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elleng

(130,849 posts) Sat May 11, 2013, 01:38 AM May 2013

Missing: Jonathan Winters. Badly. Dick Cavett

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/missing-jonathan-winters-badly/?hp

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Missing: Jonathan Winters. Badly. Dick Cavett (Original Post) elleng May 2013 OP

Wow! Cavett really nails it. longship May 2013 #1

Winters was one funny guy. mgc1961 May 2013 #2

Great read...Thanks! Flashmann May 2013 #3

I'm mourning Winters, but I miss Dick Cavett as well Bluenorthwest May 2013 #4

I miss Cavetts old comedy radioshow. marble falls May 2013 #5

Very few of the "good old" comedians needed vulgarity to be riotously funny. xtraxritical May 2013 #6

longship

(40,416 posts)

1. Wow! Cavett really nails it.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2013, 03:37 AM

May 2013

R&K

mgc1961

(1,263 posts)

2. Winters was one funny guy.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2013, 09:05 AM

May 2013

He's the kind of comic for which I will sit through a whole movie rerun just to see him in one supporting scene.

K & R

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)

3. Great read...Thanks!

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2013, 09:12 AM

May 2013

I've always been a huge fan of both Mr. Winters and Mr. Cavett.I'll always watch or read anything with or about either.Both is almost a high!

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

4. I'm mourning Winters, but I miss Dick Cavett as well

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Sat May 11, 2013, 09:17 AM

May 2013

Both men were immeasurable influences on me growing up.

marble falls

(57,063 posts)

5. I miss Cavetts old comedy radioshow.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2013, 10:54 AM

May 2013

xtraxritical

(3,576 posts)

6. Very few of the "good old" comedians needed vulgarity to be riotously funny.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2013, 01:54 PM

May 2013

It's not the same these days, but with Republicans supplying all the material what do you expect?

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