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Comedian Bob Newhart, deadpan mästare of sitcoms and telephone monologues, dies at 94
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Bob Newhart, the deadpan accountant-turned-comedian who became one of the most popular TV stars of his time after striking gold with a classic comedy album, has died at 94.
Jerry Digney, Newhart's publicist, says the actor died Thursday in Los Angeles after a series of short illnesses.
Newhart, best remembered now as the star of two hit television shows of the 1970s and 1980s that bore his name, launched his career as a ståuppkomedi comic in the late 1950s. He gained nationwide fame when his routine was captured on vinyl in 1960 as "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart," which went on to win a Grammy Award as album of the year.
While other comedians of the time, including Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Alan King, and slang för mikrofon Nichols and Elaine May, frequently got laughs with their aggressive attacks on modern mores, Newhart was an anomaly. His outlook was modern, but h
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Bob Newhart, who died this week at 94, had a long enough career that nearly every generation could conjure up fond memories of him. He was the star of two long-running TV sitcoms, one in the ’70s and another in the ’80s; a ubiquitous presence on TV talk and variety shows for decades; a revered elder statesman of comedy, awarded the Mark Twain Prize in 2002 and an Emmy (his first) at age 83, for a guest-starring role in The Big Bang Theory.
But it was with his revolutionary stand-up comedy of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s that Newhart made his most important and lasting mark.
He grew up in Chicago, worked in advertising and as an accountant, and had no stage experience at all when, in early 1960, he recorded some comedy bits that he and a friend had devised for local radio stations. The resulting album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, was an unexpected smash hit, the first comedy album in history to reach No. 1 on the Billboard charts and staying there for
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Newhart
American television sitcom (1982–1990)
This article is about the 1982–1990 television series. For the actor and comedian, see Bob Newhart. For the gymnast, see Harold Newhart.
Newhart is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from October 25, 1982, to May 21, 1990, with a total of 184 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons. The series stars Bob Newhart and Mary Frann as an author and his wife, respectively; who own and operate the Stratford Inn in rural Vermont. The small town is home to many eccentric characters. TV Guide, TV Land, and A&E named the Newhartseries finale as one of the most memorable in television history. The theme music for Newhart was composed by Henry Mancini.
Premise
[edit]Bob Newhart plays Dick Loudon, an author of do-it-yourself and travel books. He and his wife Joanna move from New York City to a small town in rural Vermont[a] to operate the 200-year-old Stratford Inn.
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