ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
A Yale University graduate who originally worked as a stand-up comic, known for the intellectual nature of his material, Cavett became better know as an interviewer, still renowned for his interviews with Groucho Marx, Katharine Hepburn, David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Here's a clip of his opening monologue for a late night talk show he had in the 1970's.
[For more details on Dick Cavett, check his listing in Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cavett], but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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