You can really tell that Jack Paar really missed being on air. He reveled in the attention of a live audience. Cavett was one of my favorite interviewers...so smart and quick-witted and, with Paar knew enough to let him go when he was on a roll.
Agreed re Steve Allen. Stephen Colbert also deserves a spot on that short list, although his show's format often doesn't allow time for enough open-ended conversation IMO. Jon Stewart is no educational slouch either. Both are seriously funny but their incisive erudition shines brightest in long interview settings. This is not to take anything away from Paar and Cavett, who always stayed highbrow and classy.
Jack Paar had so many stories to tell , and he's so humble telling them all with class. Love Jack Paar. And Dick Cavett is simply great and respectful. This is what talkshow should be.
The little old lady at the beginning of the show who Jack is so glad to see and kisses is the legendary Mrs. Miller. She was so ubiquitous in Jack's audience and so many other talk shows that she eventually had to get an AFTRA card!
Mrs Miller's whole claim to fame, was that she was a part of so many television audiences. At the time I couldn't stand her. I'm still not exactly a fan. The woman obviously had too much time on her hands! Now that I'm older, though, I've softened a bit. WTH--If that's what made her happy...
Cavett, who could monopolize a conversation, really pulled back and let Parr just go off on his own. A sign of how much he thought of Paar. And Paar didn't disappoint.
Do you have specific interviews/episodes/guests in mind where Cavett was monopolizing the conversation? I always felt that he held back generally. Paar on the other hand always monopolized conversations - I don’t think Cavett could have taken over even if he tried. Carson couldn’t.
Jack Paar and Dick Cavett,two very witty and urbane talk show hosts. I had the pleasure to meet Dick Cavett in 2011 and I asked him what was it like to work for and know Jack Paar ? His answer , “you never knew what he would say” He was very unpredictable. Thanks for posting this wonderful piece of TV History.
Great show the time DC had Robert Shaw on was a treat and got my wanting more off the cuff conversation that's totally unique especially when did it with Katherine Hepburn without the audience was still just as special
I feel so overwhelmed.. I was born in 61 and they didn’t do reruns back then .. my Dad worked military shipyards .. lights out early so no Johnny till I was older. Jack Paar you are so witty and wicked smaaat ! I grew up in Boston suburb.. I laughed my arse off and Dick Cavett was always the same .. so authentic but he’s guffawing and best eva down home.,, living room chat. I’m gonna get caught up on Mr Paars shows.. he’s a true comedian. Grateful I knew all his references.. I’m getting on and feeling homesick for lots of good things about the good old/bad days. 60s n 70s where not an easy time for US but neither is now. Great show.. thx for posting this gem!
I remember as a boy watching Jack Paar late at night. I hadn't a clue who he was or what they were talking about, but I was mesmerized by him. Years later whenever I found myself in some situation I would break out my Paar imitation and I could get out of anything.
P.S...It is hard to pick a favorite of Cavett's guests but ack Paar is my number one...what an interesting, lovable, honest, decent, witty man. Oh that some channel would run his shows on prime time TV & one's pc's as well. Gore Vidal and Henry Fonda are next.
Good to see someone on t.v. who is genuinely eccentric, not simply trying to get attention. His observations are insightful and also funny. He is simply candid out loud without trying to be malicious.
@@bdff4007 He was grown up for grown ups. That is rarely seen anymore. Both because (sadly) the caliber of adulthood is hardly what it was once, and the media feeds from whatever trough they can. It is a sad cycle of immaturity.
This actually aired 16 May 1972 Thank you very much. This one isn't on the DVD set so I have been missing this trying to complete my full collection of The Dick Cavett Show - Much obliged.
Mr. Cavett is my favorite talkshow host from this era because he seems to put the conversationalists - the guests - at ease and they just have a conversation. It isn’t an interview per se. Mr. Carson could do that, too. I’m just too young and I missed Mr. Paar, but now I want to watch his Tonight Show.
I was a baby when he left the air. I wish I had seen his show he seems like a well spoken man. I grew up on Dick Cavett, Johnny Carson & David Letterman.
Paar was fascinating to watch. You never knew what might happen. He had conversations with his guests. Cavett was calculating, he lacked warmth, but he too had conversations and listened to his guests. The awful people we have hosting now are too interested in promoting themselves. They have celebrity guests, not guests who have substance.
OK, Johnny WAS the king. But Jack was oh so much more sophisticated. My mother, who was about 44 years old when Jack left "The Tonight Show" in 1962, accepted and watched Carson, but she always reminded me that there was no one like Jack Paar. She never got over him.
Just lovely Paar has Harrison Ford looks with genius and wit and wisdom and soul and mystery and pathos and more What a person to have been broadcast abroad!
Dick Cavett was a different kind of late night host, smart and sophisticated. A very intelligent interviewer. I've often wondered what kind of ratings he might have garnered, had PBS given him an eleven o'clock time slot five nights a week. It's too bad that PBS stayed away from anything that passed for commercial broadcasting in those days. They might have had a runaway hit on their hands.
I remember so many moments from his show, ( Winters, Cosby, Oscar Levant, ) and seeing him interviewed by Cavett is a treat! He was quite entertainingly loquacious with Dick, not nervous at all.
Thank you (!) for this video. I didn't know the context in which Johnny Carson took over the Tonight Show... Advertising being 'the second oldest profession in the world'... Brilliant!
CNN is currently running a documentary series called "Late Night" on Sunday nights, which covers that story in its first episode. It's available on-demand.
I agree dumbing down of shows and talk shows.. Ive noticed that young-ins often want to call , “my generation “ .. geezers cuz we have opinions about then n now. Jack said it about his military arrest.. “hey what’s happened to free speech”. Yes your right . we do need help getting up sometimes but we still have something to share and say too. We lived these times.. lettiing my gray hair fly.. Different times.. i think a lot of us respect the now times and generations.. its always the same and as you age you see the pattern repeat .. with parent n kids…. Starting with music.. lol. . it’s not you against me , or me against you,,, let’s not jump on each other because we may see the older days through a different lens and how it’s changed radically for us. Love n understanding is always best when opinions aren’t the same.
THANK YOU for posting this absolutely great show... ack Paar was the best ever on television. I never saw his like before he came on the scene and as there will not ever be another onathan Winters, so too, nothing close to the wonderful, kind and very talented man, Mr. Paar. Dick Cavett was/is great and what a career he has had...his talents and ways, then all he has done for excellent talk shows.
@@pianopappy ...I love this kind of show...this one I watch a lot. ohnny Carson had Mr Paar on in 1973 too for about 35 minutes. Paar is that very rare talent and the most honest, wonderful man. Thank you!
This is the first of Jack's appearances on Dick's show, aired in May and June of 1972. They were actually auditions, testing the water for Jack to return to regular night-time programming. He and ABC struck a deal for Dick to give up three weeks of a month. Two weeks would be a hodgepodge of original dramas, concerts, and news-related shows, one week of Dick Cavett, and one week of Jack Paar's comeback show. As confident and relaxed as Jack is here, he quickly fell apart on his new show that began in January 1973. Before he could get axed by ABC, Paar quit in November.
Paar had myriad personality disorders. But that's what made him so interesting to watch. A complex, smart man who I'm sure harbored his share of secrets.
Wow. I'm too young to have seen Jack Paar on his own show, but I'm taken by how much Johnny Carson resembles him - in humor, delivery - even appearance. No wonder they hired Carson.
Cavett managed Paar well in this show. Jack Paar was famous as a saboteur guest on talk shows: he'd hijack the show away from the host, often spewing out provocative comments on celebrities that he'd been saving up. In later years, he became quite an unwieldy crank; making passive-aggressive comments about Johnny Carson and Steve Allen in interviews.
Paar wondered aloud if Carson possessed a library card. He called Steve Allen "the world's greatest non-authority on humor." As godly pursuit said below, very correctly, it's likely Paar was jealous that he had worked for NBC on the cheap, then Carson made a fortune. Carson's financial gains were detailed in the biography by Carson's lawyer Henry Bushkin. The show went from 90 minutes to 60, then a 5-day work week to 3, for an absurd amount of money even by today's economy. If you believe the bio, like most funny people, Johnny was no barrel of laughs privately.
Looking at this : The difference between Carson and Paar. Carson was like McDonalds . no matter what town you were in , you pretty much know what the menu was like and how it would taste . Paar was unpredictable like the independent mom and pop restaurant . You never knew what you would get and how it would taste , good bad or in between .
Brilliant, hilarious Paar and handsome, awesome Cavett. Historic Paar reference of his shivering, effeminate snowplough being “really gay”, as at that time, Parr was outspoken against gays. Times have evolved.
@@LisaLGruman He said “Dick, did you ever think that Jack was maybe deep in the closet?” That according to Wikipedia. That would help explain his hostile bigoted comments about gays.
@@stevenyourke7901 From the phrasing of the question one can really see that it was initiated by Jonathan Winters as that was definitely his style, which itself was funny.
Notice how Paar takes over the show and tells stories and avoids any discussion about his private life. He tells us nothing about himself at all. He’s putting on a show.
Jack Paar was brilliant and a great story teller. Here's where he flops, interviewing a wide variety of people. Nobody can compare to Johnny Carson. Jack Paar tried to make a comeback and it didn't work. Paar only feels comfortable talking with the people he likes, Johnathan Winters, Judy Garland, Charlie Weaver, his regulars. He didn't like being outside of his comfort zone. He couldn't do what Johnny does. There are times when a guest flops, Johnny makes them relax and he has a way about him that isn't condescending. Paar couldn't let his guests shine. He'd always interrupt and be condescending and belittling with the emotional act that he really is caring. For example, did he have to go on Dick Cavett's show and make him look like a star struck kid. Then he brought up little digs that nobody liked him, that's all emotional blackmail, doing stuff like that. If he really wanted to be gracious, he could of just said some nice things about Dick and go on to something else. Instead, he spends practically the entire show ripping Cavett, and for what? And this routine he always uses with his guests, "You're interrupting me again." That's another thing I don't like. When you invite guests on your show, at least let them shine. Well, that's just how he comes across. However, he made a real big deal over that stupid bathroom story and pushed himself into a corner. He gets emotional about everything. It wasn't a dirty story. It was funny for 1960, but he made it into a big deal. Even the network bosses were telling him to forget it. He's neurotic!
Then push for restoration, in updated form, of the Fairness Doctrine, which all news & such shows had to present both sides & representatives of both sides of issues, or somesuch. But evidently it works. Reagan nixed it in 1987. Biden has already acknowledged the BS of Reagan's supply-side "economics", which is anti-economical.
I just got Jack Parr’s book: I Kid You Not. Eager to read it. He seems fascinating. This was a great interview. I keep wondering if Johnny Carson just happened to have a similar voice and manner as Parr, or was doing a bit of a imitation of him.
I am continually struck by the pitifully small budget Cavett had to work with compared to his contemporaries. At times you could hear sirens from emergency vehicles passing by the studio.
I believe that was because the show was taped in a theater in New York City, rather than a sound-proofed TV studio (such as Carson's Tonight Show used at NBC in Rockefeller Center). However, I can't remember which theater, nor can I find out now with a Google search.
Cavett's ABC show taped at the old Elysee Theater on W. 58th St. in New York. There was a fire station across the street, which is why sirens could be heard occasionally.
This guy was brilliant, the suits decided to silence him, and they did just that. Until this I literally had no idea why he disappeared from the business, that's the systems way of manipulation of the entire process and getting away with it.
Paar was not so humble as people like to remember him. I saw Jack Paar come on Johnny Carson's show in 1986 to promote an upcoming special of his, and after making his entrance, he completely ignored band leader Doc Severinsen (who was sitting in that night for Ed McMahon). He greeted Carson, didn't even acknowledge Severinsen or shake his hand, then turned his back on him and sat down. At first, I thought it was just an oversight by a nervous Paar. But Paar was typically loquacious that night, and right in the middle of one of his run-on stories, he suddenly turned toward Severinsen and said, "Who are you?" Doc looked understandably uncomfortable, and Johnny tried to recoup, saying something like, "You must not stay up very late, do you Jack?" Paar quickly added, "And what have you done with Skitch Henderson?" Skitch, of course, had predated Doc as band conductor on the Tonight Show. Obviously, the message was that Paar preferred Skitch to Doc. I've never seen anybody be so rude on that show. And to a top-drawer trumpeter and conductor like Severinsen. Paar was slick and knew exactly how to time his two-part sting. Being a class act, Johnny glossed over the snub and continued to be respectful to his guest through the end of the interview, though in my opinion Paar didn't deserve it. What a boor.
A shame that Jack's return to TV didn't work out, but then again ABC wasn't exactly CBS or NBC. A bigger shame was messing around with Dick Cavett, ABC should've let well enough alone and just let Dick and his show remain on the air for as many years as he wanted. From the time Cavett went off until Nightline debuted, it was nothing but a mish mash of prime time reruns of awful shows.
if only someone knew how to host a talk show- if only there was anyone interesting enough to be a guest- we are missing the great entertainers of another era :(
This is what late night TV is missing, the fine art of real conversation
So true. 😢
The caliber of adult conversation today is so less than it was and almost teenage like in its immature posture.
i realize it is quite randomly asking but do anyone know a good place to stream newly released tv shows online?
@Eric John Thanks, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) I appreciate it!
@Angelo Augustus no problem :)
Not really what TV is "missing", since nobody watches TV anymore. For long-form interviews, you want podcasts.
You can really tell that Jack Paar really missed being on air. He reveled in the attention of a live audience. Cavett was one of my favorite interviewers...so smart and quick-witted and, with Paar knew enough to let him go when he was on a roll.
The two smartest hosts whoever hosted late night television.
Yes! I agree absolutely.
My dad let me stay up and watch Jack Paar. He was such an intelligent man, and great with his guests.
Though Larry King but before his time I guess
STEVE ALLEN WAS NO DUMMY.
Agreed re Steve Allen. Stephen Colbert also deserves a spot on that short list, although his show's format often doesn't allow time for enough open-ended conversation IMO. Jon Stewart is no educational slouch either. Both are seriously funny but their incisive erudition shines brightest in long interview settings. This is not to take anything away from Paar and Cavett, who always stayed highbrow and classy.
Jack Paar, a rebel without a pause. Thank you for posting this.
Great sentiment!
Jack Paar had so many stories to tell , and he's so humble telling them all with class. Love Jack Paar. And Dick Cavett is simply great and respectful. This is what talkshow should be.
YES!!!
An hour listening to Jack Paar is the best show you could have.
Great to listen to Jack Paar. Happy that Cavett let him talk
The little old lady at the beginning of the show who Jack is so glad to see and kisses is the legendary Mrs. Miller. She was so ubiquitous in Jack's audience and so many other talk shows that she eventually had to get an AFTRA card!
Who was the ABC page? Barry Diller?
She was a "regular" on The Merv Griffin Show both in daytime and CBS late night
Mrs Miller's whole claim to fame, was that she was a part of so many television audiences. At the time I couldn't stand her. I'm still not exactly a fan. The woman obviously had too much time on her hands! Now that I'm older, though, I've softened a bit. WTH--If that's what made her happy...
@@williamanthony9090 Audience lady was Miss Miller. Mrs. Miller was someone else... and something else. th-cam.com/video/fw07CDid0JM/w-d-xo.html
@@williamanthony9090 She was even part of a two woman act in a summer 1976 episode of The Gong Show.
for those of you not old enough, this is what great talk shows were. Two great tv stars who still sound great to me. thank you for this posting.
Agreed. Thanks, Albert.
Except in high school and college, I was sure tired in the mornings when I had to attend school. 😀
Dick was smart enough to clear the whole show so Jack wasn't rushed.
Cavett, who could monopolize a conversation, really pulled back and let Parr just go off on his own. A sign of how much he thought of Paar. And Paar didn't disappoint.
Do you have specific interviews/episodes/guests in mind where Cavett was monopolizing the conversation? I always felt that he held back generally. Paar on the other hand always monopolized conversations - I don’t think Cavett could have taken over even if he tried. Carson couldn’t.
If you want a host who monopolized a conversation Charlie Rose is (was) your man.
I love Jack Parr!!!! Enjoyed every minute of this show!
Parr was a great communicator! I can understand why he was a successful host.
Jack Paar and Dick Cavett,two very witty and urbane talk show hosts. I had the pleasure to meet Dick Cavett in 2011 and I asked him what was it like to work for and know Jack Paar ? His answer , “you never knew what he would say” He was very unpredictable. Thanks for posting this wonderful piece of TV History.
Thank you, Larry, for sharing your experience of meeting Dick Cavett.
Great show the time DC had Robert Shaw on was a treat and got my wanting more off the cuff conversation that's totally unique especially when did it with Katherine Hepburn without the audience was still just as special
It takes a lot to make me watch a one-hour video. I wish this one were longer.
Jack Paar! Ah, the good, old days. Thank GD they saved the footage 🙏
"Here's another one you may not like."
BRILLIANT
I feel so overwhelmed.. I was born in 61 and they didn’t do reruns back then .. my Dad worked military shipyards .. lights out early so no Johnny till I was older. Jack Paar you are so witty and wicked smaaat ! I grew up in Boston suburb.. I laughed my arse off and Dick Cavett was always the same .. so authentic but he’s guffawing and best eva down home.,, living room chat. I’m gonna get caught up on Mr Paars shows.. he’s a true comedian. Grateful I knew all his references.. I’m getting on and feeling homesick for lots of good things about the good old/bad days. 60s n 70s where not an easy time for US but neither is now. Great show.. thx for posting this gem!
I remember as a boy watching Jack Paar late at night. I hadn't a clue who he was or what they were talking about, but I was mesmerized by him. Years later whenever I found myself in some situation I would break out my Paar imitation and I could get out of anything.
P.S...It is hard to pick a favorite of Cavett's guests but ack Paar is my number one...what an interesting, lovable, honest, decent, witty man. Oh that some channel would run his shows on prime time TV & one's pc's as well. Gore Vidal and Henry Fonda are next.
Wonderful! Bring back this type of talk show.
I think it's call a "podcast" now...
Lots of people didn't know that Mr. Cavett wrote for lots of different shows and books
This was a terrific interview with two people who greatly admired each other. A mentor and his under-study. Thank-You for sharing.
This is the first I’ve ever heard or seen of Jack Parr. I’m going to scour the Internet for his shows. He is fantastic.
Paar has to be the best ever and Cavett teeing up Paar for the joke at the very end about the stockings was classic. This is the best.
More Jack Paar! This is great!
I'm searching my attic for more!
Here's some more Jack Paar: th-cam.com/video/PZyNy-8CfJ4/w-d-xo.html
Good to see someone on t.v. who is genuinely eccentric, not simply trying to get attention. His observations are insightful and also funny. He is simply candid out loud without trying to be malicious.
@@bdff4007 He was grown up for grown ups. That is rarely seen anymore. Both because (sadly) the caliber of adulthood is hardly what it was once, and the media feeds from whatever trough they can.
It is a sad cycle of immaturity.
@@MrJoeybabe25 People said the same thing in the 1970s, and especially in the 1960s. Nothing is new.
This actually aired 16 May 1972
Thank you very much. This one isn't on the DVD set so I have been missing this trying to complete my full collection of The Dick Cavett Show - Much obliged.
Thanks for your comment, Smokey. I appreciate it.
Try and change the date on the description :) @@pianopappy
I love Jack Paar.
I remember when he interviewed John Kennedy. It was so funny.
These shows are great and the time flies by.
Why am I watching this at 3am? And I can’t stop watching it. So entertaining.
Best hour of television ~ ever. Two of the very best.Thanks for airing this gem
A tickled Jack is coaxed out to the audience to greet Miss Miller, who was a constant in his studio audience when he was hosting Tonight.
Mr. Cavett is my favorite talkshow host from this era because he seems to put the conversationalists - the guests - at ease and they just have a conversation. It isn’t an interview per se. Mr. Carson could do that, too. I’m just too young and I missed Mr. Paar, but now I want to watch his Tonight Show.
Cavett and Tom Snyder are my all time favorite ever
I was a baby when he left the air. I wish I had seen his show he seems like a well spoken man. I grew up on Dick Cavett, Johnny Carson & David Letterman.
Paar was fascinating to watch. You never knew what might happen. He had conversations with his guests. Cavett was calculating, he lacked warmth, but he too had conversations and listened to his guests.
The awful people we have hosting now are too interested in promoting themselves. They have celebrity guests, not guests who have substance.
Guests back the day actually READ books.
Wouldn't it be nice, to have quality TV again?
OK, Johnny WAS the king.
But Jack was oh so much more sophisticated.
My mother, who was about 44 years old when Jack left "The Tonight Show" in 1962, accepted and watched Carson, but she always reminded me that there was no one like Jack Paar.
She never got over him.
Just lovely
Paar has Harrison Ford looks with genius and wit and wisdom and soul and mystery and pathos and more
What a person to have been broadcast abroad!
Dick Cavett was a different kind of late night host, smart and sophisticated. A very intelligent interviewer. I've often wondered what kind of ratings he might have garnered, had PBS given him an eleven o'clock time slot five nights a week. It's too bad that PBS stayed away from anything that passed for commercial broadcasting in those days. They might have had a runaway hit on their hands.
I remember so many moments from his show, ( Winters, Cosby, Oscar Levant, ) and seeing him interviewed by Cavett is a treat! He was quite entertainingly loquacious with Dick, not nervous at all.
How I wish we could go back.
Me too, Veronica. Thanks for your comment.
Jack Paar was brilliant
And he went on and on.
Fascinating you replied to yourself! However I couldn't agree with you more. He really seems unable to control his impulse to talk.
Jack Paar was amazing!
Thank you (!) for this video. I didn't know the context in which Johnny Carson took over the Tonight Show...
Advertising being 'the second oldest profession in the world'... Brilliant!
CNN is currently running a documentary series called "Late Night" on Sunday nights, which covers that story in its first episode. It's available on-demand.
@@pianopappy Thank You for letting me know!
How far we have fallen -- from Jack Paar and Dick Cavett to Jerry Springer and Howard Stern
@Beachy: you're absolutely right, there's been a major dumbing down in what passes for 'entertainment' today.
Actually Stern gives a great interview.
Easy, old-timer: Jerry Springer hasn't been on the air in 20 years, and Stern is on radio.
@@ACyoutube46 Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!
I agree dumbing down of shows and talk shows.. Ive noticed that young-ins often want to call , “my generation “ .. geezers cuz we have opinions about then n now. Jack said it about his military arrest.. “hey what’s happened to free speech”. Yes your right . we do need help getting up sometimes but we still have something to share and say too. We lived these times.. lettiing my gray hair fly.. Different times.. i think a lot of us respect the now times and generations.. its always the same and as you age you see the pattern repeat .. with parent n kids…. Starting with music.. lol. . it’s not you against me , or me against you,,, let’s not jump on each other because we may see the older days through a different lens and how it’s changed radically for us. Love n understanding is always best when opinions aren’t the same.
If I was able to have two dinner guests.... Jack Paar and Charles Nelson Reilly
Ethics is better than fame. A person who makes the hard choices advances human civilization.
What a great heart. My most favorite show. Jack !!
TV had more interesting content in 1973 than today. Especially for thinking people.
THANK YOU for posting this absolutely great show... ack Paar was the best ever on television. I never saw his like before he came on the scene and as there will not ever be another onathan Winters, so too, nothing close to the wonderful, kind and very talented man, Mr. Paar.
Dick Cavett was/is great and what a career he has had...his talents and ways, then all he has done for excellent talk shows.
Thank you very much, Wally, for your comment. Glad you enjoyed the program.
@@pianopappy ...I love this kind of show...this one I watch a lot. ohnny Carson had Mr Paar on in 1973 too for about 35 minutes. Paar is that very rare talent and the most honest, wonderful man.
Thank you!
Paar was excellent. as was another from his era, Steve Allen, whom no one ever mentions anymore.
Steve Allen was great! Excellent musician and talk/entertainment host.
My favorite shows with Jack were when he had Jack Douglas and Reiko on. I would love to see them again.
And Oscar Levant who had more nervous tics than could be counted. He was a superb pianist and a lovable curmudgeon genius.
this was the Jack Parr show with guest Dick Cavett =)
This is the first of Jack's appearances on Dick's show, aired in May and June of 1972. They were actually auditions, testing the water for Jack to return to regular night-time programming. He and ABC struck a deal for Dick to give up three weeks of a month. Two weeks would be a hodgepodge of original dramas, concerts, and news-related shows, one week of Dick Cavett, and one week of Jack Paar's comeback show. As confident and relaxed as Jack is here, he quickly fell apart on his new show that began in January 1973. Before he could get axed by ABC, Paar quit in November.
That’s too bad.
Never knew that. Thanks.
he IS NOT confident and relaxed here
@@jadezee6316 For normal people, no. For Jack, yes he is.
Perfect...
Thank you for the video.
You're welcome
I loved Jack Paar.
Paar had myriad personality disorders. But that's what made him so interesting to watch. A complex, smart man who I'm sure harbored his share of secrets.
Wow. I'm too young to have seen Jack Paar on his own show, but I'm taken by how much Johnny Carson resembles him - in humor, delivery - even appearance. No wonder they hired Carson.
On another video about Paar, Hugh Downs says, "Jack was not mentally ill, but he was a carrier of mental illness."
I love that.
Cavett managed Paar well in this show. Jack Paar was famous as a saboteur guest on talk shows: he'd hijack the show away from the host, often spewing out provocative comments on celebrities that he'd been saving up. In later years, he became quite an unwieldy crank; making passive-aggressive comments about Johnny Carson and Steve Allen in interviews.
He was really jealous of the money Carson made.
Paar wondered aloud if Carson possessed a library card. He called Steve Allen "the world's greatest non-authority on humor." As godly pursuit said below, very correctly, it's likely Paar was jealous that he had worked for NBC on the cheap, then Carson made a fortune. Carson's financial gains were detailed in the biography by Carson's lawyer Henry Bushkin. The show went from 90 minutes to 60, then a 5-day work week to 3, for an absurd amount of money even by today's economy. If you believe the bio, like most funny people, Johnny was no barrel of laughs privately.
this guy is so interesting.......i could hear him all day......its amazing
Looking at this : The difference between Carson and Paar. Carson was like McDonalds . no matter what town you were in , you pretty much know what the menu was like and how it would taste . Paar was unpredictable like the independent mom and pop restaurant . You never knew what you would get and how it would taste , good bad or in between .
Yeah, like Paar's 'help' didn't quite check the fridge temperature and the shrimp got slimy sometimes...His anxiety is off the roof...
Isn’t that what made him endearing?
Sure! Kinda like sex with different partners? No?...Ooops.
Don't ever let anyone convince you that there's no value in crying, it actually cleanes the soul.
Tears are words unspoken. 💙
I'm sorry that I never got to meet Jack Paar..when he was still with us.
Unable to afford college at the time, I received my BA degree in English watching Paar and the great writers and humorous on his program..
takes more than watching people for an English degree
Any Reason you said this twice? Of course we thankfully have free speech in this country, but repetition can be boring.@@lynnhubbard844
Brilliant, hilarious Paar and handsome, awesome Cavett. Historic Paar reference of his shivering, effeminate snowplough being “really gay”, as at that time, Parr was outspoken against gays. Times have evolved.
Johnathon Winters once suggested to Dick Cavett that Paar was actually gay himself.
@@stevenyourke7901 Interesting.
@@LisaLGruman He said “Dick, did you ever think that Jack was maybe deep in the closet?”
That according to Wikipedia. That would help explain his hostile bigoted comments about gays.
@@stevenyourke7901 From the phrasing of the question one can really see that it was initiated by Jonathan Winters as that was definitely his style, which itself was funny.
Had no idea Jack did not like the gays.
I saw this when it was first broadcast on ABC. What a pity that we don’t have television like this anymore!
Notice how Paar takes over the show and tells stories and avoids any discussion about his private life. He tells us nothing about himself at all. He’s putting on a show.
Fantastic!
Jack Parr old monologue is better than any monologue I’ve heard since Carson left the Tonight Show
Jack Paar was brilliant and a great story teller. Here's where he flops, interviewing a wide variety of people. Nobody can compare to Johnny Carson. Jack Paar tried to make a comeback and it didn't work. Paar only feels comfortable talking with the people he likes, Johnathan Winters, Judy Garland, Charlie Weaver, his regulars. He didn't like being outside of his comfort zone. He couldn't do what Johnny does. There are times when a guest flops, Johnny makes them relax and he has a way about him that isn't condescending. Paar couldn't let his guests shine. He'd always interrupt and be condescending and belittling with the emotional act that he really is caring. For example, did he have to go on Dick Cavett's show and make him look like a star struck kid. Then he brought up little digs that nobody liked him, that's all emotional blackmail, doing stuff like that. If he really wanted to be gracious, he could of just said some nice things about Dick and go on to something else. Instead, he spends practically the entire show ripping Cavett, and for what? And this routine he always uses with his guests, "You're interrupting me again." That's another thing I don't like. When you invite guests on your show, at least let them shine. Well, that's just how he comes across. However, he made a real big deal over that stupid bathroom story and pushed himself into a corner. He gets emotional about everything. It wasn't a dirty story. It was funny for 1960, but he made it into a big deal. Even the network bosses were telling him to forget it. He's neurotic!
According to internet movie data base this episode aired on May 16, 1972.
Paar and Cavett.... let's see Fallon approach this episode within a country mile. We're living in a time so lacking in brilliance like this on TV.
I miss tv being good
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Then push for restoration, in updated form, of the Fairness Doctrine, which all news & such shows had to present both sides & representatives of both sides of issues, or somesuch. But evidently it works. Reagan nixed it in 1987. Biden has already acknowledged the BS of Reagan's supply-side "economics", which is anti-economical.
"I don't vote, it only encourages them" I am TOTALLY stealing that one!
I just got Jack Parr’s book: I Kid You Not. Eager to read it. He seems fascinating. This was a great interview. I keep wondering if Johnny Carson just happened to have a similar voice and manner as Parr, or was doing a bit of a imitation of him.
I am continually struck by the pitifully small budget Cavett had to work with compared to his contemporaries. At times you could hear sirens from emergency vehicles passing by the studio.
I believe that was because the show was taped in a theater in New York City, rather than a sound-proofed TV studio (such as Carson's Tonight Show used at NBC in Rockefeller Center). However, I can't remember which theater, nor can I find out now with a Google search.
Not a budget issue, likely his preference. 99 percent of the audience wouldn't notice.
Cavett's ABC show taped at the old Elysee Theater on W. 58th St. in New York. There was a fire station across the street, which is why sirens could be heard occasionally.
Jack Paar was GREAT! 😂
rest in peace jack parr
Thank goodness Johnny took over!
Cavett was SO classy! And Paar just naturally funny!
So many great,entertaining people to interview back in the day.We have NO ONE worth listening to now.
This guy was brilliant, the suits decided to silence him, and they did just that. Until this I literally had no idea why he disappeared from the business, that's the systems way of manipulation of the entire process and getting away with it.
I think we were cheated, not having Jack Parr on TV for decades….
Watching this video, you see where Carson got some of his mannerisms.
Paar was not so humble as people like to remember him. I saw Jack Paar come on Johnny Carson's show in 1986 to promote an upcoming special of his, and after making his entrance, he completely ignored band leader Doc Severinsen (who was sitting in that night for Ed McMahon). He greeted Carson, didn't even acknowledge Severinsen or shake his hand, then turned his back on him and sat down. At first, I thought it was just an oversight by a nervous Paar.
But Paar was typically loquacious that night, and right in the middle of one of his run-on stories, he suddenly turned toward Severinsen and said, "Who are you?" Doc looked understandably uncomfortable, and Johnny tried to recoup, saying something like, "You must not stay up very late, do you Jack?" Paar quickly added, "And what have you done with Skitch Henderson?" Skitch, of course, had predated Doc as band conductor on the Tonight Show.
Obviously, the message was that Paar preferred Skitch to Doc. I've never seen anybody be so rude on that show. And to a top-drawer trumpeter and conductor like Severinsen. Paar was slick and knew exactly how to time his two-part sting. Being a class act, Johnny glossed over the snub and continued to be respectful to his guest through the end of the interview, though in my opinion Paar didn't deserve it. What a boor.
A shame that Jack's return to TV didn't work out, but then again ABC wasn't exactly CBS or NBC. A bigger shame was messing around with Dick Cavett, ABC should've let well enough alone and just let Dick and his show remain on the air for as many years as he wanted. From the time Cavett went off until Nightline debuted, it was nothing but a mish mash of prime time reruns of awful shows.
Amazing he is talking about the growing level of violence in the tv and fils and that audiences want it. Imagine if he lived today.
I loved jack paar...I have all 4 of his books ...very entertaining 2:33
if only someone knew how to host a talk show- if only there was anyone interesting enough to be a guest- we are missing the great entertainers of another era :(
I'm too young to remember Jack Paar bit he was interesting and funny.
JACK PAAR WAS SUPER CHARMING.
You can't beat Carson! 😃
Parr certainly knew how to tell a story. Very entertaining.
Hey pianopappy, do you have Gail Davies 1980 Austin City Limits performance, including the closing credits?
No.
Love Dick Cavett
Very smart comedy by Jack Paar.Compare him to Fallon to see how far we've fallen.
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I always found Jack Paar to be the #1 member of the Jack Paar fan club. A pompous bore.
18:22 *edit* We will NEVER REALLY hear those interesting things Jack REALLY wanted to say...