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Ontario... You wouldn't happen to know any local VHS collectors? It's a bit of a change of subject, sorry about that! But I've been trying to find a TV program last aired by TVO in the 1980s. Just trying my luck!!

Well, Mr Cavett was a writer on The Tonight Show for both Jack Parr and Johnny Carson. He was good friends with Groucho Marx and he also briefly had a go at stand up comedy so yeah, he definitely had a sense of humor

and as for importing too much British culture ... they took to the English language quite readily ... aside from a few odd spelling errors ...

Imagine if even half of people talking nowadays would care to have a respectful, genuine conversation like this. Yes, it sounds like an old cliché but you cannot find me one instance of such an exchange in any major television network, I'll bet. It's funny that we live in the age of communication yet it has only enabled us to exhibit our worst instincts to each other (such as tribalism) rather than discover, connect and learn, if you look at the big picture in any general-access platform.

@@anneroy4560 and yet turned their back on hundreds of years of common law. Odd.

@@tukkek Civility is a much maligned value of late

Obviously very lazy markers. There wasnt an awful lot that was historically accurate about LoB t6he same as there isnt in the bible. The gospels arent history. The fact they are flagrantly at variance with one another is a hint.

Fun fact: Some of the evangelists weren't even apostles. Somehow I find that weird.

Yeah! The earth-flat believers and the new generation that finds offence at everything…

"Always look at the bright side of life!"

@@Bebtelovimab 🤭👍

Theres nothing depressing about depression. Embrace the misery.

@@zapkvr I'm too depressed to bother embracing anything.

I think that a lot of interviewees respected Cavett because he was well-read, did his research into his interviewees' work, asked thoughtful questions, allowed a whole per guest and let his guest speak without interruption.

That sort of attraction to intelligence is called "sapiosexuality." I'm quite sapiosexual myself. A woman who might not be conventionally beautiful is extraordinally attractive to me if she's well-spoken and knows of what she speaks or writes. There's almost certainly a similar term for physical attraction to one with a well-developed sense of humor, but I don't know it.

It dates back?

John…Marwood😄…Cleese.

Cavett is 5'4" ...

I always tell people that taking offense when I did not intend to give offense is stealing and stealing is wrong.

Really? I tend to tell them to f off.

Wow, how profound 😂😂

And they do not even have a website where one can purchase mugs / t-shirts etc. I so want one ... laughing like mad here ...

Certainly "winterval" is an interesting case; a form of "straw man", i.e. to shoot down with glee.

Yes it did, they made training videos for decades, the company still exists, but I think Cleese eventually left/sold it.

@@TheMontyPythonMuseumOnline thanks👍

@@BeesWaxMinder PS The ultimate irony is that they later re-made several of those training videos to be more inclusive - in the oldest programs the women just served the tea etcetera. John is dead set against any of that now, but I don't think he ever realised that he was being woke very early on.

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What about interviews from countries where the writing direction is opposite?

I’ve never seen one. What about countries where the writing is vertical? That would be a challenge….

@@CraigMaxwell-gz3vw I suppose that would give new meaning to the term "upper class".

What about all the desky ones? Letterman, O’Brien, Jimmy Kibble et Al?

He was cured of his unfortunate condition many years later. :p

To be precise, an infant from the planet Dada, adopted and raised by American parents.

@@TheMontyPythonMuseumOnline It's people like you what cause unrest 🤭.

Is that so? How about book banning then? That particular part of the right wing movement doesn't care too much about freedom when it comes to books.

​@@TheMontyPythonMuseumOnline No, it's the left wing which bans books and entire science papers. 1. When science papers show that most ["between-legs conversions"] are a social fad, the papers are WITHDRAWN (Brown U, 2018, Virginia Tech 2023). Not because of science, but because they "upset" people. We're back to the times of Galileo, where "upsetting" science is shut down, except now by lefties :) 2. Amazon, with a lefty mgmt has banned all books & items featuring the South flag, books that question [between-legs conversion] and anything that may "encourage" [light color] nationalism (very vague) 100s of books banned by lefty Amazon, far more than anything in US school libraries :) 3. Lefty sites now shut down ALL their comment sections because people contradict the state-sanctioned official lefty "narrative" :) 4. I, and many others, must use workarounds in YT comments (see above) because lefty YT will delete anything challenging lefty views. Did you know any of the above? Of course not. You live in a lefty media bubble, where lefty censorship is just ignored. As you're a loyal supporter of the lefty political and cultural establishment, and you hold all the correct, state-approved views, the lefty censorship will never affect you, so you'll never "see" it :)

Dick Cavett wasn't a dimwit, he was pretty sharp, his interviews with people like Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier are very good, I don't think John Cleese is a great intellect, don't be fooled by his English accent, it makes him sound smarter than he really is.

@@christoph404 I think you mean his English pronunciation. England has myriad accents. I have a Teesside accent and am not a great intellect, just a humble genius.

Cleese attended the University of Cambridge ... you need to be quite intelligent to get a place there ...@@christoph404

Cavett attended Yale & Cleese the University of Cambridge ... neither place is careless deciding who can attend to study ...@@christoph404

​@@christoph404How do profess to know the extent of John Cleese's intelligence? To whom do you compare him, and by what criteria?

Mythology is amusing.

I think he said, "Blessed are the cheesemakers"

2000 years and counting.

Let's not go at @camelot507.

Every sailor knows that when performing celestial navigation, one must never depend on stars that are less than 20 degrees above the horizon. Otherwise, atmospheric refraction can displace a star so much in the sky that non-sailors are likely to end up in the wrong stable.