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 Posted:   Jul 18, 2024 - 12:59 PM   
 By:   TheAvenger   (Member)

Just heard the news that Bob Newhart has passed away.

He was 94 so he lived a very long life but it’s still sad nonetheless.

Such a gifted comedian.

RIP Bob.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 18, 2024 - 1:30 PM   
 By:   Howard L   (Member)

Wow. A giant.

 
 Posted:   Jul 18, 2024 - 1:35 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Man, this one stings! I absolutely adore his dry witty humor. I was a huge fan of his television series The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart and loved him as Bernard in The Rescuers movies. RIP.

 
 Posted:   Jul 18, 2024 - 2:15 PM   
 By:   litefoot   (Member)



Required listening in the car when we were driving long distance in my childhood!

 
 Posted:   Jul 18, 2024 - 2:50 PM   
 By:   Valiant65   (Member)

Absolutely a Giant of dry witty humor. I've been watching the first 4 seasons of his legendary first sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show", from 50 years ago, on DVD. He did quite a few commentaries with his cast & a few directors. Well worth a listen. Most of the cast is now gone, save for Peter Bonerz, that wacky Dentist, who turned into a Director on the series. Bonerz is soon to be 86 years old.

Newhart is now somewhere exchanging witticisms with his friend of years gone by, Don Rickles.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 18, 2024 - 2:57 PM   
 By:   Leo Nicols   (Member)

R.I.P. Bob, you were Fantastic !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfOb8JhDatI

 
 Posted:   Jul 18, 2024 - 4:45 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

MeTV recently ran Newhart's episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, where he played a sinister husband, and it struck me how he never changed. The way he looked 61 years ago was pretty much how he looked his whole adult life. Either Bob Newhart was never young, or he never got old.

 
 Posted:   Jul 18, 2024 - 6:34 PM   
 By:   Adam.   (Member)

On his two hit shows he cast a young hot woman (Suzanne Pleshette, Mary Frann) as his wife. He led a charmed life. smile

 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2024 - 4:01 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

On his two hit shows he cast a young hot woman (Suzanne Pleshette, Mary Frann) as his wife. He led a charmed life. smile


Who didn’t love Mary Frann’s sweaters?!

 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2024 - 12:08 PM   
 By:   Valiant65   (Member)

CBS is going to air a tribute to Bob Newhart on July 22nd, Monday (2024) titled "Bob Newhart: A Legacy of Laughter".

Check your guides for exact times, but probably 8 to 10pm is a good guess. It will include his final interview, as well as behind the scenes clips from his life.

 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2024 - 12:16 PM   
 By:   DOGBELLE   (Member)



i will miss him

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2024 - 4:31 PM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

those shows are a such comfort food, I especially like that more recent one in Vermont, that was a good show.
Classic guy. We will miss you Bob.

 
 Posted:   Jul 20, 2024 - 7:16 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

those shows are a such comfort food, I especially like that more recent one in Vermont, that was a good show.
Classic guy. We will miss you Bob.


Love how he had a "no kids" rule in his shows. He had to fight producers on that all the time. Not every comedy needed a smarty pants brat to illicit laughs. Someone gave me a biography on Newhart for Xmas one year. I can't find it at the moment. I hope I have it boxed up somewhere.

 
 Posted:   Jul 20, 2024 - 7:22 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

While I never much cared for his 1980s TV show, the 1970s one was often excellent. I haven't seen it in many years, but the fond memory and its very mid-'70sness makes me want to do a rewatch.

Alao, my childhood best friend had Behind the Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart on LP, which his dad bought for $0.50 at a yard sale. Loved that Kennedy-era humor, and anyone who namedrops the great Herbert A. Philbrick is okay in my book.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 20, 2024 - 10:50 AM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

those shows are a such comfort food, I especially like that more recent one in Vermont, that was a good show.
Classic guy. We will miss you Bob.


I agree with you buddy! Btw, he also had a short lived show in 1993 just called BOB, do you remember that one, it was quite funny as well.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 20, 2024 - 11:12 AM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

those shows are a such comfort food, I especially like that more recent one in Vermont, that was a good show.
Classic guy. We will miss you Bob.


I agree with you buddy! Btw, he also had a short lived show in 1993 just called BOB, do you remember that one, it was quite funny as well.


Hey Henry my friend, I have a slight memory of that Bob show, I will have to look that up

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 20, 2024 - 1:49 PM   
 By:   chriscoyle   (Member)


He was good in Cold Turkey too. I just watched it again, great quirky movie..

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 20, 2024 - 2:45 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

He was good in Cold Turkey too. I just watched it again, great quirky movie..

Yeah that is a good one. He also had great minor roles in IN & OUT and ELF.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 20, 2024 - 4:07 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

He finally won an Emmy for THE BIG BANG THEORY.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 22, 2024 - 4:47 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

Hey guys there is a Bob Newhart special on CBS tonight at 7!

 
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