American - Entertainer | November 19, 1936 -
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
Dick Cavett
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I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.
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I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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