Word: jokesmith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Best joke of the year from a man not previously known as a jokesmith: Gerald Ford's assurance that "Ronald Reagan doesn't dye his hair; he's just prematurely orange...
...this obsession that exegesis saves? God forgive that pun." Cavett was of course show biz obsessed. He met Carrie Nye McGeoy, his future wife, while acting in a New Haven amateur production. After graduation he hung around Broadway theaters, cadged a job with Jack Paar as a jokesmith, wrote for Johnny Carson and tried his own nightclub act as a stand-up comic...