Today we have lost a comedy legend. The ending of the Newhart show was the greatest series finale ever.
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R.I.P. Bob Newhart
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Hi Bob! Goodbye, Bob.
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I remember losing it as a kid the first time i saw this. Still makes me laugh!
Yes sad news. And I must agree the ending to the Newhart show was a true surprise, fantastic and yet to be equaled. It seems his key to comedic success was by trying not to be funny.Today we have lost a comedy legend. The ending of the Newhart show was the greatest series finale ever.
R.I.P. Dr. Hartley / Mr. Loudon.
The first time I saw him he was in the early n60's on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV show. The episode was called How to Murder Your Wife. I've only seen it once but so damn good I remember it to this day.
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May this great comedian rest in peace 
The origin of baseball is a comedy classic!
Shoot, loved that guy.
Very few comedians or TV shows ever made me split my guts laughing but at least one episode of The Bob Newhart show did! I forget now just what I found to be so funny at the time but all in all his show was so damn good! He will be sorely missed.
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That phone call, and the one with Abe Lincoln, I remember hearing as a little kid. They were so funny. I had my parents get the albums way back when. People used to come over to your house and you'd listen together to a comedy album. Hard to believe. Even though I lived through it, I can't imagine that happening today.
Bob always seemed genuine and to be a great guy. 94 is quite a run. He will be missed, but will live on way past all of us in his work and recordings
Man, those mid-70s Saturday nights: MTM, Newhart, Burnett. Killer. My summer drivers ed instructor--who during the school year was a tough-as-nails, no-nonsense Social Studies teacher--played us Newhart's classic driving instructor bit in class. And let's not forget that long after the sitcom was done, Newhart went on to be the adoptive father of @steelydave's identical cousin. To borrow from the great Myles na Gopaleen: I do not think that his like shall ever be seen again.
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Last year Judd Apatow made a short film for the New Yorker about the almost-lifelong friendship between Bob Newhart and Don Rickles that featured some really lovely recollections from Newhart that tell you as much about the warm, gentle humour of the interviewee as they do about the friend he was speaking of. If you've got 20 minutes to spare you can't go wrong with this.
What a great tribute to two comedy legends. I never knew. Very well worth watching. Thanks for sharing this.
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The episode in question, SW, is HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR WIFE!
https://www.complete-hitchcock.com/How_To_Get_Rid_Of_Your_Wife.html
RIP, Bob ...you were indeed one of a kind!
R.I.P. Bob. I loved his comedy. In high school I used his material to get points for humorous interpretation in the National Forensic League. I memorized the Driving Instructor, a Friend with a Dog, and Sir Walter Raleigh Introduces Tobacco to Civilization. And when I was in my professional career as a psychologist I couldn't be happier with his portrayal on his show.
Good catch Ralphie!
Last night I watched Bob Newhart: Off the Record on VUDU/Fandango. Pretty hilarious. The first time I've ever seen him do a real stand up routine.
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/search?minVisible=0&returnUrl=%2F&searchString=bob%20newhart
I’m old enough to have bought “The Button-down Mind Strikes Back” when it was new. So I’ve been a fan for over half a century. I remember one of his phone routines in a WWII movie (can’t recall the title) where he was supposedly trying to fool some Germans who had wiretapped the field phone, and even though it wasn’t a funny movie, the routine was perfect! “The vichysoisse tastes like potato soup.”
Gonna miss you, Bob, and thanks for a lot of laughs.
Gonna miss you, Bob, and thanks for a lot of laughs.
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Pretty sure that was from Catch-22
It must have made an impression on me as well: I'm sure I haven't seen it since it first ran on CBS (OK, maybe I watched the summer rerun as well), but the instant it started my brain yelled out "Moo Goo Gai Pan!"
My generation (Old) loved Bob, in contrast to the comedy of today, that resorts to using the N word, and really vulgar language to get laughs. Don't get me wrong, I cuss without realizing it....my old HR file, at work, is full of me throwing the F word around like a kid skipping rocks on a pond.
RIP Bob and thank you for the many laughs
RIP Bob and thank you for the many laughs
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