It never crases to amaze me how disrespectful Dick "Ass Rider" Cavett is to the Sensational Bobby Bittman. Bittman is a True Comedy Genius and I mean that Sincerely.
@@blueabattoir Bobby is so Talented that he makes Lola Heatherton's nipples Elongated. You know, as mentioned in Bobby's Outrageously successful book, "The Complete Filmmaker," a filmmaker makes films. The Complete Filmmaker does more. I think that sums up Bobby's talent in a Nutshell..... A Giant Massive Nutshell. 😂
"How wonderfully inane." "I thought so, yes." Classic. Moranis captures Cavett's self-serious, condescending prick down pat. And of course Levy is gold as the obliviously unfunny and sleazy Bittman. SCTV was gold.
Shame on cavett for his condescending way with the multi-talented bobby bittman. If you didn't take tea on the upper east side with a nobel laureate in literature, cavett had no time for you. I worked security at the manhattan ziegfeld and caught him and Beverly sills sneaking out the side door only 10 minutes into the premiere of lola Heatherton in "My Fair Funny Lady Girl." Wouldn't know talent if it bit him in the ass.
I've been a fan of SCTV since I was a kid in the early 80's, but I'd never seen Rick Moranis do Dick Cavett. He was good! By the way, I think Krusty the Clown owes Bobby Bittman for stealing his laugh.
It does sound similar! But Krusty's voice is based on Chicago television's Bob Bell, who had a very raspy voice and portrayed WGN-TV's Bozo the Clown from 1960 to 1984.
I always fall over laughing at 01:54...."and do you know why I directed it Dick??--Oh please tell us" LOL--Bittman doesn't realize that Cavett is being condescending to him
As usual, the crew from up north nails us dead to right. Cavett always was a pompous twit, but he did manage to elicit great interviews from legends like Groucho and Hitchcock. If you can get past his overcompensating vocabulary, he usually made it about the guest on not himself, which other late night egos like Bob Costas and Tom Snyder often failed to do.
Rick Moranis focused on the serious, "intellectual" face of Dick Cavett, but Cavett was also a comedian who liked to joke around with his guests. He wasn't nearly this pompous, hence the comedy. Bobby Bitman on the other hand was always an egotistical jerk.
I was born in 78. I wish I was more of an adult at that time so I could understand more of what they were talking about. Who people were. But what I got out of it was that it was some very funny stuff.
