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It's hard to say whom you're coming to hear more: the dry, wry spiritual stepchild of Groucho Marx and George S. Kaufman rolled into a turtleneck, or the wet 'n' hyper one-man cavalcade of celebrity tics.

With the always-flashy Old Hollywood-ish Short currently on parade in Fame Becomes Me (an extravagant musical comedy featuring the comic's own "Ed Grimley" and "Jiminy Glick"), who better to rap with him than Cavett?

Cavett will certainly be able to handle whatever Short throws his way—a Katharine Hepburn impersonation here, an impromptu romp through self-perpetuating grandeur there, always with Short's fists on his tiny hips like an uppity starlet.

(If you're not old enough to remember Cavett's late-night interviews with elder statesman actors and humorists, including Jack Benny and Orson Welles, you can rent the just-out Dick Cavett Show DVD collections: Comic Legends and Hollywood Greats.)

So hear Short go wild, and pray Cavett's still got the teeth to tame him.