walk among you without notice. Its a great trait. Buddah, left fathers palace, as did i. And there's nothing to assimilate that I am that man. Unless one looks carefully, one will see the scars and marks that so long ago, branded me woody on the cross. Unless of course, Soloman (son of man)..he also befell the road to poverty over riches.
Now, as a voice crying out in the wilderness,your home of America the American revolution, battle of the wilderness that was to come. Think on this. I spoke Aramaic. The land of milk and honey America the pecularities of this name is also paramount. Signs and wonders. Aramaic-America.
Here's wisdom. Every eye shall see me. (eye-PHONES).
CZcams.= you to be. ..WOE WOE WOE...WWW. I come quickly. .COM. sees the signs. Soon. A great earthquake comes children. Be prepared. I stand up soon. And a mighty sign comes all who receive this warning. You see a night illuminated by an unnatural light. Be prepared for the Angels mounting on your dark luna, 440,000 will ascend upon the earth. And you will see a great War begun. Behold. I am. I was. and I come quickly. WATCH. - Jess Saes UV ( JesUs saVes)
Allen looks like one of the Hanson Brothers in Slapshot
Dick looked so young here. He aged rapidly after this.
Dick Shawn died on stage during his act, and people at first thought he was kidding
Probably because he always looked down after every joke. He just looked down a little too far that time.
Alvie Singer over here!
Television used to be good!
Christ, the contrast between these 2 is like Mutt vs Adonis....I didn't realize how handsome and sexy Dick Cavett was...Jesus! I need a cigarette!
Sounds good to me!
Meanwhile, never kick you guest, below the knee...
Quella del nonno travolto dalla balena è fantastica 1.03.20
01:00:20 Bet he regrets that line after all the stuff that has happened since then.
Quella del nonno travolto dalla balena è fantastica
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
Interesting to notice, how cholesterol scare propaganda was starting to take place.
Boomer
He's obviously a hypochondriac
(9:40) - Woody's casual comment that he would much rather die on a show in a prime-time slot than on one such as this, which aired late at night, and had, by all accounts, pretty dismal ratings, seems to have passed this audience completely by.
This interview is chock-full of nuggets like that.
I have lost count the number of times I have rewound this particular tape.
>
he is pretty woody young....falling in love ...
His suit is the same color as the background lmao.
I'd rather die in prime time if I can!
lol he has on saddle oxfords
Yes I thought I was the only one notice that
Haha Boyle's Law is pressure of a gas = K/volume but I like his definition better.
40:19 Very well done.
omg Theragran
I now want to pick up my Hagsmeister guitar and invent SwedishTragedy on my Interocitor.
(Metal.. Duh)
Were his hands kinda shaking while he was playing?
He always seemed like of those people that people like because he's already adored.
If you looked at it objectively he would be considered average but for some reason he's at the top and people like him which feeds other people to like him by default.
Its odd.
He is from a time when originality still existed and considered that which others studied to better themselves....that is a major reason why he is so admired. Likewise I am sure he had someone he emulated and idolized as well in some way.
Adored? I never perceived Woody as that. He's interesting because he's quite hypertensive and neurotic. It may play across as cliched now since it's been over 45 years and in many of his best movies he's played a nervous self-doubting savant but I always found it amusing. He's also been criticized and hated for being this way as well and I can recall the criticism well before his relationship with Mia Farrow and subsequently Soon Yi.
He was liked by the pros, and they hired him to write for them. Then movie companies liked him, and he wrote and directed for them. And from what I saw on this, a very quick funny self effacing mind. Orson Welles said he didn't like Woody's personality at all, but didn't grok the fact that Woody developed his comic persona over many years. It was an act. Same thing with Tom Waits. The other Allen was hard at work creating.
TheRealSpoony Bob Hope in 1940s movies was one inspiration for Woody Allen -- he says so in books by Eric Lax, about Allen's life and work.