Newhart was a frequent guest on the era’s variety and talk shows, and a regular fill-in host on the “Tonight Show,” switching ...
After winning a Grammy for "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart," he went on to lead "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart." ...
Newhart became a stand-up comic after starting his career as an accountant in Chicago. He went on to guest-host Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show 87 times. More recently, he starred in classic ...
Like Carson, he keeps his chatter on the light ... is “the Rock of Gibraltar” (Joan Rivers), or “my security blanket” (Newhart). Once, when Newhart and Guest Bobby Morse were lulling ...