Dick Van Dyke
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 1:13.9 | It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. Dick Van Dyke turned 95 this month. 95. That alone is a remarkable feat, but there's of course so much more to Dick Van Dyke than simply having been born before TV was invented. He's a legend of stage and screen. The Dick Van Dyke |
| 1:20.9 | show, Mary Poppins, bye-bye Birdie, so many more, he's still performing today. To celebrate Dick's |
| 1:26.6 | birthday, we're replaying my interview with |
| 1:28.5 | him from 2015 when he was only 90. He'd just written a book called Keep Moving, which is, you know, |
| 1:36.5 | what he does. He sings and dances every day. He goes to the grocery store and says hi to Debbie, |
| 1:42.6 | his favorite cashier. He'll even sing a song or two on stage every now and again. |
| 1:47.4 | Anyway, before we get into our conversation, here's a bit of one of the greatest TV comedies |
| 1:51.7 | of all time, the Dick Van Dyke Show. |
| 1:54.5 | Rob and Laura, played by Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, of course, have accidentally eavesdropped |
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