Bob Newhart, the genteel but sharply satirical comic whose TV series “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart” were huge hits throughout the 1970s and ’80s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 94.
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Judd Apatow did a documentary about Bob’s friendship with Don Rickles,
RIP
I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’. – Bob Newhart
He was an accountant for a few years and made some pity jokes there as well.
RIP . responsible for the greatest series finales of all time.
I posted a link to one of his phone bits on YouTube. The phone gags are what made him famous, and are hugely influential on me. It’s a unique style of comedy that Bob had down to a science the way the Marx Bros had physical comedy or Abbott & Costello had wordplay.
Where did you post it?
Also, did anyone else have trouble telling Bob Newhart and Lee Marvin apart, or was that just me?
… err, no? I had trouble telling Lee Marvin and James Coburn apart sometimes. But not Newhart.
Just you I think.
I had a similar issue. I always confused Lou Ferrigno and Wally Cox.
I always confused Arnold Schwarzenegger with Arnold Stang. Not being able to tell them apart made Hercules in New York really confusing. I didn’t think that was a particularly good movie, but I chalk that up to my confusion. Ironically, I watched a clip with one of the Arnolds earlier today. Happy Anniversary and Goodbye was a 1974 TV movie with Art Carney and Lucille as a married couple breaking up. Arnold Schwarzenegger played an Italian massage therapist giving a massage to Lucy when Art Carney walked in to get the rest of his clothes. It was pretty funny. For the record, I looked it up, so I know the clip[ was of Schwarzenegger. I’ve never met Arnold Stang or Arnold Schwarzenegger, I have met Art Carney. In 2002, he addressed my Rotisserie chapter. He was a super sweet, very funny man. But Bob was funnier. I think Bob was the single greatest straight man to ever work in comedy. I can say that because he somehow managed to be both the straight man and the funny man in all those phone conversations.
Lucille was Lucille Ball. Sorry about that.
According to his friend Marlon Brando, Wally was actually pretty buff, so I can understand your confusion.
I can’t locate it at the moment, but somewhere on the internet there is a video where Wally shows off an NBA-level vertical in order to pull down on an elevated cord of some kind.That little fella had some serious ups.