"What's Wrong With Television These Days...?" | The Dick Cavett Show

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  • čas přidán 29. 04. 2021
  • Dick Cavett welcomes Oscar-nominated American playwright Neil Simon to the show where they discuss whether there is a difference in the quality of television in the 1970s with previous years.
    Date aired - December 14 1977 - Neil Simon
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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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Komentáře • 40

  • @TheDickCavettShow
    @TheDickCavettShow  Před 3 lety +7

    Want to watch more interviews with writers on the Dick Cavett Show? Check out our new playlist here! bit.ly/3xAosNx

    • @alexanders7685
      @alexanders7685 Před 3 lety +1

      Please 1978 episode 69 Diana Vreeland

    • @johnaspinall5457
      @johnaspinall5457 Před 3 lety

      Can you please upload interview clips of the late, great Robert Shaw. He was such an interesting and engaging guest appearing on the show at least 5 times.
      e.g. Woody Allen/Robert Shaw/Beverly Sills/Jacqueline Wexler (29 Dec. 1969

  • @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety
    @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety Před 3 lety +31

    I can just imagine what they would think of TV today.

    • @groupie8985
      @groupie8985 Před 3 lety

      dick cavett is still alive just in case u thought hes dead

    • @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety
      @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety Před 3 lety +3

      @@groupie8985 I realize that

    • @bushlite333
      @bushlite333 Před 3 lety +1

      @@VideoAmericanStyle Older generations like to act like the world is worse now and that it was way better when they were a kid. Nostalgia = rose colored glasses.

  • @wizkidsvideos
    @wizkidsvideos Před 3 lety +9

    Thanks for posting another great Simon interview.

  • @j.4.5.0.n
    @j.4.5.0.n Před 3 lety +10

    It’s crazy because eventually I don’t think people will even be watching television at all. Not that many do today.

  • @thearmchairjournalist566
    @thearmchairjournalist566 Před 3 lety +4

    The era of good interesting interviews. I love this show, Dick is so laid back and brings a natural feeling to the discussion. I wish tv today had more time to have proper interactions, podcasts are good though but without the audience there isn’t the same feel to it.

    • @nkam727
      @nkam727 Před 2 lety +1

      The era of well-spoken English...

  • @Na9rawi87
    @Na9rawi87 Před 3 lety +1

    Watching the show can make you understand how ideas and culture are evolving and where communities are heading

  • @Warp75
    @Warp75 Před 3 lety +16

    All the kids & young ones are on CZcams.
    Television is pretty much finished.
    I thought the CEO of CZcams Susan Wojcicki giving herself the Free Speech award was hilarious.
    It’s like Stalin giving himself a humanitarian award.

    • @Warp75
      @Warp75 Před 3 lety +5

      The human race has gone insane

    • @groupie8985
      @groupie8985 Před 3 lety

      @@Warp75 things change get over it

    • @Warp75
      @Warp75 Před 3 lety

      @@groupie8985 Not for the better unfortunately

    • @groupie8985
      @groupie8985 Před 3 lety

      @@Warp75 for you

    • @Warp75
      @Warp75 Před 3 lety +3

      @@groupie8985 Yeah what a fantastic era we are living in. Berk

  • @utubeDaveutube
    @utubeDaveutube Před 3 lety +1

    At the 4min mark, he's talking about The Goodbye Girl. A classic.

    • @ronmackinnon9374
      @ronmackinnon9374 Před rokem

      To be clear, 'The Goodbye Girl' was the film that had just been released shortly before this interview (1977) -- the one which he didn't think was right for Burt Reynolds (of course, it was Richard Dreyfuss who ultimately co-starred with Marsha Mason in it).
      Whereas much of what they talk about here concerns a project still to come, in which Reynolds would co-star with Mason -- except that that didn't actually happen. Apparently, this was the project that became 'Seems Like Old Times' (1980), which would star Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase instead (things can change unexpectedly like that -- and I can sort of understand why Simon seemed a little irritated with Dick for bringing it up when it was still at such an early stage then).

  • @joandolly847
    @joandolly847 Před 3 lety +4

    I swear if y'all don't post the gloria steinem interview

  • @KawakebAstra
    @KawakebAstra Před 4 dny

    😿inaudible on my iPhone maxed volume ❓

  • @spb7883
    @spb7883 Před 3 lety +1

    00:51 - Now, consider this within the context of our present age with our global audience and you have your reason why popular culture flushed itself down the toilet decades ago.

  • @matejadjedovic
    @matejadjedovic Před 3 lety +1

    Could you maybe upload the Raul Julia interview?

  • @einsteinzvice4737
    @einsteinzvice4737 Před 3 lety

    It's the novelty that gives fresh its ripeness.
    #TruthThruTheRoof

  • @brainflash1
    @brainflash1 Před 3 lety +10

    The laugh track didn't kill comedy, because it's never been used for comedy.

    • @strangersname
      @strangersname Před rokem +1

      Witty comment ;)

    • @brainflash1
      @brainflash1 Před rokem +2

      @@strangersname I liked to think it was.

    • @strangersname
      @strangersname Před rokem +1

      @@brainflash1 I would think it sailed over many heads, but perhaps now...

  • @bendover9663
    @bendover9663 Před 3 lety

    Sounds like Dick's describing people watching Friends.....

    • @ronmackinnon9374
      @ronmackinnon9374 Před rokem

      Of course, this interview was well before the era of 'Friends.'

  • @DeepScreenAnalysis
    @DeepScreenAnalysis Před 3 lety

    American TV back then was so male dominated. The only fleshed out parts for women were on daytime soaps.

  • @Gannooch
    @Gannooch Před 2 lety

    Is this channel ever going to show Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason and/or Art Carney? I don’t have the Decades channel at all.

  • @rooramblingon895
    @rooramblingon895 Před 3 lety +4

    I hate canned laughter with a passion, and hype. I don't mind if something isn't funny TO ME....just don't fake the funny because it makes it 1000 times worse.

  • @Gannooch
    @Gannooch Před 2 lety

    do have 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 part of the main cast? These are rarities much like all the other Dick Cavett shows on CZcams.

  • @famousbowl9926
    @famousbowl9926 Před 3 lety

    Fourth