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Stand-up Comedy Greats: Bob Newhart 1969
Reaganite Republican ^
| March 02, 2011
| Reaganite Republican
Posted on 03/02/2011 12:53:38 PM PST by Reaganite Republican
"This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills...
I'm not about to screw with it now!"
Bob Newhart (Oak Park, Illinois 9.25.1929) is an American comedian, author, and TV/film actor known for a deadpan style and trademark stammering and hesitant delivery. His hugely successful career spans over four decades, and the man is nothing less than an American comedy legend...
Bob Newhart's career was launched by his 1960 comedy album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart -which acutally went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains to this day the 20th best-selling LP of any kind... in history.
Not only did he release an additional ten comedy albums over the next three decades, but Bob Newhart evolved into a huge star with four different TV series, various appearances in films and other television shows.
In college we got together to watch the 1980s Bob Newhart series "Newhart" every Tuesday night, where Bob plays a Vermont innkeeper of "Larry, Darrell, and Darrell" fame- always loved that show.
And here we have a vintage stand up bit of his on
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1969...
[video here]
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TOPICS: History; Humor; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: comedy; humor; jokes; vintage
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To: Responsibility2nd
Oh, I disagree. They were both funny. Although I must admit, Larry and Darryl and Darryl were fantastic.
Bob Newhart's comedy was so sweet and wonderful.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:18:08 PM PST
by
Finny
("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
To: AU72
To: amom
I remember his record with a section called The Driving Instructor. Me too -- it's as funny today as it was the first time I heard it.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:20:12 PM PST
by
Finny
("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
To: Responsibility2nd
I agree myself... but always run into resistance on that lol
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:20:34 PM PST
by
lysie
To: basil
Nope, Bob’s alive and well at 81 to the best of my knowledge!
I do a comedy great at my site every Weds, that’s all... and thx for the kind words Basil
To: Reaganite Republican
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:22:59 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: svcw
Totally agree...best ending ever.
I recently saw Bob Newhart on an NCIS episode...he played a retired Dr. w/Alzheimers.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:24:27 PM PST
by
dawn53
To: Responsibility2nd
No—I missed it. I actually don’t watch much tv these days.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:24:39 PM PST
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: Reaganite Republican
To: Reaganite Republican
My favorite was a skit he did on SNL interviewing a potentially disgruntled employee at the postal service. The script is here:
SNL transcripts
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:29:22 PM PST
by
BuckyKat
(Green is the new red.)
To: Responsibility2nd
And totally against type, which proves his skill. How I cried at the end.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:32:29 PM PST
by
Excellence
(Buy Progresso, take off the label, write "not halal," mail to Campbell's soup company.)
To: Reaganite Republican
Good,clean and very funny.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:41:45 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: cripplecreek
Back in 1972 I was at The Basic School, Quantico (TBS teaches new 2nd Lieutenants to lead a Marine Rifle Platoon).
At the start of our first Tactics class, the lead instructor, Maj Porter, walks to the podium wearing a trench coat and German helmet with a mortar shell sticking through it. “Vee hav vays uf teeeching you TAKTIKSsss”!
He then proceeded to introduce his two assistant instructors. Capt. Storm was a dead ringer for Tim Conway, only he did a better “Tim Conway” impression than Tim Conway. For young Marine lieutenants, Tactics is what it’s all about! With these guys teaching we loved the class.
Oh, Maj Porter introduced the third instructor, kind of dark and brooding at first, like Ralph Nader. “Class, this is our other Instructor, Capt. North, Capt Ollie North.” The three of them made the best ever “tag team” tactics instructors!
Those were the days, my friend!
To: Reaganite Republican
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:44:07 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: basil
Same here.
My first thought was “What?. Is he dead?”
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:49:36 PM PST
by
Paisan
To: Reaganite Republican
To: Reaganite Republican
I had picked up the Bob Newhart show on DVD last year or so. I had never realized before watching those shows with my wife just what a dramatic influence the show had on me growing up. But glancing over at my brunette, modestly proportioned, smarter than me wife I was forced to thank Bob a bit. She then bought me a-z bookends like he had in his office for my birthday.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:59:50 PM PST
by
discostu
(this is definitely not my confused face)
To: Dick Bachert
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posted on
03/02/2011 2:04:20 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face — forever.” Orwell)
To: Reaganite Republican; All
My personal favorite has to be "Introducing Tobacco to Civilization"
You what??
Haha - hahahahahahaha - hahaha!!
You set FIRE to it, huh, Walt???
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posted on
03/02/2011 2:10:42 PM PST
by
Notary Sojac
(Who's Damaged America More? (a) Al Qaeda (b) Wall Street Investment Bankers)
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