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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

Dick Cavett

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
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Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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