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