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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

Dick Cavett

Age

Now

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

Dick Cavett

Comedy

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

Dick Cavett

Pretty

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.

Dick Cavett

Writing

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Dick Cavett

Want

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Dick Cavett

People

Will

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

Dick Cavett

People

Man

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.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

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.

Dick Cavett

Comedy

Years

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.