After his “Button-Down Mind” album hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, he starred in two hit sitcoms and influenced a generation of comedians.
Comedian Bob Newhart sits with a bronze likeness of Dr. Bob Hartley, the character he played in the 1970s sitcom “The Bob Newhart Show,” at the unveiling of the statue in 2004.
Mr. Newhart’s best-selling records helped him become one of the first comedians to develop a following on college campuses. With his suit and tie and his subdued manner, he looked like a junior executive who wandered across the hall from a business meeting to describe a world wobbling off its axis. By looking at familiar situations from fresh angles, Mr. Newhart uncovered an original brand of humor: He portrayed a driving instructor with a clueless student; the beleaguered commander of a nuclear submarine, the USS Codfish, with an mutinous crew; and a bus-driving teacher who schools his students on the proper way to leave passengers at the curb: “What you want to do is just kind of gradually ease out.
Another routine was built on the idea of workplace emergencies not covered during employee orientation. In this case, a security guard in his first night on the job at the Empire State Building isn’t sure what to do when King Kong begins to climb the outside of the building. “I didn’t want to do a certain kind of show, which was the dumb father who keeps getting in these pickles and these precocious children and mother get him out of it,” he told the Newark Star-Ledger in 2001. “That was one of the few conditions that I insisted on, and I think it was one of the factors that made the show work.”On “Newhart,” which ran on CBS from 1982 to 1990, he portrayed a guidebook-writer-turned-Vermont-innkeeper dealing with a cast of eccentric locals.
Those first appearances, at a club in Houston, became “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.” The title was a wry nod toward Mr. Newhart’s clean-cut, businesslike image.The album’s unexpected success transformed Mr. Newhart into a major star. He appeared on TV variety shows and at New York’s Carnegie Hall.
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