Dick Cavett Show - John Cleese (19791012)

Flat Earth Society - a global movement :-)

John talks about a point in history that has come around today.

There was a time some 40 years ago as a boy gradually absorbing all that PBS had to offer. Seems to have gone from beyond to understood to irritating to watch because of lack of preparation and research. So much praise in these comments for a Nebraska boy that seemed so desperate to be respected by the New England intelligentsia.

I almost never looked at these comments because i thought most of them would make reference to the height difference, which i find cheap and pathetic. (I'm talking about the difference of well over a foot, perhaps a foot and a half.) You get that sort of thing so often—the moment the host shakes hands with the guest eclipses the hour-long talk that follows. Surprisingly, there's no mention whatsoever of the diminutive Cavett looking like a boy being taken to his first day at school by his dad. My faith in humanity has been restored.

And let’s not forget The Firesign Theatre.

I really didn’t think he was gonna mention Biggus Dickus when he was going over the characters, and then he just glossed over it and the audience didn’t laugh, they didn’t know what was so funny about the name Biggus Dickus

Cleese is superb.

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you from Sydney, Australia.

Python sucks

Brilliant discussion! So intelligent and funny!

Zero to cringe in 20 seconds. Nobody beats Dick Cavett at awkwardness.

Under all the wit and intelligence of Cavett lurked an insidious liberal cosmopolitan 🤔

The movie does not make fun of Christ, much less the teachings. Many cultural critiques and challenges were and are dismissed, degraded and intentionally taken out of context. Love has allways been difficult.

His joke about how we cannot try and not offend flat earthers aged like fine wine. Back then who would have imagined such idiots would actually try and be taken seriously today.

So it's always been like this, only now is more amplified and weaponized.

These two are fun and entertaining to listen to

Cleese picking at his fingers was disrtacting buti it was a good interview.

Is this just me being weird but you never see the interviewer on the left with the interviewee (if that’s a word) on the right……🤔

Cavett has a brilliant sense of humour...it's Dick's dry delivery that is often over most peoples heads. Marvelous!! And thank you to Mr. Cleese. You're genius is unsurpassed. WOW!!! 1979. John was just turning 40. In his prime for sure. Thanks, from Tim in Ontario, Canada.

Cavett is always a year or two behind the times and quite the dullard as far as interviews go. Really obvious questions, old points of view...juts a really old man, even when he was 30.

Explaining the Peter Principle, named for Professor Parkinson. Everyone gets promoted to their level of incompetence (well, unless you push back of course)

Cleese's comments about offending people are more relevant than ever.

All this was before Kazantzakis book was turned into the the movie "The last temptation of Christ". Caused quite the stir iirc

This is what an interview show should be like. Michael Parkinson should have been taking notes. Cavett was a master of his craft, and it really was a serious craft for him.

Flying circus was the name of a pop combo in Australia in the 70s

John Cleese is very funny, especially in Fawlty Towers, but as for Monty Python, I can take it or leave it. Maybe it's difference between the British senso of humor and ours, but it just wan't that funny to me.

So, why is there what looks like a penis that has been run through a pencil sharpener complete with balls in the corner, is that an FU to all of us?

its funny, he said it would be sad; men dressed as chickens in their old age. they did a special python show at the O2 venue in their old age. it was nt sad it was excellent.

Cleese was one of the best comedians of all time and 100% British. Later he would loose the comic spark

So relevant bow

Bloody BRILLIANT!

Richard Alva Cavett


19 de noviembre de 1936


86 años (87)

John Marwood Cleese (Somerset, 27 de octubre de 1939) es un actor y comediante británico, conocido por haber sido uno de los seis miembros del grupo cómico Monty Python.

When I took the Advanced Placement English exam I was required to defend something controversial. I chose to defend this movie since I said it was not about religion but about the environment at 33 AD. So I got the top score 5 even though I had not actually seen the movie but I just heard a lot about it.

The fact that they eventually started parodying each other is the most brilliant shit I've ever heard

Simply wonderful. Two of our funniest and most intelligent entertainers.

"So many touchy people get offended by MP, but what do you guys think of, say, US preachers on TV?" "Punishable!"

Funny how Cleese moves his chair such that he looks even larger in relation to the diminutive Cavett. It's as if he's about to envelop him.

My, how the "perpetually offended" switched from the right to the left since then... Any time a conservative tries to speak at a US campus it's canceled by threats or you need 100 cops

I find the Dick Cavett Show the only American interview programme worth watching.

I'm halfway through this and I have to say as entertaining as it is there ARE some parts that are depressingly relevant even today!

One of the Monty Python was American.

One of the big parts they cut was Otto the Nazi Jew. One of the most important bits of footage looking at the world today. Astonishing to say the least.

I'm offended

The left back then was about freedom of speech. About questioning and mocking everything, especially those in power.

Look at them now.

Two very funny and intelligent men...thanks for this