When I was 14 (1990) I taped “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum” off PBS. Zero Mostel became one of my favorite comedic actors that day
@justa.american8303
11 ай бұрын
Zero has always been a thespian hero of mine.
@SupersonicChip
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant individual...I true delight to listen and watch Zero in this piece as in his others...You could see Dick Cavett genuinely enjoying his presence. Wish there were more of this quality and caliber now...ah the good old days!
@COVIDpanic
4 жыл бұрын
so true. there is a truth to the character of Mostel. He is himself and only ever himself in any part he plays, but is it truly him or the character of him. There is no real distinction. Zero is humble to its extreme or not and eccentric to its most minimum or not. He is better than most and still fewer than one in a googolplex. He is Zero. = which by definition is the epitome of genius. so it goes like this: the representation of numbers varied from tribe to tribe and every nation of people. What could be done to rectify the misunderstanding between peoples and improve trade? The Western Arabs came up with a numerical system based on angles. 1 = one angle, 2 originally looked like a 'Z' = two angles, and so on up to nine, but this is where the genius comes in... up to now no one had a way to represent nothing. The Arabs drew a circle = no angles, Zero! Genius!
@OGRuth
2 жыл бұрын
Thank God for youtube so we can pretend we will live in this beautiful era.
@loganmartin6534
4 ай бұрын
Yea, while simultaneously not having to endure NAM! Just every other WAR😂
@grouchomagic
2 жыл бұрын
He was one of the greatest actors no one knows of today. Too bad...for them.
@suzyflorida1193
5 жыл бұрын
Perhaps the single greatest talk show hour in talk show history with perhaps the greatest performer ever. Nobody could do "Rich Man" better than, or equal to, Mostel's Tevye. It was a crime that he didn't do the movie version. I do wish that Cavett had gotten him to talk about what it was like working with Wilder and Mel Brooks in The Producers. Wilder and Mostel became great friends.
@tomhamilton5261
3 жыл бұрын
The wonderful Zero. The original and best Max Bialystock.
@henrywhenryw812
3 жыл бұрын
He is max😁
@tomhamilton5261
2 жыл бұрын
@@henrywhenryw812 definitely the greatest!
@emmarose4234
2 жыл бұрын
SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!! 🥰
@den-leroykangalee4783
Жыл бұрын
Cosmic individual. The last of our great artist-performers. A mammoth humorist and a genius actor. His personal insights as a socially conscious person and painter alone is marvelous. Peace.
@magoo9767
5 жыл бұрын
You know I really don't know what to say without sounding like a very old person, this may be old, and trite, but it is very true, they do not make actor/performers like Zero anymore, young people will never get the chance ( if they don't get directed to shows like this) to understand how great a talent can be, but maybe it was that generation of performer that created that kind of person, we really will never see the likes of them again and that saddens me and I think should sadden the world of entertainment.
@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou
5 жыл бұрын
MAGOO you know what you remind me of? Every time I masturbate, out comes magoo.
@mysoncrumphaseveryinjury3853
3 жыл бұрын
@@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou your name makes your reply even funnier
@user-te7uz4vf1b
Ай бұрын
You got that right!!!! I was so lucky to see Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof in 1977 right before he died. I witnessed absolute genuis!!!!!!
@Daegdon
Ай бұрын
Such a sensitive, talented man, such good soul.
@hoyboys1000
Жыл бұрын
Zero Mostel - THE BEST! 😃
@Digibeatle09
2 жыл бұрын
Viewing this from Europe - 50 years on from the broadcast (the Cavett Show didn't air in Europe) - what a programme, what a presence Zero Mostel was - only really saw him in the Producers (in which he was brilliant) - greetings to all the New Yorkers (and Americans elsewhere in the States) who would have actually seen Zero Mostel on stage.
@StratsRUs
Жыл бұрын
The Front is also brilliant
@Bopalena
4 жыл бұрын
Oh, Lord, I remember seeing this when it originally aired in 1971 and I've been looking for it on KZitem for ages. Thanks a ka-zillion for posting this true gem!
@mullen25
3 ай бұрын
this is a legend and i enjoyed every second of his chat with Dick and performance. a true original.
@rosemariemann1719
2 жыл бұрын
31.21 : "Impression of Queen Victoria": L.o.l ! 😊⭐😊 He was so funny, ideas flowing, thick and fast...⭐😊⭐ 🇬🇧💕🇺🇲⭐😊⭐
@Teabonesteak
3 жыл бұрын
I'm told this man had ZERO fear. No pun intended. Nobody had dominion over him. God love him💛
@martinhanley9524
2 жыл бұрын
Comic genius
@jadezee6316
2 жыл бұрын
@@martinhanley9524 anyone who could appear in public...wearing that hair....must have had no fear....but that hair doesnt make him a comic..let alone a genius
@ssnoc
3 жыл бұрын
Zero was fantastic -
@weezer033365
3 жыл бұрын
I was in tears the whole hour. Brilliant man.
@bubb5225
8 ай бұрын
when I was in college in the ‘70s we considered him the greatest actor in America. Everybody would have tuned into this show knowing he was on. Three Tony awards.
@Schnoodles46
26 күн бұрын
What genius. Just an utter genius.
@mkofftiger
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for downloading this...it was a treat to hear Zero's voice again.
@waygonedon
5 жыл бұрын
I just saw "The Producers" on the big screen a couple of weeks ago.
@Marionettetc
5 жыл бұрын
God damn, zero is hilarious. Never heard of him before today
@mkofftiger
5 жыл бұрын
Vivid proof that fame is a fleeting thing. Zero was brilliant: wit, artist, performer...a force of nature. Watch the original version of "The Producers" with Gene Wilder. Your life will be richer for his contributions to it.
@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou
5 жыл бұрын
Marionettetc are you kidding? He was the first fiddler to fall off the roof. He set the precedent for all the rest of those tumbling tiles. And he's a distant cousin of mine!
@playitstrange129
2 жыл бұрын
you mean "uploading"...
@MJ-dq8ik
Жыл бұрын
I read a book on Mostel's life - a fascinating, complex, super talented man
@MeanMrMustard85
4 жыл бұрын
What a remarkable individual, a true original
@MeanMrMustard85
2 жыл бұрын
I can imagine, I don’t know where he got the energy from
@johno2655
11 ай бұрын
I have an LP of him narrating The Grinch. I was about 6 when I got it, I'm 53 now. Today, I saw his face for the first time
@BadGuyRants
5 жыл бұрын
Oh my God he was so talented! Great interview🖤
@Joan0414
4 жыл бұрын
This is Broadway gold! This man is so talented!
@ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968
5 жыл бұрын
zero was great as the voice of 'kehaar' in watership down back in 1978.
@jasonbeard4713
2 жыл бұрын
Very underrated film, which I love.
@rolandogutierrez2729
10 ай бұрын
Un genio, lo recuerdo en la pelicula LOS PRODUCTORES
@emmacohen3926
11 ай бұрын
Simply a genius ✊🏻👏👏👏👏👏🇬🇧
@SnowyNightFlyer
5 жыл бұрын
Zero was a one-man Broadway production.
@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou
5 жыл бұрын
And what's wrong with that? He took up most of the stage anyway.
@martinhanley9524
2 жыл бұрын
Comic genius as was Gene Wilder, Don Adams and the maestro Mel Brooks
@sylvestermatera2719
4 жыл бұрын
Zero was a brilliant performer!
@jamieocallaghan9603
3 жыл бұрын
Zero = Genius!
@donalobrien7582
10 ай бұрын
Extraordinary Talent His performances at all time's were absolutely Brilliant. But i adored him Working with Burgess Meredith in Waiting for GODOT. Sorry for arriving at this Presentation so Late.
@gforceeatingcorrect
8 ай бұрын
He was absolutely Hysterical
@danafriedman64
4 жыл бұрын
Just...WOW! This is so amazing on so many levels.
@finrover
Жыл бұрын
Wish we had forces of nature like Zero Mostel in Finland - then and now😊
@magicemperor2420
2 жыл бұрын
So, I glanced away as Zero did the “crazy camera angles” bit, and when I looked back to the monitor, there was his intense closeup, Zeroing in on me! Haha! Had a good laugh.
@geniusmchaggis
5 жыл бұрын
i love zero's Caesar hair...the extreme comb-over the a tail in back...
@kathyferron8461
4 жыл бұрын
The original mullet!
@geniusmchaggis
4 жыл бұрын
@Texas Chainsaw Jesus ah i see...TRUMP is HITLER...very "original"...
@veganvocalist4782
3 жыл бұрын
Texas Chainsaw Jesus 😂🤣
@QuadMochaMatti
7 ай бұрын
@@veganvocalist4782 That sounds like a great name for a mediocre band.
@Mr1930s
5 жыл бұрын
A classic interview!
@davewray9909
4 жыл бұрын
Zero drained the green room dry before this gig...
@davewray9909
4 жыл бұрын
Zero Mosetel's other shining hour, after The Producers is Martin Ritt's The Front with Woody Allen.
@veganvocalist4782
3 жыл бұрын
Dave Wray ahhhhh 😀 thanks for the film tip
@fake_justinscarred2948
3 жыл бұрын
That movie was just on tonight. I came here after watching it... Because of watching it!
@edwin11373
5 жыл бұрын
Sad that six years after this appearance he passed away.
@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou
5 жыл бұрын
I knew Dick Cavett was responsible. This is better than DNA evidence.
@Mrmattlansbury
Жыл бұрын
This was perhaps the greatest interview I have ever seen! They, quite frankly, do not make them like this anymore.
@philsooty5421
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant funny man who owns anyone's show!
@user-nw6qp1ki2n
4 жыл бұрын
The 😀 Best 😆 Spontaneous 🤣 Comedian 🤓 Ever 👌🏻
@ricksteves1973
10 ай бұрын
this man was way ahead of his time and would have throven in the internet age
@davidhaber5304
Жыл бұрын
Saw him in fiddler when I was a young teen. Unreal. Mesmerized
@7karlheinz
Жыл бұрын
I remember Bobby Rosengarten's picture in the Slingerland Drum Catalog. but, I never heard him before. His fine stage drumming is especially evident in this Cavett episode. Zero was, great, of course.
@postatility9703
Жыл бұрын
Yes,and his work on the obstetrician sketch was fabulous !
@lenfirewood4089
Жыл бұрын
It's only after seeing Zero's appearance on this show that I finally understood that when Zero played the role of Mr Bialystock he was more or less just being himself! So the larger than life character was actually played by a larger than life actor! I love it!!
@stephenperretti8847
2 жыл бұрын
Zero is very talented. But, under no circumstances could I be around him.for longer than twenty minutes. The only performer that it would be more torturous to live with might be Robin Williams. Please give him...or me...a valium!!
@dougr.2398
2 жыл бұрын
He didn’t have to wear a kippah (yarmulke)…. Thé toupee comb-over was an adequate substitute!
@krisscanlon4051
4 жыл бұрын
I love you zero mostel+ by the way his comb-over had a comb over LOL
@sugarjoe50
3 жыл бұрын
Trump's comb-over actually seems quite stylish compared to Mostel.
@kreek22
2 жыл бұрын
@@sugarjoe50 Speaking of Trump, he would have been a rather better host here than little Dick--much better sense of humor and deeper Jewish cultural connections. Indeed, it was his humor and Jewish connections that permitted him to provide us with the most entertaining of Presidencies.
@QuadMochaMatti
2 жыл бұрын
@@kreek22 Speaking of "little dicks", Donnie Dorko has got the teeny-tiniest of them all, which perfectly compliments his single-cell protozoa excuse for a brain. Too bad we went from one dangerously incompetent boob to another, but that's how it's always been here in this screwed-up country; land of deceit, home of the greed.
@steveconkey7362
Жыл бұрын
What a gem to find.....What talent.
@lissaf65
Жыл бұрын
What a Beautiful Mind he was , and seems to have been a kind and hurt human
@eldeguello1
4 жыл бұрын
He looks just loaded. Glassy eye'd.
@paulmaloney2383
3 жыл бұрын
He is rich in talent
@photo161
Жыл бұрын
If ever a performer could be called a genius, that performer would be Zero Mostel!
@photo161
Жыл бұрын
...an example of Mostel's genius can be seen in the above brilliant performance of a monologue from Ulysses- ( about 56:30 to 58:20...)
@BrandonScottFox1
Жыл бұрын
What a guy!!
@robertjames7389
Жыл бұрын
An amazing individual 😊
@bixster2260
Жыл бұрын
Incredible performer. They don’t have this caliber anymore. Maybe Robin but he’s gone. You know they’re good when your face aches from smiling and laughing so much.
@postatility9703
Жыл бұрын
And Johnathan Winters
@robertczebotar7753
2 жыл бұрын
Thrilling and spectacular performance
@Lurker1979
5 жыл бұрын
Man I would have loved to see Zero and Robin Williams do something together.
@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou
5 жыл бұрын
Does burn in hell count?
@atiphwyne5609
3 жыл бұрын
@@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou Pray tell why?
@brandaoz
4 жыл бұрын
Came here fot Don Rickles..and discovered this wonderful artist!!
@apostoloscombitsis
Жыл бұрын
I'm crying. I have no words. Zero Mostel was my model when I played Tevye in our high school's production of "Fiddler" over 40 years ago. I must have listened to that original cast recording a thousand times, trying to copy his every inflection and vocal acrobatics. "Rich Man" makes me want to get up and dance every time! To this day, whenever I attend a live theatre performance of "Fiddler" (be it either on Broadway or in a local high school production), I'm in tears throughout the whole show. And although I mean no disrespect to Topol, Hollywood did Mstel a great disservice by not casting him as Tevye in the movie version. May his beautiful soul rest in peace.
@johnbrown5565
4 ай бұрын
Cavett was the highest IQ talk show host ever.
@kathrynramsay5104
2 жыл бұрын
wow he is loved and massively funny with it
@petermeszaros3849
3 жыл бұрын
Jackie Gleason with a comb over
@bennettjoseph1481
2 жыл бұрын
Gleason came to mind with me as well.
@TerryUniGeezerPeterson
Жыл бұрын
Gleason *did* have a comb over.
@sparky6086
3 жыл бұрын
To some nowadays, Zero's goofiness in this video may seem trite, but it was new and surprising to the 1971 audience. If Zero was still around, he could spontaneous come up with something, not thought of before, and make people laugh. I read somewhere, that when he was young, Zero could instantly come up with an original, spur of the moment performance on the sidewalk and make a living from tips, even in the worst of times. Sadly, he died too young. I think, that he died in the late 1970's.
@johnbranson3298
Жыл бұрын
Dick Cavett lives.
@oldtimer7635
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this amazing upload! I really would like to have a chat with those down thumbers!!!
@user-nw6qp1ki2n
4 жыл бұрын
Very Funny 😄 Cavett left totally out of control 🙈 hhhhhhhh 🦋 Rest in Peace Zero
@Thomas-xn4tk
3 жыл бұрын
I can’t believe Dick interrupted when Zero said, “I must tell you the BEST story of being an artist in those depression years.” All for the sake of a now non-existent commercial.
@manofmanyinterests
2 жыл бұрын
Zero had perfection. Cavett none.
@jadezee6316
2 жыл бұрын
@@manofmanyinterests i think its called producing a show...where commercials pay for the production...maybe you think zero or any guest can just go on a tv show then or now and keep talking till they decide to walk off....to bad one of your many interests isnt intelligence
@QuadMochaMatti
7 ай бұрын
We all know you wanted to plant a big ol' wet kiss on his bottom.
@tomhamilton5261
3 жыл бұрын
Funny talented brilliant. The best and only Max Bialystok.
@Schnoodles46
26 күн бұрын
By Christ, imagine Zero and Behan together!!!
@rosemariemann1719
2 жыл бұрын
His face is hardly ever still...so expressive.😊 When his face is occasionally at rest, he looks so different.... 21.20.... 41.55... handsome, even, in a funny sort of way ! 😊⭐🇺🇲💕🇬🇧😊⭐
@britturk123
3 жыл бұрын
A tour de force of funny energy.
@nightowl5475
3 жыл бұрын
I would of loved to meet Zero. He was such a treasure to Broadway with all of his great roles.
@giovanideparma3500
2 жыл бұрын
What a character..
@babar201109
4 жыл бұрын
I'm a damned interesting man!
@jimmcguy5511
4 жыл бұрын
Original. Doesn't exist today.
@MrJoeybabe25
2 жыл бұрын
Wow! An hour with Zero Mostel is exhausting. But worth every single second. That he was CHEATED out of 10 years (or more) of his career by the cancel culture (blacklist) of the 50's is a truly vulgar thing. That, and his dying rather young (I think he was 62) cheated us out of years of his genius. If you haven't seen "The Front" starring Woody Allen and featuring Zero Mostel In a rather good cinematic telling of the Blacklist, I recommend getting thee to it.
@kreek22
2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps Mostel, a very clever man, ought to have considered *not* being an Stalinist traitor--but that's Jewish gratitude for you. He wasn't cheated out of anything at all. He cheated himself and his people and his nation.
@provideme1000
2 жыл бұрын
@@kreek22 no
@kreek22
2 жыл бұрын
@@provideme1000 Perhaps Mostel, a very clever man, ought to have considered not being an Stalinist traitor--but that's Jewish gratitude for you. He wasn't cheated out of anything at all. He cheated himself and his people and his nation.
@provideme1000
2 жыл бұрын
@@kreek22 "Mostel joined the United States Army in 1943 but was discharged because of an unspecified physical disability. For the rest of the Second World War Mostel entertained American troops overseas. Mostel held left-wing political views and when the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began an investigation into the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry it was not long before he was called to give evidence. Mostel denied he was a member of the Communist Party but he refused to provide information about the political opinions of his friends. Mostel was now blacklisted and this made it very difficult for him to work in the entertainment industry. Around 320 artists, including Larry Adler, Stella Adler, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Joseph Bromberg, Charlie Chaplin, Aaron Copland, Hanns Eisler, Edwin Rolfe, Carl Foreman, John Garfield, Howard Da Silva, Dashiell Hammett, E. Y. Harburg, Lillian Hellman, Burl Ives, Arthur Miller, Dorothy Parker, Philip Loeb, Joseph Losey, Anne Revere, Pete Seeger, Gale Sondergaard, Louis Untermeyer, Josh White, Clifford Odets, Michael Wilson, Paul Jarrico, Jeff Corey, John Randolph, Canada Lee, Orson Welles, Paul Green, Sidney Kingsley, Paul Robeson, Richard Wright and Abraham Polonsky, were also blacklisted. For the next few years Mostel found it difficult to find work in clubs and theatres and had to supplement his income by trying to sell his paintings. In 1958 a friend managed to get him the part of Leopold Bloom in the Off-Broadway production of Ulysses. He was a great success and won an Obie.
@kreek22
2 жыл бұрын
@@provideme1000 Lucky for him he chose to side with the communist mass murderers rather than the fascists--otherwise his blacklisting would never have ended. He was a traitor and a supporter of communism, mankind's worst ideology.
@veganvocalist4782
3 жыл бұрын
Crying 😂 wow I love a laugh but it’s rare that some one actually makes the tears flow from laughing so hard , first saw him in the Producers , GENIUS sexy intelligent man
@Billkwando
4 жыл бұрын
31:10 Now we know where Jack Black gets that face from, I guess.
@unclejohnthezef
3 жыл бұрын
Jack Black the heir apparent to tevye
@vipermad358
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, how I love Zero Mostel. What a perfect talent.
@corbenvanloosbroek
Жыл бұрын
When he dumps the water and later blows the smoke through his left nostril lol!
@Anna.Lippert
3 жыл бұрын
His talent abounded in declinations...
@kreek22
2 жыл бұрын
Whipped cream, then ashes. Hazards, then feathers. An eyeball in the mud, a serenade to the stars.
@patrickfairchild2330
2 жыл бұрын
I believe he was blacklisted and Fiddler brought him back - He was truly a funny funny man - and - rarely - a fine dramatic actor - this guy with Jack Palance - YOW
@lotteweill
Жыл бұрын
Z overcame the monstrous McCarthy blacklist performing Ulysses in Nighttown, off bway in 1958, he won an Obie award for Ulysses and that put him back in the spotlight, 6 years before Fiddler. Godot on TV in 61, it's on youtube, He won his first Tony for A Funny Thing... in 1962. P.S. he was unquestionably a great great talent, the best in my book, watching him from the audience, he could do no wrong, but he could be a major pain in the ass for SOME of the other actors working with him on stage. Unpleasant stories abound.
@petermcgill1559
3 жыл бұрын
What a ham!
@pianopappy
3 жыл бұрын
Is there any chance, Archy, that you have access to a video recording of an appearance by Benny Goodman on the Dick Cavett Show on ABC-TV on October 20, 1972 (wherein Cavett had to tell Goodman that his fly was open)? Goodman also played "Sweet Georgia Brown" with Bobby Rosengarden and other musicians from the studio orchestra.
@robinvincent1162
3 жыл бұрын
good....
@browningautomatic2393
2 жыл бұрын
GOOD SHOW ! FRIDAY 12/3/21 DECEMBER 3, 2021
@TerryUniGeezerPeterson
Жыл бұрын
I gave myself 60 seconds to watch this. Then a voice said, go, you have 58 seconds.. you have 48 seconds left, hurry hurry.. 28 seconds you're running out of time, tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock..
@nibsvkh
2 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed Zero once he settled down and got the jokes out of his system.😊
@markthomas6703
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know if I can last that long. All the yucking it up is unbearable.
@MrJoeybabe25
3 жыл бұрын
For a great acting performance see Zero in "The Front" a film about the blacklist made in 1976.
@sugarjoe50
3 жыл бұрын
Zero actually was in fact blacklisted in the 50s.
@kreek22
2 жыл бұрын
@@sugarjoe50 No, sir, he was such a consummate communist that he was the reason the blacklist had to be invented--in the 40s.
@mrmillcake8525
9 ай бұрын
Is it interesting to watch how the presenters flirted back then? =)
@90loneeagle
5 жыл бұрын
Who fell for 8:34 ?!
@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou
5 жыл бұрын
90loneeagle I almost fell for that, but luckily I landed on my face.
@Rotary_Phone
Жыл бұрын
What's up that that hair style Zero's sporting? Combed forward, with a little pony tail in back.
@DCdabest
4 жыл бұрын
Talk about chewing the scenery. Mostel worked it
@corbiusbain8558
2 жыл бұрын
Was a major influence on Robin Williams
@lorirhea428
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing. How much do you decide what a bomb is worth?
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