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Coming on 12/27/22: American Masters - Groucho & Cavett

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Offline Moose Malloy

I watched the Cavett show every night as a kid. I got a kick out of old Groucho doing his old schtick  :)


Offline falsealarms

Anyone watch this? I thought it was great, really well done. It's streaming on PBS ' website and their smart TV app until late January.

Definitely recommended to any Groucho or Cavett fans.


Offline Umbrella Sam

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I watched it. I’ll admit, I did have my doubts at first considering it was mainly Cavett himself recounting his memories of Groucho and I didn’t think there would be enough there to sustain an entire documentary, but, as was usually the case on his show, Cavett was a great interviewer who really paid attention to what his subjects were saying and built off of that, and add upon that the fact that he clearly did have a lot of respect for Groucho and you get a really fascinating recollection of those times spent with Groucho. Probably the most fascinating thing to me was learning that Cavett actually did try to get Zeppo on the show; what a missed opportunity, I would liked to have heard some of the jokes that were apparently so funny that they had Groucho on the floor laughing.
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