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George Robert Newhart was an American comedian and actor. Newhart was known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style. Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, he transitioned his career to acting in television. He received three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Peabody Award, a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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entertainment · American comedian and actor (1929–2024) · comedian · television actor · film actor · voice actor · actor · stand-up comedian · also Bob Newhart, George Robert "Bob" Newhart, Newhart
Born 5 September 1929 · Died 18 July 2024 · Q718078
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Mike (Nichols) and Elaine (May), Shelley (Berman), Lenny Bruce, Johnny Winters, Mort Sahl — we didn’t all get together and say, ‘Let’s change comedy and slow it down.’ It was just our way of finding humor. The college kids would hear mother-in-law jokes and say, ‘What the hell is a mother-in-law?’ What we did reflected our lives and related to theirs.
I was not influenced by Jack Benny
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“Mike (Nichols) and Elaine (May), Shelley (Berman), Lenny Bruce, Johnny Winters, Mort Sahl — we didn’t all get together and say, ‘Let’s change comedy and slow it down.’ It was just our way of finding humor. The college kids would hear mother-in-law jokes and say, ‘What the hell is a mother-in-law?’ What we did reflected our lives and related to theirs.”
“I was not influenced by Jack Benny”
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The Forward: When Bob Newhart was my rabbi — and I was his
National Catholic Register: Bob Newhart, Celebrated Comedian and Lifelong Catholic, Dies at 94
Yahoo: Bob Newhart mourned by Carol Burnett, Kaley Cuoco, Judd Apatow, Al Franken and more
The A.V. Club: Give Bob Newhart 30 minutes, and he'll have you laughing your ass off
Deadline.com: Remembering Bob Newhart: A Career In Photos
Died 2024-07-18.
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“Humor is a very, very important part of our life. It's not just laughing at a joke, it's an attitude toward life. And as the world gets crazier, it's more important to laugh at it. It's a survival technique.”
Newhart sold the property to developers in May 2016 for $14.5 million.
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Publicist and comedy album collector Jeff Abraham revealed that a "lost" Newhart track from 1965 about Paul Revere existed on a one-of-a-kind acetate, which he owns
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The 85-year-old Newhart made a surprise appearance on the final episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, where he was revealed to be the person inside Secretariat, Ferguson's on-set pantomime horse
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for The Big Bang Theory (2013).
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Newhart appeared in an episode of the sixth season of The Big Bang Theory playing the aged Professor Proton (Arthur Jeffries), a former science TV show host turned children's party entertainer, for which he was awarded a
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Appeared in a small but pivotal role as a doctor in Lifetime's anthology film on breast cancer, Five
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Received another Primetime Emmy nomination for reprising his role as Judson in The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice
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Hyperion Books released Newhart's first book I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This
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At the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Conan O'Brien, Newhart was placed in a supposedly airtight glass prison that contained three hours of air
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The Monday following Johnny Carson's death, reminiscing about their many appearances on Carson's show
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Bob Newhart profile from American Masters
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Began a recurring role in Desperate Housewives as Morty, the on-again/off-again boyfriend of Sophie (Lesley Ann Warren), Susan Mayer's (Teri Hatcher) mother
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Rotijefco sold the station to Santa Barbara Broadcasting, which changed its call sign to KZSB and format to news and talk radio
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“s American Masters that his favorite stand-up routine was”
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Newhart guest-starred on three episodes of ER in a rare dramatic role that earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, his first in nearly 20 years
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Awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2002).
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Wrote, "Later, I moved up to the 64 KB model and thought that was silly because it was more memory than I would ever possibly need
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Newhart returned again with George & Leo on CBS with Judd Hirsch and Jason Bateman (Newhart's first name being George); the show was cancelled during its first season
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Newhart was one of several investors in Rotijefco (a blend of his children's names), which bought radio station KKSB (AM 1290 kHz) in Santa Barbara, California
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Newhart was approached by Showtime to make the first comedy special of his 35-year career, Off the Record, which consisted of him performing material from his first and second albums in front of an audience in Pasadena,
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And on an episode of Newhart's short-lived sitcom, George & Leo, in 1997
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Newhart returned to television with a series about a cartoonist called Bob
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Newhart was hospitalized for secondary polycythemia, a condition attributed to his years of heavy smoking
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His smoking habit finally caught up to him, and he was taken to the emergency room for secondary polycythemia
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Soon after he guest-starred on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, he was approached by his agent and his managers, producer Grant Tinker, and actress Mary Tyler Moore (the husband/wife team who founded MTM Enterprises),
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Newhart played an annoying software specialist in the film Hot Millions
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Appeared at the Royal Variety Performance in London, before Queen Elizabeth II
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Newhart married Virginia Lillian "Ginnie" Quinn (December 9, 1940 – April 23, 2023)
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Newhart filmed An Evening with Bob Newhart, thought to be the first pay-per-view television special, for Canadian-based Telemeter
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best New Artist (1961).
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When his record album of comedic monologues, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, became a bestseller and reached number one on the Billboard pop album chart and won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, and Best New
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Only a year after it had come into existence
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Newhart became an advertising copywriter for Fred A
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With a bachelor's degree in business management
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Born 1929-09-05.
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