Playboy Interview: Dick Cavett

Playboy Interview: Dick CavettTake all the talk shows in the world and place them format to format on a continuum ranging from trenchant debate to plastic escapism. Then take all the talk-show hosts and line them up lip to lip, with relentless inquisitors at one end and vacuous buffoons at the other. At the point where these, two lines intersect—somewhere near the mid-point of each—there are very few shows that carefully combine serious discussion and comic relief, and attract an audience of mil...