Immense class? Balderdash! He had a sense of humor as big as the Atlantic Ocean.
From the 46th Oscars of 1974: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWBc-ir6IFM
He was widely ascribed as making one of the greatest off-the-cuff remarks in Oscar history.
Only much, much later did it come out that Niven himself had seen to it that the gentleman in question was admitted to the proceedings and ensconced backstage, making his debut at the appropriate time.
That's showmanship. But it wasn't class. It was master class. In comedy.
A man of immense class.
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He had a sense of humor as big as the Atlantic Ocean.
From the 46th Oscars of 1974:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWBc-ir6IFM
He was widely ascribed as making one of the greatest off-the-cuff remarks in Oscar history.
Only much, much later did it come out that Niven himself had seen to it that the gentleman in question was admitted to the proceedings and ensconced backstage, making his debut at the appropriate time.
That's showmanship.
But it wasn't class.
It was master class. In comedy.