Dick Cavett Biography

Fast Facts

• After college, worked as a copy boy for Time magazine
• Unsuccessfully applied to work as an NBC page, but later became a talent coordinator for NBC talk show host Jack Paar
• Went on to write for Paar and Johnny Carson, as well as Merv Griffin and Jerry Lewis
• Made his stand-up comedy debut at New York's Bitter End in 1964, and later performed on the Tonight Show, the Merv Griffin Show and the Ed Sullivan Show
• Has hosted several different talk shows---all titled the Dick Cavett Show---on ABC, CBS and PBS, among others
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• Cavett Elementary School in Lincoln, NE, is named for his father and stepmother, both teachers, as was his mother, Erabel