Dick Cavett talks Jerry while plugging his new HBO doc on Al
Feb 10, 2020 15:51:14 GMT
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Post by aajjgg on Feb 10, 2020 15:51:14 GMT
When did you first meet the man who was then known as Cassius Clay?
I first met him 25 steps from Hollywood and Vine at the theater that had its name changed from the El Capitan in Hollywood’s golden age to The Jerry Lewis Theater. I was a writer there. Jerry discovered me when he hosted The Tonight Show once [where Cavett served as talent coordinator and then writer] and hired me. You may remember the hullabaloo about that show. It was two hours live and the joke was, “What’s he going to do for two hours?” Some of it was quite good. Mostly it was not. He had various emotional problems. If his father showed up in the afternoon, it ruined him for the rest of the day. Strange things like that. Some of the shows he pissed away and some of them—he was a comic genius in his way. I always got along nicely with him. Not everybody did.
www.thedailybeast.com/dick-cavett-breaks-down-why-trump-got-away-with-his-crimes-when-nixon-couldnt
I first met him 25 steps from Hollywood and Vine at the theater that had its name changed from the El Capitan in Hollywood’s golden age to The Jerry Lewis Theater. I was a writer there. Jerry discovered me when he hosted The Tonight Show once [where Cavett served as talent coordinator and then writer] and hired me. You may remember the hullabaloo about that show. It was two hours live and the joke was, “What’s he going to do for two hours?” Some of it was quite good. Mostly it was not. He had various emotional problems. If his father showed up in the afternoon, it ruined him for the rest of the day. Strange things like that. Some of the shows he pissed away and some of them—he was a comic genius in his way. I always got along nicely with him. Not everybody did.
www.thedailybeast.com/dick-cavett-breaks-down-why-trump-got-away-with-his-crimes-when-nixon-couldnt