There's a lot of awkward silence in Dick Cavett interviews but I still think he's one of the best because he comes across so genuine and honest. That can bring out the most personal out of his guests.
Funny thing about military puns...there are a few colonels of truth in them. When it comes to military puns I'm a specialist. I've come up with some first class material. These puns are definitely warranted. I hope these puns get a uniform response.
I have always liked puns and use them a lot. So many people hate puns however. Dunno why. When I heard that the Hitch loved them, it made my day! Thank you, Mr. Hitchcock.
I think of puns as being a way to punk your listener. It's dominance striving. It's dog mounting dog. It's saying "I'm going to say something silly and useless on the pretext that it's humor, and you're not going to be able to do anything about it." Alfred Hitchcock loved to play practical jokes on people too.
Hitchcock was a notorious practical joker. He had a penchant for pulling absurd and often cruel pranks on his movie sets and in his private life. He delighted in placing whoopee cushions under his coworkers’ chairs and once held a dinner party where all the courses had been inexplicable dyed blue with food coloring. For one of his most elaborate stunts, Hitchcock bet one of his crew that the man couldn’t spend a whole night locked in handcuffs. The crewman accepted, only to later find that the director had secretly dosed him with a laxative before slapping on the cuffs. In some cases, Hitchcock even used his pranks as part of the creative process. During the filming of “The 39 Steps,” he handcuffed the two leads together for a scene and then pretended to have lost the key. The actors were chained to each other for a good while before Hitchcock suddenly “found” the key in a coat pocket and explained that the ordeal had been a ruse to help them build chemistry.
@GEVMM in theater, they redo the same stories over and over again with different actors all the time. theyr is nothing wrong with that.its not an insult to want to see a different version of the same story. hitchcock will always be good no matter how many remake of this movie theyr will be.
George Carlin, Oscar Wilde, The Marx Brothers, William Shakespeare... A good pun is candy for the brain. A bad pun is amusing. A slew of bad puns makes one want to punch somebody...
... directly under The Birds shit which sent him into a Frenzy. So out of respect he buried it in the Family Plot which was North By Northwest of the estate. This was without a Shadow Of A Doubt the best idea. Harry was Spellbound as to why he didn't think of that before. But he was Notorious for his absentmindedness. No one could accuse Harry as being The Man Who Knew Too Much.
I really don't care if they remake the Birds. If it sucks people will just realize even more how good Hitchcock was for making it even better back then (and that is almost certainly going to happen). I simply am just not going to go see it
The people that moan the most when you've made a good or better pun are always the ones who have no capacity to create them, or, just don't want to see someone else shine brighter than them even for a few seconds.
@GEVMM You do realize that you are making unnecessary free publicity for the movie? Petition is not gonna change anything, you will just make unintentional public relations campaign.
Still can't get why some people actually place him in the utmost, highest echelon of directors, as in along with, or even better than, some (if not all) of the members of the "Holy Trinity" i.e. Kubrick, Scorsese, and Spielberg. All in all, though, he's still probably top 10 for me
Well, to be honest, I'll admit not a lot. For the most part, just his most famous ones. Which yeah, I know really doesn't give me any right to say on whether or not that I believe he's the best. Hell, I'll even admit that I'll live with you replacing spielberg with him. Even scorsese as well. But come on..kubrick? No one can hold a candle compared to him
stealspell yeah, I've actually already saw that one. Thought it was pretty great, really liked it. That and rear window, psycho, the birds, etc. Like I said, his most famous ones I've already seen. Which yes, I know, isnt really much to go on with having seen more from the others, but still. I'll have to see more of Hitchcock's and rewatch the ones that I've already seen to get a better understanding of his direction-skills (which I already know are great, but I'm js)
I don't really think Scorsese or Spielberg are that great either (except for a few films from each of them). But I agree, Hitchcock didn't exactly make masterpieces every time, he has a lot of so-so movies mixed in with his genius ones.
Definitely not. One of the greatest figures in cinema history
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Tom Waits Haters gonna hate. Some people just like pissing on good stuff for the hell of it. "Everyone loves that, so I'll hate it, that will be fun, wheeee!" Except they're wrong.
Hitchcock's legacy is that gore, shock effects and corny plotting are accepted as "art" in cinema, instead of good dialogue and high seriousness. Ask yourself why we don't have Casablanca, Key largo and Wild Strawberries now.
edmund184 What an ignorant comment. Hitchcock's legacy is that he set the template for smart (!) psychological and horror thrillers and suspense films (which means that he elevated the genres and used witty dialogue and psychologically well-thought out and smartly constructed plots - often with plot twists - by using concepts from psychoanalysis instead of shitty dialogue, shock effects and gore). He also coined the term MacGuffin and was probably the first director to deliberately use those kind of plot devices. The editing and camera work was highly original, arftul and had a huge influence on later filmmakers and he was widely respected by many great directors (including filmmakers that you probably would regard as "serious" filmmakers like Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard). He also made the job of a director more popular and noticeable by marketing himself very well through cameo appearances, interviews, his own tv show etc. (without forgetting his artistic integrity and how to make great films). Let's not forget that one of his most frequent collaborators was maybe the greatest film composer ever (Bernard Herrmann). Have you even watched a Hitchcock film, you elitist smartass?
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR THRILLERS? What great horror film has been made in the last 20 years? Hitchcock's legacy was to make shock effect and flimsy plotting acceptable as "art". Think about Psycho...it makes no sense and you don't notice.
Forever showing this to people who complain about my punning.
Giving excuses to your pun obsession is giving punishment to your friends.
My friends would come back with "there are puns and there are your puns" 🤣
Military jokes should be assigned rank. They could result in general hilarity. They could cause major laughter.
I see I am in that WONDERFUL part of youtube again...
Holy crap the look on his face when he saw his pun landed was fantastic!
Hitch definitely had a cheeky and at times morbid sense of humor. Great deadpan too.
There's a lot of awkward silence in Dick Cavett interviews but I still think he's one of the best because he comes across so genuine and honest. That can bring out the most personal out of his guests.
Hitchcock was actually a very funny man.
Words can't express how I wish I was alive to witness all of this.
Oh, my condolences
THANK YOU ALFRED!! 1:26 HHAHAHHAHAHHAHA
Funny thing about military puns...there are a few colonels of truth in them. When it comes to military puns I'm a specialist. I've come up with some first class material. These puns are definitely warranted. I hope these puns get a uniform response.
I love puns!
I love the way he tried to save face at the end.
"Punz ah the highest fohm of litrechuh"
There's a Colonel of truth to that...
I love these two together
That General Ising bit was great.
Oh, how I love puns.
I have always liked puns and use them a lot. So many people hate puns however. Dunno why.
When I heard that the Hitch loved them, it made my day!
Thank you, Mr. Hitchcock.
Alfred Hitchcock. a legend!!!
HITCHCOCK WAS AMAZING!!!!!
What a man.. a genius
one word. Genius.
I think of puns as being a way to punk your listener. It's dominance striving. It's dog mounting dog. It's saying "I'm going to say something silly and useless on the pretext that it's humor, and you're not going to be able to do anything about it."
Alfred Hitchcock loved to play practical jokes on people too.
Alfred Hitchcock August 13, 1899 - April 29, 1980
'Master Of Suspense' At his witty best
I'm so in love
Dope!
he's adorable
puns are indeed good
This interview caused me general anxiety, which led to major pain.
Are those two army men as well?
Keep that to yourself. It's a Private Matter.
@georgekaplanful It's a play on words. Like he said "generalizing" and then transformed it into "General Izing"
I am laughing so hard right now
Dick Cavett:
The man with the lowest stoop and most powerful suction
of any interviewer in the history of broadcasting.
Hitchcock was a notorious practical joker. He had a penchant for pulling absurd and often cruel pranks on his movie sets and in his private life. He delighted in placing whoopee cushions under his coworkers’ chairs and once held a dinner party where all the courses had been inexplicable dyed blue with food coloring. For one of his most elaborate stunts, Hitchcock bet one of his crew that the man couldn’t spend a whole night locked in handcuffs. The crewman accepted, only to later find that the director had secretly dosed him with a laxative before slapping on the cuffs.
In some cases, Hitchcock even used his pranks as part of the creative process. During the filming of “The 39 Steps,” he handcuffed the two leads together for a scene and then pretended to have lost the key. The actors were chained to each other for a good while before Hitchcock suddenly “found” the key in a coat pocket and explained that the ordeal had been a ruse to help them build chemistry.
PUNS, OH PUNS.
@ninyae
true, they don't win many friends. Puns require a bit of thought, some ingenuity.
yup
Hitchcock had enormous hands! 0:11
1:39
Take that people who say puns aren't the greatest
The face
Rocky Dennis all growed up
LOL QUDOS at the one guy in the audience that laughed at "Hes not an army man" xD
The lowest form of wit or the highest form of lit?
bwahaha. good on ya, Alfred
BAZINGA BAZINGA BAZINGA
@GEVMM in theater, they redo the same stories over and over again with different actors all the time. theyr is nothing wrong with that.its not an insult to want to see a different version of the same story. hitchcock will always be good no matter how many remake of this movie theyr will be.
I wonder what Hitchcock would think about the "giving head" scene in Re-Animator.
George Carlin, Oscar Wilde, The Marx Brothers, William Shakespeare...
A good pun is candy for the brain. A bad pun is amusing. A slew of bad puns makes one want to punch somebody...
@1:13 You're thinking of Gary Cooper ;)
General Izing -- not a military man. He wasn't particular he was generalizing.
@darius595 Thank you.
You could probably empathize with that.
you know you're an old school Englishman when your name is alfred hitchcock
Dick Cavett suddenly realises who he's talking to,"I think I would agree with you"
@GEVMM That's good. If I had the authority I'd ban all the remakes of good, classic movies, lol.
You can't ban remakes across the board. Maltese Falcon didn't get it right until the third time they tried.
sofa-knee. com has tons of hilarious puns, you should check them out!
Was there a shadow of a doubt
I mean, maybe. Everyone casts a shadow, even Mr. Doubt.
wrong. 1:22, 1:30. that's pure smile. :)
That was the trouble with harry. He went psycho and used a torn curtain. Found him by the rear window.
... directly under The Birds shit which sent him into a Frenzy. So out of respect he buried it in the Family Plot which was North By Northwest of the estate. This was without a Shadow Of A Doubt the best idea. Harry was Spellbound as to why he didn't think of that before. But he was Notorious for his absentmindedness. No one could accuse Harry as being The Man Who Knew Too Much.
@randomvideowatcher there's a colonel of truth in that
1:41
I really don't care if they remake the Birds. If it sucks people will just realize even more how good Hitchcock was for making it even better back then (and that is almost certainly going to happen). I simply am just not going to go see it
Then......then...
@dcolby5 They're afraid that we will have a repeat of the Psycho remake
i thought that comment was right on the marnie
Well, they couldn't be stopped from remaking Psycho
I think his early British films are better than the later American work due to the lack of comedy in the latter.
steve jones Huh? There's tons of comedy in his later movies.
Absolutely incorrect. His greatest films are the Hollywood ones
James Bond is a fictional character and Shakespeare is a playwright. They cannot be compared.
@randomvideowatcher my landlord overheard this and said we need a new tenant.
carl azuz
I got 99 problems but a pun ain't one!
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The people that moan the most when you've made a good or better pun are always the ones who have no capacity to create them, or, just don't want to see someone else shine brighter than them even for a few seconds.
Only after six......LOL
Alfred Hitchcock is for the birds.
You like all kinds of horror don't you LMAO
you would think that hitchCOCK of all people would have more hostile feelings towards puns
Let's...kick some ICE
i missed it. can someone explain
3 years late but here we go. Generalizing wasn't an army man. Get it? Generalizing, "General" Izing
Cody Windsor badum tss
They should be made in private. Bad ones should be given corporal punishment
What is a pun or puns???
Bakers make a lot of money, 'cause they make a lot of dough!
@randomvideowatcher Absolutely, and some comics' jokes should result in corporal punishment. I think you are on to something.
hehe...
Of course, lower ranking military jokes would only result in private giggles.
Look at 1:34 to cue holder?
haaa ok
Sorry guys...I don't get it! :/
His jowls are mythical.
@randomvideowatcher Buh dun, tish.
@GEVMM
You do realize that you are making unnecessary free publicity for the movie? Petition is not gonna change anything, you will just make unintentional public relations campaign.
ha thats pretty punny
@randomvideowatcher ...no one wants to hear your military puns, keep 'em private. ;-)
You really don't know who that is do you?
Joel Schumacher took this advice too seriously
I wounder if he always talked that slow.
Why Alfred, I think you're jealous.
Still can't get why some people actually place him in the utmost, highest echelon of directors, as in along with, or even better than, some (if not all) of the members of the "Holy Trinity" i.e. Kubrick, Scorsese, and Spielberg. All in all, though, he's still probably top 10 for me
How many movies of his have you actually seen? Neither Kubrick, Scorsese, or Spielberg's films hold a candle to Hitchock's best films.
Well, to be honest, I'll admit not a lot. For the most part, just his most famous ones. Which yeah, I know really doesn't give me any right to say on whether or not that I believe he's the best. Hell, I'll even admit that I'll live with you replacing spielberg with him. Even scorsese as well. But come on..kubrick? No one can hold a candle compared to him
Nick Berger Kubrick is definitely the best of the three you mentioned. But still, watch Vertigo and I'll think you'll see why.
stealspell yeah, I've actually already saw that one. Thought it was pretty great, really liked it. That and rear window, psycho, the birds, etc. Like I said, his most famous ones I've already seen. Which yes, I know, isnt really much to go on with having seen more from the others, but still. I'll have to see more of Hitchcock's and rewatch the ones that I've already seen to get a better understanding of his direction-skills (which I already know are great, but I'm js)
I don't really think Scorsese or Spielberg are that great either (except for a few films from each of them). But I agree, Hitchcock didn't exactly make masterpieces every time, he has a lot of so-so movies mixed in with his genius ones.
You're speaking from the grave?
Keep that crap private, or be subject to corporal punishment.
The most overrated figure in cinema history.
Definitely not. One of the greatest figures in cinema history
Tom Waits Haters gonna hate. Some people just like pissing on good stuff for the hell of it. "Everyone loves that, so I'll hate it, that will be fun, wheeee!" Except they're wrong.
Hitchcock's legacy is that gore, shock effects and corny plotting are accepted as "art" in cinema, instead of good dialogue and high seriousness. Ask yourself why we don't have Casablanca, Key largo and Wild Strawberries now.
edmund184 What an ignorant comment. Hitchcock's legacy is that he set the template for smart (!) psychological and horror thrillers and suspense films (which means that he elevated the genres and used witty dialogue and psychologically well-thought out and smartly constructed plots - often with plot twists - by using concepts from psychoanalysis instead of shitty dialogue, shock effects and gore). He also coined the term MacGuffin and was probably the first director to deliberately use those kind of plot devices. The editing and camera work was highly original, arftul and had a huge influence on later filmmakers and he was widely respected by many great directors (including filmmakers that you probably would regard as "serious" filmmakers like Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard). He also made the job of a director more popular and noticeable by marketing himself very well through cameo appearances, interviews, his own tv show etc. (without forgetting his artistic integrity and how to make great films). Let's not forget that one of his most frequent collaborators was maybe the greatest film composer ever (Bernard Herrmann). Have you even watched a Hitchcock film, you elitist smartass?
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR THRILLERS? What great horror film has been made in the last 20 years? Hitchcock's legacy was to make shock effect and flimsy plotting acceptable as "art". Think about Psycho...it makes no sense and you don't notice.
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