Don Rickles Dick Cavett 1972

hi dicks guess our Don Rickles Beverly Sills Phyllis Kirk Pearl Wilson and Bob Rosengarten and the orchestra ladies and gentlemen Dick Cavett [Music] that's very nice it's bad luck to stop applauding on the 13th but if you want to go ahead maybe do it through the holes I got done Rickles backstage so I've got to keep moving he set the guests are anxious that I get him out here first time I first I've ever saw the Alpo dog in tears backstage frightening when great humorous and comedians gather late at night over coffee and cheesecake to pay tribute to those among them who have scaled the heights and brought the art of public performing to its zenith one name I suppose stands out above all others and it's a talent so unique and so special and so brilliant that in the pantheon of the world's great comics this man's name will surely be written among the greatest the incomparable Dan Rickles [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm so sorry about that it's done do matter no one sees this anyways [Applause] I just want to say I let my enjoyed misses you a tremendous thank you well that's it for me good wonderful timing was great I've worked a B seat I understand that they they plan to put a wall around this whole place and make it a studio I've been with ABC and I know I spoke to Elton rule about you - oh you're gonna love it on the island it's good to see you little dick well it's good to see you I'm sorry to hear you were ill I I heard the head little laryngitis well yes I'm working in the Copacabana which is a one of the last of the saloons and when the cigar messages go up you just sit there uh got all the supper club guys in the front gun is funny get rid of those yeah you keep moving with those kind of guys you know I don't know laryngitis say something I don't picture you having I mean oh I really don't care what you pictured then went went when did you have your own clinic I don't I mean the nerve of a disease to attack your famous throat well when you work on the Copacabana it's a great great saloon and I love being in New York and you really gotta go wall out the people are great mr. Jews Fidel talks like me and he hasn't even had laryngitis yes he said to me last night he's a great man he's some 70 odd years young you know and he's full of life in sprin he said last night and he said if you wait a car you Club you're calling people I I would have item in a paper and I said fine you tell him you're wrong you're on a hook in the kitchen to Chinese cook going I really I really love to watch you work but then I've always liked Jacky Leonard so how can you hit a short guy Jacky lenez ago I always get ribbed about that you know that Eeyore's real we are we are completely different jack is doing very well he's in Las Vegas with his family and we always rib each other about comparing as you're doing opera I'm sure people compare you and as long as you're successful in doing well it's great it's when you're struggling and they try to wipe you out then it's rough you know yeah saying that before you came on how hard it must have been at the very beginning before people knew who you are and what kind of comic you were yeah well you know to suddenly walk into a club and is this guy insulting everybody well when I was really before my time having to be very honest because today I do the things that there are today and I was doing that 20 years ago and it's funny how people say yeah he says terrible things he wipes people out you know and all I do is laugh at ourselves and I think there's ways of some people saying gee he said some offbeat words and what-have-you and I think it's in the eyes of the beholder in the sense that the best way I can describe what I do my father estação and you were very close to your mother and I'm very close to my family to my dentist and so he was the kind of a man that put his arms around a woman and when he did it wasn't dirty and there were other guys that give a woman a hug and right away at the party your wife's looking over at the husband going Charlie get out of here you know so it's the way you do something now being on this show like I I tell a dick from the bottom of my heart I never liked you you can't be serious you're an annoying little guy that's right type the hangs around the health club in the corner with the towel ask you not to mention that that's terrible no III know it's hard for you to be serious but it is but people don't admit that deep down inside if I may be serious for a moment that you do something on the stage that all of us would like to do if we had no class all right why did you all turn on me like the guy in the front here in the hockey puck sweater went crazy the one derelict yelled at that guy white people we will we always make jokes II I'm always open to being attacked constantly because her if you get on the old story if you dish it out you have to be able to take it but as far as being serious I'll tell you you have to take your work seriously we all become a certain character when we walk out on a stage I've people said to me what does it like get home to my wife you know when I have a lovely Jewish wife in fact she's a monk she was supposed to come with me today but she couldn't get off the bed the jewelry was too heavy well it will delve into your private life a little more oh this station break [Music] huh oh you can tell him if you like those uh Beverly and I were planning to leave that's a wonderful a minute alight hit the light hits your face you blossom and bloom it was great dick well we have to you know yeah you're not exactly the guy out picked to go to the New Year's Eve party with you know he always picked you at New Year's Eve alone in the corner with a spoon of ice cream going Wow first don't light it up for very perceptive say are you gonna be doing a new television series or your old one again well I was on ABC and that took a hike ah hey I was on CBS and a guy came over and when I suggest you go through did a ceiling rested in Bob wood is a good friend of mine in fact he started his car today and he wasn't around anymore well Bob wood has been very good to me CBS I had my show on ABC which was a complete catastrophe because working for ABC knelt and rule and all the gentlemen are good friends of mine the problem is they couldn't chip in to get any money for the show and we were appearing in a forest one guy with scotch tape and a lamp going let's try it again charlie now you know that you and I know a BA is a big Network they had a storm yesterday in the whole set one out there was one guy on the roof at the ABC building on is the wind okay al so and CBS has a big organization in other words when you fail there they a buzzer rings in your room you go so I was around NBC yesterday and the guy at the gate said go away but Chloe they were not special on CBS which I'm thrilled about because we we had a show on us as I say on CBS and unfortunately that didn't make it because I have to be what I really am and unfortunately on the ABC adventure that we had with Pat McCormack our mutual friend right uh we didn't have the right format when we went on CBS they wanted to try to make Don Rickles appears something I'm really not a charming adorable man uh but you are a good actor well thank you and you managed to appear that once or twice during the during the series Thank You Todd trying to give you a cup you're starting to get on my nerves okay hi Polly oh hi so uh we uh we have decided to do what we do best and that is to laugh at people make fun of life and bring this guy forward in this and this particular special that we're doing going to do for CBS I think the real Rickles will will come out oh that's right now talking to you is kind of the regular Rickles which would only help me win a trip to Hawaii with the wife I mean coming out being charming and nice you only get on the Monty Hall show and win a cookie you know so I have to be what I really am yeah this whole front row Here I am when I am the man on the end take a look at that man oh I don't know who you are but you're a bad-looking man look at that the lady when he knows you no I'm kidding no one ever just don't look down there no one has ever really could seriously and invited you out into the alley afterwards heavily declared yet but it was ridiculous we danced for about an hour I mean you know many many years ago I worked in smart supper clubs in Jersey when I walked out and called somebody a dummy and the voice went oh what I was in the alley and my tie was over here no not really uh-huh I always have blue cross and a fast cab to secret so people pretty much knew I was joking those that didn't ask me to leave you know I worked up in Montreal once and I left with a hockey puck in my mouth it was a fast engagement yeah but I was pretty lucky I mean I've I've had people that have been offended and I've had people that loved me but I'll tell you in anything you do I'm sure it's that way in Opera if you just go the ordinary line and just have the general approach you'll be the average guy if you believe in what you do and you cause excitement you're gonna get people let's say I love them or I can't stand them and so beer there's one thing I really do wonder and that is do you actually think before you speak most of the time or half the time do you actually hear what you've said as you say it or do well no I think in a nightclub on television I think on a talk show such as this you monitor yourself instinctively you know because you just don't have the complete freedom that you really want in a nightclub I I go with a performance but whatever's in front of me that night is what inspires me but it's so fast that there Kent there's not an instant of thought and it comes right out yes it's very good day anybody got a lolli subject it's so fast you want to stay up late tonight dick put on your pajamas and have hot cocoa I taught her to him I feel like I want to go to summer camp and sit there I'll try to change moods it's kind of fast and exciting yet dick well I remember your act you know had that great beat you know hmm you were like Jimmy cut yeah of course Reuben blue type then you know but they call the shishi you you know while the violin is playing you can look up at him drink have dinner leave and he doesn't even know about I never played the Reuben blue eye with that type of a form of the low low key with the same is that what we call it well you know yeah we're a writer you know you've given a shot at everything mm-hmm after this it's you know where to Sir anyway oh we have to stop and wind up again we'll be right back scary [Music] how old were you when you first started to notice girls oh I think as I fell on the hospital table I tend to overboard in that area as a young man that's a question we all you know that the last Oh what is it called the last motion picture show uh what was the name of that movie that one that you can check out these Tuffy's what's the name of that little aspect to shake last picture later on we're gonna when you hear the bell go to geography mother see there's another movie I'm asking him a questioning one I know you're not supposed to do that that's not on the list no wait there says here young comedian doesn't ask question no there are two movies with a similar title as well glass reminded me of that young way of life I don't know far as girls I've always I was as all guys that are supposedly aggressive or loud which I'm well hey okay I am but ah I got married very very late in life I was 38 years old and searching desperately and my wife was well I don't want to give a rage away she could you know fall over or something but she I met her as a as a secretary and I said she was my in fact she was my picture agent secretary and I was down to nobody I was going to dances you know with women that had shoulder holsters you know I was hanging around with girls that like to do a lot of dippin you know Benny Goodman was playing the tango we all danced so I used to go and I met I met my wife when I'll never forget it and she's a very as you could imagine you always marry opposites attract they say you know and I came up to my picture agent and I said I said to miss I'd like to see my picture agent she said what is what that's why she talked no one what is your business what is it regarding I said it's regarding I want to buy meat what does it regard I want a job and she said crudeness isn't going to let you win and I married her now we just sit around the house and I go why well she gave me two wonderful children they're wonderful kids one gave them to you oh yeah well I I helped out I put on the robe encircled her circle they never mind none of us over one day and she went what a miracle worker ah but see that's what I mean about being restricted on television I should be able to someday to speak right out and say it like it it said what you really meant right he'd really been right and the show would be ahead instead of this la-dee-da stuff we'd have the whole world listening instead of four guys in Elko but it is televi what age were you when you had your first homosexual experience hey it's there it's there very high on 7-eleven he was a tall cowboy from town it started out he came in the room and went you started I hope you have an ending for this Center I will you tempted me the most awful things will pop into my head so would you be high to me a really good sure I don't mean in a crude way in a vulgar way I mean if I really could talk about you know thank you are you married Beverly yes oh good then you understand on I certainly did I thought thing with mother away so much you never got a chance to I gave up sucking my thumb a long time ago okay Beverly [Applause] this could be a long night wouldn't it be wonderful if he showed up in your audience some Night at the Opera that's all you would need in the middle of I admire opera stars Jan Pierce's my only claim to fame II he's sang at my cousin's Bar Mitzvah you know that you would know you wouldn't know about that that's you know your crowd doesn't have that you know you just let the girls put on white dresses and hop around the church for now we make a whole ceremony and come up with envelopes with a lot of gifts and you know a lot of cake and qihoo and wine and jam Pierce was there singing Keith oh hey Keith Louie it's a cookie don't worry about when we take over the world and you're a prisoner you leave plenty of now the black man up there when he ain't gonna take over the that's only a joke no III know what Larry is fellas why don't you get in touch with Paul Winchell and work on his lap [Applause] I'm sorry I my muscles it's okay your muscles are so well too bad but we take a hot bath and watch your duck friend well he and I talk very nicely we came out it started out so great and then you started in with homosexuals and what happened it set Beverly and ruined my whole day yeah I'm gonna grab you by the legs and make a wish oh I think I think I've herniated my diaphragm which ever use an ointment will go away I know let's listen we have let's try to tape her down here I believe it's Wilson's coming out and you know the pace he says he's in the back playing with the pages of his book waiting for the wind to come up I well it will lower that to the tempo a little bit more ever say Dickie you're gonna do some Theatre in the round things is that actually theater and run suggests plays are you gonna we'll have you have you ever done in the room yes I think it's fantastic seriously dick I have you ever done that no I never paired nerd give it get out of the house at all come right from here back to your house and I even read two articles about him with his wife he married Lamont Cranston nobody sees his wife I understand she sits in a house it opens up the drapes it goes that's a nice man Beverly lovely knows your wife yeah oh well when would we get to meet her I mean it's a whole mystery we never see in fact nobody ever sees you he hangs around in front of the plaza hotel at night st. to the policemen anything happening but we're gonna do it around we're gonna be at San Carlos as a matter of fact in San Francisco starting G what's the date I forgot anyway and then we're gonna be in Chicago May 1st yeah yeah what are you doing we're gonna do a show Peggy Lea and I am just thrilled about that it's gonna vary with me and the Westbury Long Island here for two weeks and then we're gonna be in Washington for a week and previous to that victim own and I will be in San Carlos and then in Chicago two weeks in Chicago and one week in San Francisco and I just love the feeling of the round because it's like a real house party and it's a hard ticket and people come like in opera to see you in saloons they do come to see you but there's a waiter's and there's the Busboys saying you aren't there I thought you went to water right right like you're saying good evening and it's a kind of funk on that do or didn't I get some of the napkin that came here for me and one guys in the hall a cook going I got a cook and he's making all that money it's a long night but you are gonna appear in the room I'm glad because I'd like to see it's great C work I saw at the Copa one night it was just side-splitting I must say once a year the Copacabana and I hope saloon I like and I call it something like the Copacabana stays forever hope mr. Podell goes what goes on forever really because that's the last of the so-called nightclub I mean the Americana Caterina Valente by the way so marvellous are Diana Ross at the Waldorf but it's more of a sort of a she's she kind of an atmosphere there the nightclubs what I call per se is the Copacabana are we making money to plummy are never them making money to survive is it well I don't think there's enough seasoned performers around acai I think I know how badly feels better but it's very difficult to throw a new talent into the Copacabana I mean that's a tough hard nightclub audience in Haiti they want to laugh in you but why is there not a cultivation of more nightclub talent the way they used to be there was a time where there were dozens and dozens of nightclub even here right in New York I think it'd be such a big business you know at one time it was more of it we could work in the mountains you know the old expression today it's the Concorde or Philly green woollen it's a great deal of money and they haven't got time to let the the guests you know pay a great deal of money when they go there and it's no longer the atmosphere of the gia bring out a guy for 50 dollars and let him be funny and do impersonations I think it afforded the old economy has changed to go up to do the Opera nights at those places right and I Rea under the better team that travels all around the country they're very good well Kathryn Grayson Howard keel are now appearing in Las Vegas which is nice to see that kind of your kind of field in Las Vegas I wish you'd come to us well I don't have that kind of talent oh I really don't I mean but it should be acting in it she was well perhaps for a night but the sound of a voice like mine first of all won't take a microphone cuz then it'd be it big the noise really and I don't mean this immodestly or modestly I mean the noise becomes oppressive there's got to be a let up and with a high-pitched voice constantly singing into a microphone and the voice is too big for the microphone anyhow it would be very irritating I couldn't listen to a soprano just screech away all night it would not be fun well if you ever do please come to the riviera cuz that's our home and I'm sure that Harvey Surbiton editors they would love to but I come visit when you're there please joking and your husband will be there my wife will be there will we work something we'll be right back [Music] [Applause] Oh Don yeah hold on yeah and it's it's May first you're in San Francisco and May 19 in Kakaako we didn't want people showing up in the wrong City here in Chicago May 9th I just wanted you to know that my next guest somehow got transplanted from the Midwest you know Earl if I may say so the great part livin out in California now the pulse of New York because Earl is syndicated we which is very true we only know the show business talk and what-have-you from Earl's column I mean ed Sullivan our mutual friend writes here in town and that which is great but I mean Earl goes around so in the Los Angeles herald-examiner we read her old and religiously because we would know what was happening which I think Earl is the last of the Broadway fellas so to speak and Sullivan to give out information don't you find that late-night talk shows keep you in touch with New York too pretty well what's going on no I watched the movies mostly waiting history question about what does sound of Sullivan react to all those things you say about Ed Sullivan passed away but nobody notified him and things with that count well like your world you know he doesn't know he's there you only know ed setting him kid around I always make a thing with Earl you know like you say hello whirling you figure you read all about these stories that they write in the paper and then you meet men that are kind of reserved they're both reserved your cereal is a very quiet guy and so is that in the two of them on New Year's Eve sit together and they watch a lamp go but you know but yet they're great writers yeah that's about it for me dick maybe you couldn't drop your pants and fire a rocket don't you don't have to be perfect all the time no dick you take these little naps and arles glasses of fogging we're barely sitting over here waiting for the gown to come off it's getting hot in here we have a message we'll be back I'll toss back in this I spend so much time talking about it beforehand how did they talk about it afterwards I mean are you sorry that anybody didn't get recognized that should have or do your friends so you see I I mean I'm not folding any of the choices because they were all marvelous choices but I was disappointed because Clockwork Orange didn't get nominated for something I thought it was a marvelous film and I happen to be a Stanley Kubrick you know freak it what he didn't get nominated for you well they got nominated but it wasn't chosen for anything got nominated for oh yeah for many things for Best Writing Best Picture yeah all kinds of things and and I really thought that it should have won something and it didn't win anything and that upset me because I am a Stanley Kubrick fan and a freaky fan as a matter of fact I have seen dr. Strangelove which was made by sanic Kubrick 14 times and uh what did you think of dr. 14 times so what did I think of it yeah everything that a lot is riding on this answer did you like dr. storm yeah I liked Erika strange laughs you did well that's good because one of the things I carry around with me at all times is a little black book and I put in that little black book the names of people who did not like dr. Strangelove right that's what they didn't like dr. Strangelove and what that era my know these people decided yet I haven't decided that's how you picked your friends but that they like whether or not that I talked to Strangelove I may send the ones that don't like dr. Strangelove to Don Rickles right and let him take care of speaking of Strangelove we're done and you work together once on a show it wasn't even one of the Thin Man no what was it episode of the fires one I had a terrific memory my honesty yet did you tell me yeah I did not no no of course I don't tell him that no it was very funny one night I was in Las Vegas with with Warren my husband and we went to see Don Rickles who I would go 82 miles to see as I would miss SIL eighty two months yeah at least eighty two I mean on foot with my cave okay okay what are you a highway patrolman never and and when we got to the show somebody had told Don that I was in the audience and Don stood up into this whole big stick about a marvelous lady who had been terribly kind to him as a fledgling actor and i sat there like a dummy I didn't know what he was talking about and the next thing I knew he said Phyllis Kirk and he said I had a job working as a guest actor on the thin man you know and then made me stand up so I am the mother of his acting career right well what she didn't tell you was that which is a long involved story I played the part of Eddie a cab driver it was my first show and I arrived at MGM in a rented 1938 convertible Chevy and drove right into the wall then I went into the studio and the dog Astra who she said Phyllis at that time said I am Peter Lawford at that time was running around following Frank Sinatra's voice or something i sat in the room in his album under his arm anyway uh so we uh we had Phyllis on the show and they all told me gee that's a there was a big hit shown as it did you know get to know Phyllis and Peter they'll make it easy for you and you better be nice and don't get around a nice you know I was a wreck I had trouble with hire and they brought out asked her how to do this scene with the dog and there's the truth and what am i lyin and the dog was muzzled and our trainer came out with rubber gloves and a helmet and they said the dog won't hurt you and Phyllis said he's just an adorable little Fox Terry anything but the dog worked on commands with a ball a little squeezer ball I'll never forget it and I was supposedly knocked out when I came in the door by Peter Lawford accidentally and I'm laying on the floor not command the Astor was supposed to come over and lick me in the train when titi the dog came over and completely took off my sport jacket half my pants and I stood down I went oh he's gonna eat at you and that was your debut that when Peter Lawford said to get him a new jacket I gotta meet Frank in an hour did the did the dog live kick your dumb dick there really a dumbbell dick I'm sorry has become very commercialized and what a funny thing in the old part of Jerusalem every it's exactly as it was 3,000 years ago and enter the eye to the casual observers eye when you come in it really does look exactly as all the paintings and and and and photographs that you've ever seen of the old city but the set dressers for this movie we're running around frantically trying to hide little television antennas I mean in the middle of this 3000 year old section their television antennas and lightbulbs and shutters and all kinds of things that unite us Olympic it was in October we were there over Christmas if you'll find exhibition that's all right here your name was taken for that remote we call it Hanukkah Beverley deserted us no it's the same thing only we don't have a tree we went we were that isn't offended we were there I uh on a holiday also order which is simcha to Torah simplest tourism kosterow right I feel left out well you can join up if you go for the operation that sort of joke is based on an erroneous assumption we'll be back after this message [Music] thanks Don Rickles Beverly Sills Phyllis Kirk Earl Wilson this is really a fun show for me to do tomorrow night Cesar Romero Louise Lasser the Preservation Hall Jazz Band from New Orleans Nicholas KITT tree I wrote a book about being different and some famous Charlie Chaplin film did I make it good night see [Music]

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Published: Sat Dec 03 2016