Biography for
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Date of Birth

19 November 1936, Gibbon, Nebraska, USA

Birth Name

Richard Alva Cavett

Height

5' 3" (1.60 m)

Spouse

Martha Rogers, Ph.D.	(2010 - present)
Carrie Nye	(4 June 1964 - 14 July 2006) (her death)

Trivia

Born at 1:24am-CST

Was an actor in army training films.

Was a talent coordinator for Jack Paar's TV show. Appeared many times on talk shows as a stand-up comic.

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 99. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387

Early in his career he applied to be an page at NBC's Rockefeller Center studio in New York City but was turned down.

Suffered from manic-depressive disorder, since his freshman year at Yale University.

Grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Was a gymnast when he was younger.

The segment of "Sgt Bilko" called "Bilko's Godson" was his first appearance on TV. During an recent interview he recalled how during a break in the shooting, he approached Phil Silvers and said, "I know there's no way you'd remember, but I saw you in (the Broadway show) "Top Banana" and went backstage and you gave me an autographed picture." And without a moment's hesitation Silvers replied "What's the deal, kid, you here to give it back?".

Announced November 9, 2010, on Imus in the Morning, that he had married Martha Rogers "about a week ago in New Orleans".

Appeared in the 1964 US Army "Big Picture" film, "Thayer of West Point" as a cadet enumerating the new rules that Superintendent Thayer was implementing, such as no valets or other servants to be employed by cadets.

Personal Quotes

Anyone who steals another comic's material should be sentenced for life to reading Aristophanes to the O.J. [O.J. Simpson] jury.

I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation "Ms.," which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

[on Stu Hample] He was a great appreciator of comedy. He was an extremely funny man. He could be funny in a good stand-up comedy way in your living room. or walking across the park. And he had a prodigious memory for comic literature and could quote whole routines -- with the accuracy they deserved.