Bob Newhart News

 
Zap2it.com (blog)
'The Tonight Show' with Bob Newhart instead of Johnny Carson? 'I think I was ...
Zap2it.com (blog)
By Jay Bobbin Bob Newhart says his many guest-hosting stints for Johnny Carson could have led him down a different television path. The veteran comedian and star of two classic sitcoms was a frequent substitute when Carson had time off from NBC's "The ...

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Metrowny.com
A Conversation with Bob Newhart
Metrowny.com
NEWHART: Yes, this year is 51. It all started February of 1960, when I recorded the first album. HULICK: That was “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.” Did you come up with that title? NEWHART: No. I wasn't sure what the title meant.


 
A.V. Club DC
Bob Newhart talks about stand-up, sitcoms, and why he stays busy
A.V. Club DC
Bob Newhart is an actor, stand-up comedian, and legend of American comedy. He began his comedy career when he and a friend improvised over-the-phone comedy routines to kill boredom at work, and subsequently sold the recorded bits to radio stations.


 
Newhart's not-so-classic 'Bob' series available again
Ventura County Star
By Mark Wyckoff In "Bob," Bob Newhart played the creator of a comic book superhero named Mad-Dog. No, the "B" in CBS did not stand for "Bob" in the 1970s and '80s, but it certainly could have. During those two decades, mild-mannered Bob Newhart became ...


 
Hallmark Channel TV Marathon May 27: 40th TV Anniversary for Bob Newhart
Monsters and Critics.com
By April MacIntyre May 14, 2012, 13:06 GMT Bob Newhart has been entertaining the English-speaking world for a half-century and was recently Emmy-nominated as “Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Mini-Series” for his turn in TNT's “The Librarian.


 
5/26: Jay Leno at Talking Stick Resort near Scottsdale
Arizona Republic
It's kind of lazy. Bob Newhart told me this story about how he saw a hot comedian at the time. The comic comes out and goes, "Hello, where are you from?" A guy says, "Phoenix." The comic goes "(Expletive) Phoenix!" Newhart goes, "What did I miss?

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Best Series Finales Ever, Including 'M*A*S*H,' 'The Shield,' 'The Sopranos ...
Huffington Post
Bob Newhart's follow-up to the hit "Bob Newhart Show" ended with him getting knocked out during a particularly crazy scene at his Vermont inn and waking up in Chicago next to his former TV wife, played by Suzanne Pleshette.