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

 

[ewomack]

My closest brush with Bob Newhart: I worked in a local television station a while back and one of its studio walls was covered with signatures of celebrities that had performed there since the 1950s. One signature stood out in large letters. I'm pretty sure it had a date from the early-mid 1960s. It said: "So long and thanks for the dollar! -Bob Newhart." I asked one of the "old timers" who still worked there whether he knew what that meant. He said that the previous station owner was never known for his generosity.

I hope that wall still exists. I have forgotten most of what it contained and I never took any photos of it (this was pre-mobile phone era). The last I knew, only station employees could even enter the area to see it.