A former accountant, he became an overnight sensation with the release of a 1960 live comedy album, then starred in a pair of fabled CBS sitcoms.
Bob Newhart, Dean of the Deadpan Delivery, Dies at 94
by Anonymous | reply 100 | July 30, 2024 12:07 AM |
Doesn't get any easier.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 18, 2024 7:50 PM |
He was still alive?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 18, 2024 7:52 PM |
I enjoyed so many laughs from his 70s show. RIP
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 18, 2024 7:56 PM |
Well, damn.
He really was one of the good guys.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 18, 2024 8:00 PM |
He was a good egg.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 18, 2024 8:01 PM |
How did he die?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 18, 2024 8:02 PM |
[quote] How did he die?
Of young age, Rose!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 18, 2024 8:04 PM |
Maybe Emily is just having a dream.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 18, 2024 8:06 PM |
Hello Bob!
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 18, 2024 8:06 PM |
Great theme.....even if some of the footage doesn't make sense.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 18, 2024 8:09 PM |
So young.....
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 18, 2024 8:12 PM |
Such a brilliant comedian. R.I.P.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 18, 2024 8:14 PM |
Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths-Annie Potts and John Ratzenberger.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 18, 2024 8:14 PM |
There was no one like him. His comic timing and delivery was šÆ
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 18, 2024 8:14 PM |
Hard to believe it took until 2013 for him to win an Emmy.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 18, 2024 8:15 PM |
Loved him so much. Hers a short documentary on his friendship with Don Rickles, which is enchanting. Directed by Judd Apatow and produced by The New Yorker.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 18, 2024 8:19 PM |
Bob and his late wife Ginny, who died last year, were best friends with Don Rickles and his wife Barbara. Bob was the last survivor of the group. Iām glad theyāre all together again. Thanks for the laughs, Bob.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 18, 2024 8:20 PM |
All the great ones are dying. What is left? Not much.
R.I.P. Bob
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 18, 2024 8:22 PM |
Best series finale ever.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 18, 2024 8:23 PM |
I loved Newhart. It was the last huge television hit before the tech boom. At least it seems that way to me. The show had no internet, cable TV, cellphones, laptops, etc etc etc. Just about as soon as the show ended society changed. The show started in 1982. When it ended in 1990 it was a completely different world. I don't think there was a bad episode of this show. They never completely rearranged the show but managed small tweaks that kept it fresh. Especially when Bob got his show on public TV. The episodes with Julie Brown on Bob's show were some of the best.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 18, 2024 8:25 PM |
How much more can we take??? Stop with the deaths oh Lord!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 18, 2024 8:27 PM |
He was never funny. Ever.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 18, 2024 8:31 PM |
Anne Meara R23
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 18, 2024 8:32 PM |
Susan Dey is contemplating her condolences.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 18, 2024 8:32 PM |
^ donāt feed the troll.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 18, 2024 8:33 PM |
Is Peter Bonerz now the only surviving cast member of āThe Bob Newhart Showā?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 18, 2024 8:36 PM |
It's only Julia Duffy and a couple of the Daryls for the 80's Newheart, right?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 18, 2024 8:39 PM |
And yet Keanu Reeves still walks among us
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 18, 2024 8:40 PM |
Growing up in dullest suburbia, I idealized The Bob Newhart Show. That swank apartment, the credit sequence of an exciting city, witty adults, no children (in most episodes), lots of smart laughs.
Bye, Bob.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 18, 2024 8:44 PM |
Plus Marcia Wallace. She was brilliant.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 18, 2024 8:46 PM |
From Julia Duffy:
[quote]Second most important man in my life. Glad they're together but I feel so alone now. #RIPBOB. How I will miss being teased. I love you.š
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 18, 2024 8:46 PM |
This one brings real sadness.
Loved him in everything he did
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 18, 2024 8:46 PM |
Lou Dobbs and now Bob Newhart?
What a world... what a world ā¹ļø
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 18, 2024 8:47 PM |
Wow. I had no idea Peter Scolari was dead. Sads.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 18, 2024 8:49 PM |
Well, this is just the cherry on top of a rotten day.
RIP to a funny gent.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 18, 2024 9:07 PM |
Scolari was working on the paranormal satire āevilā when he died. He was greatly loved by the cast.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 18, 2024 9:12 PM |
Iāve never seen Newhart. Does it still hold up today?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 18, 2024 9:22 PM |
Thank goodness we still have Dick Van Dyke and Carol Burnett. And they're still working!
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 18, 2024 9:23 PM |
RIP...funny one.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 18, 2024 9:24 PM |
This man endured.
I think of the first episode of Mad Men and the Bob Newhart album theyāre listening to at the agency, and remember what a period piece that show is ā that first ep was set in March of 1960. And the man who made that album just died in 2024.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 18, 2024 9:27 PM |
Astonishing to think that a few days ago, 91 year old Carol Burnett got an Emmy nom.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 18, 2024 9:30 PM |
I loved his show with Suzanne Pleshette. Also loved that his best friend was Don Rickles. Very talented man. I should go back and watch the Vermont show, which didnāt appeal to me in the 80s, although of course the ending was brilliant.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 18, 2024 9:35 PM |
Iām sad to see the people I grew up with and enjoyed, dying. I Loved watching his first show with my parents. I loved that era.
He and Rickles were great.
I hope Carol Burnett and Dick Van Dyke stick around a few more years.
RIP :(
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 18, 2024 9:36 PM |
Oh no! What happened?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 18, 2024 9:38 PM |
[quote] Oh no! What happened?
Fighting an oil rig fire on the Gulf of Mexicoā¦.
HE WAS 94!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 18, 2024 9:44 PM |
Well it's great that he was working right up until the end, R46!!
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 18, 2024 9:49 PM |
As much as I loved Bob, and I loved him, the real tragedy for me is finding out Peter Scolari died. I loved that guy. I don't know how his death didn't register with me.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 18, 2024 9:50 PM |
They happen in threes. Richard, Bob, and Lou. R.I.P. to these television legendsāeven if Lou was a big trumper. They all were on my TV for as far as I can remember.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 18, 2024 9:51 PM |
[quote] Iāve never seen Newhart. Does it still hold up today?
Yes, I think so.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 18, 2024 9:52 PM |
Has Suzanne Pleshette commented?
Or Mary Frann?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 18, 2024 9:54 PM |
Has Will Ferrell released a statement?
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 18, 2024 9:57 PM |
Funny to think he long outlived both his TV wives who were considerably younger than him.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 18, 2024 10:27 PM |
R51 - No, but Carlene Watkins did. There just wasn't any media asking her.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 18, 2024 10:27 PM |
Requiescat in Pace
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 18, 2024 10:28 PM |
Loved that Bob. RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 18, 2024 11:42 PM |
Never š funny.
Always boring š“
by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 18, 2024 11:44 PM |
[Quote] Funny to think he long outlived both his TV wives who were considerably younger than him.
Oh yeah thatās unbelievably hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 18, 2024 11:46 PM |
I loved both of his sitcoms.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 18, 2024 11:48 PM |
Plus Newhart had Bill Daily. Was glad to see him get a good gig so quickly after I Dream of Jeannie. He was a vastly underrated comedic actor.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 18, 2024 11:48 PM |
r59 He had two more:
"Bob" (33 episodes, '92-'93)
"George and Leo" (22 episodes, '97-'98)
by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 19, 2024 12:13 AM |
I first became aware of him on the short-lived "The Entertainers" (1964) which featured Bob, Carol Burnett, Dom DeLuise, John Davidson, and Caterina Valente in a one-hour variety format.
He also has another variety series, "The Bob Newhart Show" in 1961-62.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 19, 2024 12:17 AM |
He outlived Mary Frann by 39 years. She was only 55 when she died from a heart attack.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 19, 2024 12:24 AM |
Sweater overdose.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 19, 2024 12:25 AM |
Mary was so fat.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 19, 2024 12:26 AM |
It's a miracle he lived to 94. He was a heavy smoker for decades who didn't quit until later in life.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 19, 2024 12:31 AM |
He was a guest star on The Big Bang Theory a few times, playing a Bill Nye-type tv host from Sheldonās childhood. While TBBT often sucked, there were several great guest stars, like Leonard Nimoy. RIP, Mr. Newhart.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 19, 2024 12:48 AM |
R61 I enjoyed him best on those 2 shows.
I think they were both on YT for free as early as last year as I didn't watch G. & L. when it first aired. I enjoyed every show of the 1st season.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 19, 2024 3:26 AM |
He outlived Mary Frann by 26 years, but yes, there was a 39 year age difference between the age she was at when she died, and the age Bob was at when he died earlier today.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | July 19, 2024 4:50 AM |
Rumour has it that Julia Duffy was the sweet heart and Mary Frann was the cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 19, 2024 8:51 AM |
Maybe itās one of those things I once knew & forgot, but I didnāt know that Suzanne Pleshette was Jewish.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | July 19, 2024 9:18 AM |
Deservingly so, his obituary is above-the-fold in today's print edition of the NYT.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 19, 2024 10:20 AM |
He also didn't deserve the trashy, low-level "DEAD TO ME" bullshit,. so thank you, DL.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 19, 2024 11:04 AM |
Thank you, OP, for not using the tiresome "dead to me."
by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 19, 2024 11:20 AM |
[quote] I should go back and watch the Vermont show, which didnāt appeal to me in the 80s, although of course the ending was brilliant.
I am surprised that the ending is universally lauded. Never watched 'Newhart', so I don't feel strongly either way. But just like the shower scene of Bobby Ewing how was this Newhart ending not derided for invalidating the entire show?
by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 19, 2024 12:23 PM |
Will Dick Van Dyke receive as much love as Bob Newhart is receiving when he departs?
by Anonymous | reply 79 | July 19, 2024 12:45 PM |
^ Yes, but he'll have to die first
by Anonymous | reply 80 | July 19, 2024 12:48 PM |
R80 obviously flunked Reading Comprehension 101.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | July 19, 2024 2:06 PM |
[quote]Growing up in dullest suburbia, I idealized The Bob Newhart Show. That swank apartment, the credit sequence of an exciting city, witty adults, no children (in most episodes), lots of smart laughs.
Agreed, R30. Growing up outside a small town in nowhere, American TV in the late Sixties and early Seventies was an occasional glimpse into lives lived in cities, a promise of where I would one day live. Newhart's show resonated especially, as you describe: mart people, quick wit, bustling cities as hives of activity, lives behind every balcony, every window.
That Newhart played a psychologist wasn't unimportant, and that family was only a tangential aspect of the series was also interesting. In 142 episodes, Bob's TV sister was the most prominently featured of any family member, and the actress Pat Finley appeared in only 15 episodes total. No children, very minimal roles for parents and other relatives, instead it was a life of colleagues, neighbors, friends - a primer for many small town gays of a certain time frame who knew instinctively as young kids that their futures were to be found by going away to big cities.
Looking now at the Edgewater apartment building used for the exterior shots of Bob's apartment building, I think what a dog of a building, but I remember the promise it had when I was 10, 12, 14 years old.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | July 19, 2024 2:41 PM |
^ Obviously r81 flunked humor 101 š
by Anonymous | reply 83 | July 19, 2024 3:07 PM |
[quote]But just like the shower scene of Bobby Ewing how was this Newhart ending not derided for invalidating the entire show?
1. It wasn't a documentary.
2. "Dallas" continued on after that episode. The "Newhart" ending was the final episode of the series.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | July 19, 2024 3:43 PM |
R82 very nicely stated. I felt the same way.
My friends lived adjacent to that Edgewater building. It's no great structure but it tickled me to think about it when I walked by.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | July 19, 2024 3:56 PM |
Obviously r81 gave himself SEVEN upvotes in the last hour š Obviously he thinks quite a lot of himself and is most butthurt
by Anonymous | reply 86 | July 19, 2024 4:45 PM |
I've been watching reruns of TBBT on TBS and just saw a few episodes with him as Professor Proton. Oddly enough, he's always looked like an old man.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | July 19, 2024 5:23 PM |
If you want to live a long life go into television. The TV Academy website memorials are here. I've scrolled through 10 pages and almost every person died at 90+
by Anonymous | reply 88 | July 19, 2024 7:25 PM |
CBS will air a tribute show Monday night.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | July 20, 2024 3:06 AM |
I dusted off my TBNS DVDs last night and watched an episode from each season.
Marcia Wallace really stands out. She was great in this and she should have worked more. I hope The Simpsons paid her well and she finished out with lots of cash in the bank. Her life was a series of unfortunate events. She husband died young, her house burned down, she had a nervous breakdown, she got breast cancer.
Bob disappeared in the final season. There is a whole run of episodes where he was out and the show centered around Emily. I watched the one where Emily kisses an old flame and Carol, Jerry and Howards set out to break up the fling. Very, very funny.
The neighbor, Howard, was basically their child. He was so scattered and irresponsible that it was the same as giving them a teen.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | July 20, 2024 12:34 PM |
[quote] But just like the shower scene of Bobby Ewing how was this Newhart ending not derided for invalidating the entire show?
Because it was a joke and played on nostalgia. "Dallas" (and the smarter "St. Elsewhere") played that nonsense straight.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | July 26, 2024 12:13 PM |
[quote] The neighbor, Howard, was basically their child. He was so scattered and irresponsible that it was the same as giving them a teen.
R90 There was a certain amount of absurdity as part of the gentle humor of TBNS, such as Howard being an airline flight navigator. Imagine the reactions of the other characters if they were on a flight that Howard was navigating!
by Anonymous | reply 92 | July 27, 2024 2:47 AM |
A 2019 interview
Not long but he talks about timing and Newhart finale
by Anonymous | reply 93 | July 27, 2024 3:12 AM |
There's a clip out there somewhere with Bon talking about how the producers wanted to give him a baby to mine more humor after a few seasons on The Bob Newhart Show. His response apparently was that he thought it was a terrific idea and only wanted to know who they were going to get to play Bob. LOL
by Anonymous | reply 94 | July 27, 2024 1:20 PM |
Frann seems like a good sport in the blooper from Newhart.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | July 28, 2024 3:31 AM |
She was laughing all the way to the bank; but yeah, good for her for being a good sport.
She could have said, 'Well, BOB' but that might have gone over people's heads.
Newhart had a short-lived sitcom (33 episodes) in the 1992-93; his wife in that was younger than Frann, whom I'm sure was younger than Suzanne.
The short lived series was titled simply "Bob" and Carlene Watkins played his wife.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | July 29, 2024 3:52 AM |
Where can I stream Newhart? Or TBNS? I'm getting burnt out on falling asleep to Frasier and 30 Rock
by Anonymous | reply 97 | July 29, 2024 4:18 AM |
Iāve been watching the 80s one of Amazon Prime, R97. It hold up reasonably well, but I skipped the first two seasons before Stephanie and Michael became prominent characters.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | July 29, 2024 4:31 AM |
[quote]Because it was a joke and played on nostalgia. "Dallas" (and the smarter "St. Elsewhere") played that nonsense straight.
Again -- "St. Elsewhere," like "Newhart" was the finale. "Dallas" sticks out like a sore thumb because the series continued on.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | July 30, 2024 12:07 AM |