📋 Bob Newhart, King of Deadpan Comedy, Dies at 94 (AARP Article)

[Winter2025VA]

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King of Deadpan Comedy Bob Newhart Dies at 94.

With his trademark satirical humor and stammer, ‘The Bob Newhart Show’ and ‘Elf’ star was one of the most-revered comedians of the last 60 years.

By Alanna Nash, AARP. Published July 18, 2024.

It started with a bit of office ennui, when he worked as an accountant for a construction materials company and dabbled in acting in his native Chicago. He found a kindred spirit in another part-time thespian named Ed Gallagher, whose day job was advertising.

“I would get so bored at the end of the day with accounting that I would call Ed up and we would improvise routines,” Bob Newhart remembered in PBS’ 2005 documentary American Masters.  Gallagher was the straight man in the duo Newhart would later call “a poor man’s Bob and Ray,” and they turned their pastime — with bits like a fire in the yeast factory — into a self-syndicated radio show. (“We’d just start the tape machine,” Newhart remembered. “I’ll be a submarine commander. And I’ve had this disastrous trip.”)

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2024/bob-newhart-obit.html

[KellytheBelly]

I loved him. RIP, George Robert 'Bob' Newhart. (T⌓T)

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@Winter2025VA wrote 07-20-2024 09:55 AM:

FROM ARTICLE - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE!!!

King of Deadpan Comedy Bob Newhart Dies at 94.

With his trademark satirical humor and stammer, ‘The Bob Newhart Show’ and ‘Elf’ star was one of the most-revered comedians of the last 60 years.

By Alanna Nash, AARP. Published July 18, 2024.

It started with a bit of office ennui, when he worked as an accountant for a construction materials company and dabbled in acting in his native Chicago. He found a kindred spirit in another part-time thespian named Ed Gallagher, whose day job was advertising.

“I would get so bored at the end of the day with accounting that I would call Ed up and we would improvise routines,” Bob Newhart remembered in PBS’ 2005 documentary American Masters.  Gallagher was the straight man in the duo Newhart would later call “a poor man’s Bob and Ray,” and they turned their pastime — with bits like a fire in the yeast factory — into a self-syndicated radio show. (“We’d just start the tape machine,” Newhart remembered. “I’ll be a submarine commander. And I’ve had this disastrous trip.”)

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2024/bob-newhart-obit.html

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