Title: Inept host, feeble guests
Review: I thought I might be able to recapture some of the original pleasure of watching the Cavett shows, but I was terribly wrong. In contrast to the wit he seemed when I was a kid, he now seems like a witless dolt. His jokes are not funny, his questions not perceptive, and he constantly steps all over his guests' attempts to utter pointless gibberish. The DVD notes make a fool out of Sly Stone, and I expected the worst, but compared to the rest of the numbskulls, and to Cavett himself, Sly comes off rather sensibly. It's hardly necessary to ridicule Sly for drug use when Cavett has raved about the wonderful effects of his own electroshock treatments. Interviews of semi-literate musicians by a shallow, self-obsessed host do not make for pleasurable viewing.
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