{"id":90,"date":"2009-01-13T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/?p=90"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:05:25","slug":"my-comedian-hero-dick-cavett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/video\/my-comedian-hero\/my-comedian-hero-dick-cavett\/90\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cavett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-90-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/dickcavettonbobhopeexport.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/dickcavettonbobhopeexport.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/dickcavettonbobhopeexport.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Dick Cavett<\/strong>: He had such a great time being Bob Hope.\u00a0 And when I would get him on a show of mine&#8211; I&#8217;d see him and come on with me and&#8211; of course with Johnny and Jack and everybody.\u00a0 And&#8211; he always&#8211; swapped gags.\u00a0 He had&#8211; got a bunch of gags&#8211; ready and he came on and ready to do.\u00a0 And about current stuff. And I thought&#8211; as many people have wondered&#8211; was there anyone underneath the Hope fa\u00e7ade&#8211; the great comic picture that he was covered with.\u00a0 And&#8211; was there anything under the covers?\u00a0 So I would&#8211; intentionally not steer him into something I&#8217;d knew he&#8217;d do a joke on. Sometimes it was fun, too.\u00a0 As in, &#8220;Were you really a bad boxer back then?\u00a0 And you knew you were gonna get&#8211; I was on the canvas so much they called me Rembrandt.\u00a0 And I was the only fighter carried into the ring.&#8221;\u00a0 He&#8211; he would come right up with them like&#8211; a machine or like a computer.\u00a0 But&#8211; so I would ask him to talk about himself.\u00a0 And I got one show&#8211; it&#8217;s also on the DVD.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the one where I got so conversational with him without his doing gags, that at one point he stated some fact about himself.\u00a0 Oh, he talked to him when he was a kid&#8211; but he got a scar&#8211; the scar&#8211; &#8220;Little scar you can see&#8211; &#8217;cause I got that from protecting my dog. 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