Timeless humor from The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart

[prfesser]

The routine is almost as old as me but is still hilarious. The album reached #1 on the charts at the time. Second album followed immediately. It only hit second place...because the first album was still at #1. He won Grammys for Best New Artist and Best Album.

(I seem to have trouble getting YouTube to post here, showing a clickable preview. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't work for me.)

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[bad_idea]

I just grab the "watch on YouTube link" and past it into a media item:

 

[cwbullet]

I just grab the "watch on YouTube link" and past it into a media item:

That is funny. I don't care what you are

 

[MarsLander]

Bob Newhart is my ninth cousin, twice removed. Funny man.

 

[Hobie1dog]

Thanks for posting that.

 

[kelltym88]

We saw him back in 2017 at the La Mirada theater...was very funny.

 

[tsmith1315]

Best deadpan comedian ever.

 

[prfesser]

I just grab the "watch on YouTube link" and past it into a media item:

That may be what I've been doing wrong, I don't post it into a media item. Thanks!!

 

[cwbullet]

There is nothing wrong with the humor of the past.

 

[Art Upton]

The ending of the last episode of "Newhart" when Bob wakes up in bed.

 

[Blast it Tom!]

We had that album as well! The two routines I remember best are the budget airline (Mrs. Smith's Air Line and Storm Door Company) and a griping soldier in the Revolutionary War. Golden!

Edited to add: Occasionally I'll still use a line from the routine where he's a cop out on a ledge of a tall building trying to talk a guy out of jumping from the ledge. And at one point he turns his gaze away, turns to say something else to him, and he's apparently jumped, as Bob says, "Now where the h*** did he go? The fact that he could paint this picture using an audio monolog speaks to he razor-sharp skill.

 

[Art Upton]

For those that didn't get #post 10