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Bob Newhart
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George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929), known professionally as Bob Newhart, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery, Newhart came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was a worldwide bestseller and reached #1 on the Billboard pop music charts—it remains the 20th best-selling album in history. The follow-up album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Again! was also a massive success, and both albums held the Billboard #1 and #2 spots simultaneously, a feat unequaled until the 1991 release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II by hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Newhart later went into acting, starring in two long-running and prize-winning situation comedies, first as psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and then as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s sitcom Newhart. He also had a third sitcom that was short-lived and initially successful but was soon canceled, named Bob. Newhart also appeared in film roles such as Major Major in Catch-22, and Papa Elf in Elf. He provided the voice of Bernard in the Walt Disney animated films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. One of his most recent roles is the library head Judson in The Librarian. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Newhart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929), known professionally as Bob Newhart, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery, Newhart came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was a worldwide bestseller and reached #1 on the Billboard pop music charts—it remains the 20th best-selling album in history. The follow-up album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Again! was also a massive success, and both albums held the Billboard #1 and #2 spots simultaneously, a feat unequaled until the 1991 release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II by hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Newhart later went into acting, starring in two long-running and prize-winning situation comedies, first as psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and then as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s sitcom Newhart. He also had a third sitcom that was short-lived and initially successful but was soon canceled, named Bob. Newhart also appeared in film roles such as Major Major in Catch-22, and Papa Elf in Elf. He provided the voice of Bernard in the Walt Disney animated films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. One of his most recent roles is the library head Judson in The Librarian. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Newhart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Ed Sullivan Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Saturday Night Live
Hot in Cleveland
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Big Bang Theory
Desperate Housewives
Young Sheldon
Murphy Brown
MADtv
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Librarians
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Daily Show
Golden Globe Awards
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
The Carol Burnett Show
The Emmy Awards
The Simpsons
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
NCIS
Inside Comedy
The Judy Garland Show
Late Night with David Letterman
Captain Nice
The Don Knotts Show
What's My Line?
Committed
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Playboy After Dark
Once Upon a Studio
Horrible Bosses
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Hell Is for Heroes
Insight
Catch-22
In & Out
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Elf
The Sports Pages
The Bob Newhart Show
George & Leo
The Rescuers
The Bob Newhart Show
Bob
The Rescuers Down Under
Newhart
Production Credits
The Bob Newhart Show
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