Most Recent Role: Guest on Late Show with David Letterman
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 9-5-1929
Birth Name: George Robert Newhart
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 9-5-1929
Birth Name: George Robert Newhart
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Bob Newhart is a one of the well known comedian that is still around today. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, after dropping out of law school, Newhart decided to settle his life as an accountant, but has a hobby of doing comedy routines in the radio. Warner Brothers was so impressed with his talent, that they signed him to record his first ever album in 1960, called The Button-Down Mind of Bob...
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Friday 5 October 2007 on CBS
Several audience members voluntarily present the Top Ten; Bob Newhart shares an amusing story about Frank Sinatra; Angela Kinsey talks about life in Texas; Iron & Wine performed "The Devil Never Sleeps."
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Bob's album, The Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart, has stayed on Billboard's 200 Top-Selling Albums list for the past 45 years, and is the only comedy album to remain on that list as well.
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Bob did a series of commercials for Stamps.com in which he played Frank Mettman Jr., a vacuum cleaner company executive, in 1999-2000.
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In September of 2006, Bob is releasing his biography, I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This, through Hyperion Books.
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Bob has four children: Timothy, Robert, Courtney, and Jennifer.
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Bob guest-hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) for Carson 87 times.
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Bob: Jack Benny, George Burns – I would examine how they worked.
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Bob Newhart: You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.
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Bob Newhart: I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable
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Bob Newhart: It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
(edit) Bob Newhart: It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
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(edit) Bob Newhart: It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
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Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
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Captain Nice
One Rotten Apple Lloyd |
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Comedian Bob Newhart had starred in two highly successful ensemble comedy series for CBS. The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978) and Newhart (1982-1990) and in 1992 Bob Newhart returned to television... more George & Leo
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Newhart
Four years after the end of his long-running sitcom, Bob Newhart returned to series television for another eight years on this brilliantly funny, often surreal sitcom. In it, Newhart played... more
The Bob Newhart Show
Comedian Bob Newhart plays Dr. Robert Hartley, a psychologist living in Chicago with his wife Emily, a schoolteacher. His neighbor, Howard Borden, is a divorced airplane navigator. One of Bob's... more The Bob Newhart Show (1961)
This early Bob Newhart one-hour variety show appeared one year after the release of this beloved comedian's album release The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart . Although it only lasted one season,... more The Entertainers
The unusual format of The Entertainers was designed to allow each of its three stars at least one week off each month. Sometimes Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart and Caterina Valente all appeared in an... more
Comedian Bob Newhart had starred in two highly successful ensemble comedy series for CBS. The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978) and Newhart (1982-1990) and in 1992 Bob Newhart returned to television... more George & Leo
Welcome to the George & Leo guide at TV.com. more
NewhartFour years after the end of his long-running sitcom, Bob Newhart returned to series television for another eight years on this brilliantly funny, often surreal sitcom. In it, Newhart played... more
The Bob Newhart ShowComedian Bob Newhart plays Dr. Robert Hartley, a psychologist living in Chicago with his wife Emily, a schoolteacher. His neighbor, Howard Borden, is a divorced airplane navigator. One of Bob's... more The Bob Newhart Show (1961)
This early Bob Newhart one-hour variety show appeared one year after the release of this beloved comedian's album release The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart . Although it only lasted one season,... more The Entertainers
The unusual format of The Entertainers was designed to allow each of its three stars at least one week off each month. Sometimes Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart and Caterina Valente all appeared in an... more
