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I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

Dick Cavett

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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Richard Alva Cavett
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