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☆ Carol Burnett shares time capsule tribute to Bob Newhart
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Sid Avery/MPTV/Reuters Newhart poses as an addled accountant at an adding machine for a promotional photo of "The Bob Newhart Show." Allan Grant/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Newhart appears in a supermarket sketch during an episode of "The Bob Newhart Show" in 1961. Herb Ball/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images Newhart performs on the set of "The Bob Newhart Show." CBS/Getty Images Newhart counsels a clown about his problems in a 1972 episode of "The Bob Newhart Show." Walt Disney Television/Getty Images Newhart takes direction from Dick Martin, right, during a scene for "The Bob Newhart Show" in 1977.

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☆ The ‘Newhart’ Finale Was One of Bob Newhart’s Boldest TV Moments
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Noel Murray | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The “Newhart” finale should be on nearly all of those lists. For its last few minutes alone, “Newhart” deserves emeritus status on every roundup of best TV endings, best TV moments, funniest pranks, you name it. For eight seasons — from 1982 to 1990 — Bob Newhart entertained millions on “Newhart,” playing Dick Loudon, a how-to book author and the co-owner of a quaint Vermont inn with his wife Joanna (Mary Frann). The success of “Newhart” was especially remarkable given that Newhart had already had a long run on TV in “The Bob Newhart Show,” which ran for six seasons, also on CBS, from 1972 to 1978. He had spent those six years playing Bob Hartley, a Chicago psychologist who coped with his kooky patients with the help of his loving wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette).

Persons: Newhart, “ Newhart ”, Bob Newhart, ”, Dick Loudon, Joanna, Mary Frann, Bob Hartley, Emily, Suzanne Pleshette Organizations: CBS Locations: Vermont, Chicago, Hartley

☆ Bob Newhart, comedy legend and star of 'The Bob Newhart Show' and 'Elf,' dead at 94
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Known for his comedic timing, the "Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart" star was one of the funniest men of the 20th century. Breaking through into comedy in the '50sYoung Bob Newhart initially didn't consider comedy a career. Over the next 11 years, he released seven more albums, including "Bob Newhart Faces Bob Newart" (1964) and "Best of Bob Newhart" (1971). Bob Newhart during the first season of "The Bob Newhart Show," performing one of his popular telephone jokes. "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart"Newhart on "The Bob Newhart Show."

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☆ Bob Newhart, legendary comedian, dead at 94
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Dan Heching | Todd Leopold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Bob Newhart, whose stammering, deadpan unflappability carried him to stardom as a standup comedian and later in television and movies, has died, according to a statement from his longtime publicist Jerry Digney. Bob Newhart and Will Ferrell in "Elf." 1 with the follow-up, “The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!”“The Bob Newhart Show” debuted in 1972. After a quick fade to black, he awakens… as Hartley, his character from “The Bob Newhart Show,” in bed with Pleshette. The finale of "Newhart," which brought back the characters of Dr. Bob Hartley, Newhart's character on "The Bob Newhart Show," and his wife Emily played by Suzanne Pleshette.

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☆ Stream These 6 Great Bob Newhart Performances
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Noel Murray | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The legend of Bob Newhart, who died on Thursday at 94, holds that he was once just an ordinary Chicago accountant who honed a stand-up act in his spare time. Overnight, the story goes — almost accidentally — he became a Grammy-winning sensation with his debut album, “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart,” a collection of one-man sketches in which he play-acts one half of funny conversations. Newhart worked in advertising for longer than he did in accounting; and his showbiz ambitions were never just an afterthought. He then played variations on his stand-up character in two hit sitcoms: “The Bob Newhart Show” through much of the ’70s and “Newhart,” which ran from 1982 to 1990. In doing his bits about ordinary schmoes in extraordinary situations — such as crossing paths with King Kong or consulting with Abe Lincoln — Newhart spoofs the language of American life.

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☆ Bob Newhart Holds Up.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Bob Newhart, who died on Thursday at the age of 94, has been such a beloved giant of popular culture for so long that it’s easy to forget how unlikely it was that he became one of the founding fathers of stand-up comedy. Before basically inventing the hit stand-up special, with the 1960 Grammy-winning album “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” — that doesn’t even count his pay-per-view event broadcast on Canadian television that some cite as the first filmed special — he was a soft-spoken accountant who had never done a set in a nightclub. That he made a classic with so little preparation is one of the great miracles in the history of comedy. A Roman Catholic from the west side of Chicago, Newhart came off as an entirely respectable example of Midwestern nice. Newhart brought his own kind of neurosis, a comedy rooted in nuanced deadpan and silence.

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☆ Bob Newhart, Soft-Spoken Everyman Who Became a Comedy Star, Dies at 94
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Neil Genzlinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Bob Newhart, who burst onto the comedy scene in 1960 working a stammering Everyman character not unlike himself, then rode essentially that same character through a long, busy career that included two of television’s most memorable sitcoms, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. Mr. Newhart wasn’t merely unknown a few months before his emergence as a full-fledged star; he was barely in the business, though he had aspirations. In 1959, some comic tapes he had made to amuse himself while working as an accountant in Chicago caught the ear of an executive at Warner Bros. Records, which in 1960 released the comedy album “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.”The record shot to No. 1 on the charts, and at the 1961 Grammy Awards it improbably captured the top prize, album of the year. Among the nominees Mr. Newhart bested: Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte and Frank Sinatra.

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☆ Video: Hear what Bob Newhart said to unemployed comedian when he asked for advice (1995)
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Allison Love | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The 75 most impactful TV moments are debuts, farewells and historic firsts
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

These and more indelible moments appear on the Television Academy’s new list of the 75 most impactful moments in TV history, spanning introductions, endings and history-making events. MTV premieres with its first music video – “Video Killed the Radio Star,” 198113. “All in the Family” – viewers meet the working-class Bunker family, 197135. 8.” M*A*S*H” series finale, 198326. But these classic TV moments that stirred audiences when they first aired are still resonant and frequently referenced in contemporary culture.

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☆ The Tyranny of Hotness
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Lauren Jackson | More About Lauren Jackson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A beautiful person is so often a confrontation. Why would an attractive person toil for a reaction if they don’t have to? Stand-up stages are crawling with beautiful men. Jimmy Fallon smiles boyishly on late night. One annoyed late night writer complained to his peers: “You’ve let the popular kids appropriate the very art form that helped you deal.”

Persons: Jason Zinoman, Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, boyishly, Trevor Noah, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Newhart, Jim Gaffigan —, “ You’ve, ” Organizations: charmers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian Kevin Hart has been chosen to receive the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in American humor, capping a three-decade career that has seen him rise from the open mics of Philadelphia to become one of his generation's most successful performers. Hart, in a statement, noted that the launch of the Mark Twain Prize in 1998, with inaugural recipient Richard Pryor, basically coincided with the start of his comedic career. I am grateful to the Kennedy Center for recognizing my voice and impact on culture.”Hart will receive his prize at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts on March 24. Mark Twain recipients are honored with a night of testimonials and video tributes, often featuring previous award winners. Bill Cosby, the 2009 recipient, had his Mark Twain Prize rescinded in 2019 amid multiple allegations of sexual assault.

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☆ Harry Belafonte, calypso star and civil rights champion, dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Alex Johnson | Diana Dasrath | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Singer Harry Belafonte speaks during a press junket at The Bing Decision Maker Series with the Sing Your Song Cast and Filmmakers on January 22, 2011 in Park City, Utah. American singer Harry Belafonte performing in a recording studio, circa 1957. By the early 1960s, Belafonte had become a force in the civil rights movement. A crowd of over 10,000 civil rights marchers gathers in the Manhattan Garment Center as Harry Belafonte sings at spiritual at a civil rights rally. A capacity audience of civil rights advocates turned out to watch a glittering array of theater personalities perform.

☆ Minority directors reach milestone 20% of Russell 3000 board seats
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Ross Kerber | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Still, most minority groups hold a smaller share of board seats than their share of the total U.S. population. Often the investors have found receptive audiences, but slow turnover on corporate boards has limited the pace of change, recruiters say. The biggest gain over the four-year period was for Black or African-American directors, who nearly doubled their share of board seats to 8.3% from 4.4% in 2019. They were most represented in the utility sector, with 12% of board seats, and least represented among information technology, energy and healthcare companies, each at 6%. Compared to Hispanics' total share of the U.S. population, their 3.6% share of board seats "isn't anywhere near where it's supposed to be," she said.

But we don't need research to prove that the post-COVID-19 celebrities will all look a little bit like Leslie Jordan. Jordan is one of the true stars of the lockdown, amassing more than 3.8 million Instagram followers in a little over a month. Our dear Leslie might be complaining a bit, but he's still trying to make the most of what he has. Jordan just got on Instagram about a year ago at the urging of the PR team for the one-season FX sitcom "The Cool Kids." They signed him up with an Instagram account, and he started recording videos from his home in West Hollywood, California.

☆ Bob Newhart on His Secretly Sick Humor and Turning 90
▼ + stars: | 2019-09-04 | by ( Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

LOS ANGELES — Bob Newhart didn’t invent stand-up comedy, but more than any performer he can lay claim to giving birth to the modern industry of the comedy special. His still-funny 1960 album, “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart,” was arguably the first blockbuster special, selling more than one million copies, hitting No. 1 on the charts and winning the Grammy for best album, beating out Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. The other day, there was a story about a pilot getting arrested for being drunk in the cockpit. Welcome to a flight from Los Angeles to, um, to, um, I have it written down here somewhere, it’s the mountains and then there’s some more mountains and then we’re on the other side of that.”

Persons: Bob Newhart, ”, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Krusty, Newhart Organizations: ANGELES Locations: Mississippi, Los Angeles, Delta

☆ Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation
▼ + stars: | 2014-05-27 | by ( Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Abbott set up Costello, and Burns relied on Gracie to finish the joke, but Bob Newhart is the rare straight man who gets laughs all on his own. More than a half-century ago, Mr. Newhart became famous through stand-up routines that were one-sided telephone conversations in which his comic partner was neither seen nor heard. In a taped monologue, he made himself out to be a doddering old man who couldn’t get his video camera to work. Mr. Newhart has always been a gentle minimalist, which may be why he does not get anywhere near the critical respect of fellow founding fathers of modern stand-up, like Bill Cosby or Lenny Bruce. In his many television shows, including the jewel of his career, “The Bob Newhart Show,” his characters are a parody of reticent stoicism, using pauses and the unsaid to let the audience come to him and fill in the joke.

Persons: Abbott, Costello, Burns, Gracie, Bob Newhart, Newhart, Don Rickles, couldn’t, Bill Cosby, Lenny Bruce, “, ” Organizations: Apollo

☆ Bob Newhart, Button-Down Comic, Is Still Standing Up at 76
▼ + stars: | 2006-03-25 | by ( Ben Sisario | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But a comedian craves the sound of laughter, and Mr. Newhart, though happily deep into his golf-playing years, cannot stay away from the stand-up circuit. It's like Russian roulette -- you're out there and it's working and you're saying, 'Thank God the bullet's not in the chamber.' "Mr. Newhart built his career on a persona that would avoid tension and thrills at all cost. ("You take a pinch of tobacco and you stuff it up your nose and it makes you sneeze? Yeah, I imagine it would, Walt!")

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