Despite his oft-displayed capacity for behaving like any other precious horse's patoot from Yale, Cavett scored one of the best-ever shots on the deserving Mailer.

Mailer was sitting to Cavett's left during an interview on the latter's daytime program. Doing the high end of pomposity, Mailer expressed deep and abiding admiration for his own intelligence, insight, ability and willingness to share them with mortals.

Cavett did his you're boorish and I'm peeved glare, saying to Mailer something very close to: 'Perhaps you would like another chair to contain your enormous intellect!'

It brought the house down in Cavett's studio, and in my apartment.