Dick Cavett Net Worth

Dick Cavett's Quotes

• Anyone who steals another comic's material should be sentenced for life to reading Aristophanes to the O.J. [O.J. Simpson] jury.
• I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation "Ms.," which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense.
• There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
• [on Stu Hample] He was a great appreciator of comedy. He was an extremely funny man. He could be funny in a good stand-up comedy way in your living room. or walking across the park. And he had a prodigious memory for comic literature and could quote whole routines--with the accuracy they deserved.
• [on being a talk-show host] It's a wonderful job for people who have never had a nervous breakdown and have always wanted one.

Interesting Facts about Dick Cavett

1. Born at 1:24am-CST
2. Was an actor in army training films.
3. Was a talent coordinator, and later writer, for Jack Paar's TV show. Appeared many times on talk shows as a stand-up comic.
4. Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 99. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
5. Early in his career he applied to be a page at NBC's Rockefeller Center studio in New York City but was turned down.
6. Suffered from manic-depressive disorder, since his freshman year at Yale University.
7. Grew up in Lincoln, NE.
8. Was a gymnast when he was younger.
9. The Phil Silvers Show: Bilko's Godson (1959) was his first appearance on TV. During an recent interview he recalled how during a break in the shooting, he approached Phil Silvers and said, "I know there's no way you'd remember, but I saw you in ['the Broadway show] 'Top Banana' and went backstage and you gave me an autographed picture." And without a moment's hesitation Silvers replied "What's the deal, kid, you here to give it back?".
10. Announced November 9, 2010, on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show with Don Imus, that he had married Martha Rogers "about a week ago in New Orleans".
11. Appeared in the 1964 US Army "Big Picture" film, "Thayer of West Point" as a cadet enumerating the new rules that Superintendent Thayer was implementing, such as no valets or other servants to be employed by cadets.
12. Inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 1991.
13. Insisted that the proper/technical way to pronounce his surname is "CAY-vit"/"cave-it", not "Cav-vet" as it commonly is.
14. He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Annie Hall (1977) and Forrest Gump (1994).
15. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) aired on five networks for over 35 years: (1) ABC daytime (March 4, 1968-January 24, 1969) (originally titled "This Morning"); (2) ABC prime time (May 26-September 19, 1969); (3) ABC late night (December 29, 1969-January 1, 1975); (4) CBS prime time (August 16-September 6, 1975); (5) PBS (October 10, 1977-October 8, 1982); (6) USA prime time (September 30, 1985-September 23, 1986); (7) ABC late night (September 23-December 30, 1986)' (8) CNBC (April 17, 1989-January 26, 1996).
16. Jimmy Fallon wrote the foreword to Cavett's book "Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks" which was published in 2014.
17. Though they graduated one year apart from one another, he and Sandy Dennis attended the same high school in Lincoln, NE, and were in plays together.
18. Is of German, Welsh, English, Scottish, and distant Irish, descent.