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I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

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