Bob Newhart, the groundbreaking comic and TV sitcom legend, has died at 94.
, the comedian and actor whose deadpan manner and laconic approach led to a series of best-selling comedy albums and starring roles in two long-running sitcoms, died Thursday at the age of 94.
Understated in his delivery and physically small of stature—he looked like the former accountant that he was—Newhart nonetheless left a sizable footprint on comedy. His first album, 1960’s, was a blockbuster; featuring his trademark one-sided conversations, the album won Grammys and achieved the commercial success of a huge pop album.
Some of his most popular bits—marketing executives advising Abraham Lincoln and the Wright Brothers and a harried driving instructor—were included on. Despite the modest edginess of some of his topics Newhart delivered those skits in a low-key manner, dotted with his occasional stammer. “Something very sick makes me laugh,” he said in 2019. “My wife says to me, ‘If people ever found out what you find humorous, they’d stop showing up.’ I said to her: ‘That’s our little secret.'”caught fire. It was the no.
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