I could watch Bob Newhart do Half a phone call all day every day

Thank you to my grandad for introducing me to the comedy of Bob Newhart, he’s brilliant.

His standup from the 50's / 60's is still brilliant today !

@sailor-rick

8 ай бұрын

I think his first comedy album was in the 60s

@kevinangus4848

5 ай бұрын

His first album is also his first public performance. Before that, he was "the really funny guy at work."

Bob Newhart is a legend!😂

Bob Newhardt always delivered holding up a mirror to modern America. His material was always entertaining.

He’s 56 here, hard to believe he’s still with us after all these years.

I love Bob Newhart.

Bob Newhart... Just brilliant..

OG showing how it’s done. “Depends if we have a 13th floor or not” is a damn killer joke

I really needed some comedy right now. Thanks Bob.

Clean, sharp and still alive!

@dewilew2137

Ай бұрын

He’s my birthday twin ❤

I heard that one of his stand up comedy albums is one of the best-selling of all time.

Definitely on the Mount Rushmore of comics.

A comedy treasure, My favorite Comedian.

I have found SNL almost oppressive in recent decades. Everybody is trying so hard, amping up the intensity in a vain effort to cover for unimpressive material. To see something so understated, so outwardly effortless, and so brilliant is a welcome relief.

@Redmenace96

5 ай бұрын

Agreed! I'm with him on how funny it is to have King Kong interact with a security guard. That is pure gold comedy.

@michaelhake2291

3 ай бұрын

You're so vain lmao get over yourself. 😅

@willbrittain3046

3 ай бұрын

The “Hi Bob” sketch with Farley was amazing

@daniellamb6182

Ай бұрын

If you can’t say anything positive about things why don’t you just keep it to yourself and be quiet. Thank you.

@nocynic

Ай бұрын

@@daniellamb6182 Um, can't help noticing that 23 people seemed to have liked my comment. If you don't, why don't YOU keep it to yourself?

Happy Ninety-Third Birthday to This Deadpan Goofball. 😌😊☺️☺️😊😌😊🐹

Bob Newhart, like Betty White & Carol Burnett, is a national treasure.

my parents had the best of bob newhart album (1966) and that routine was on there

Didn't know Professor Proton hosted SNL.

I've loved Bob Newhart and his briliant comedy since I raided my older sister's record colleciton an discovered his "Unbottoned" album in something like '63! I was about twelve. And my dear sister was never angry with me, just happy I'd found him!

Mr. Newhart is my birthday twin (5 September). He will be 95 this year! ❤

Legend.

I can’t stop watching this. If only a therapist had told me to stop it twenty years ago. It is beyond genius.

@jst7714

6 ай бұрын

Have you seen Bob’s therapist sketch? He gives great advice on how to “stop it!”

One of the best comedians ever

Still my favorite SNL ever. Don Rickles hosting is my number 2.

Thanks Norm Oldheart.

Newhart's phone sketches are the best - you have to use your imagination to fill in for the person he's talking to. Rather than just listening, you become engaged.

One of the classic comedians of all time. He is still alive, but very old and feeble now-- I believe he's in his nineties. God bless him.

Brilliant comic and from all I've read a good man. Thank you for posting, show more greats who hosted dammit!

Ya gotta love Bob Newhart

My parents loved all of the Bob Newhart shows … we had one TV do we had to watch with them or read a book

Brilliant Bob Newhart!

*SNL* (S20, Ep12; February 11, 1995) Guest: Bob Newhart Musical Guest: Des'ree.

A master of his craft.

Major Major

@lornehampel1330

3 жыл бұрын

Ha. My wife is a master of Catch-22. She won't do things when she thinks about them she waits until she forgets them.

I am taking a pay cut. Ha, ha

I didn’t know Newhart was still alive

Genial!

I saw Bob Newhart perform at a charity gig in Austin in the late '90s, and I was stunned when he did a fair bit of risqué material -- especially in front of a charity show audience! I haven't been able to find any evidence of him doing those kinds of "adult" routines any other time -- I would expect him to do it here on SNL if anywhere! Has anyone else seen Newhart doing material about s*x?

3:20 hahaha mine doesn't/does!

That was a little hard to watch. Felt like the audience wasn't really with him...just little titters of a few people laughing. Younger audience, maybe they didn't get the humor of it.

@Paul_Wetor

Ай бұрын

This is how people used to react to comedy in clubs. They chuckled and laughed (or not) and applauded. Listen to some older comedy albums on KZread and you'll be shocked. Too many people are screamers these days, which means nothing. You cannot laugh and scream at the same time.

🔥

Hi Bob!

He had a failed sitcom, "Bob" a year before this, and another failed sitcom "George and Theo" a year after. The first one I understand, even with Betty White. The second one should have kept going.

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WHO KNEW HE STUTTERER IN REAL LIFE

Thanks for this recall of a 👍 comedian. Usually I search Dick Cavett old shows or even those Stupid Pet Tricks on the original David Letterman 😂

Bob was mildly funny here. Personally I think he did his funniest guest work on The Big Bang Theory.

I thought he was formerly a psychiatrist

I cant remember a time when Bob had hair.

Rip

Krusty funeral

Bob newhart should've voiced Mr Fredrickson in up

@brandonallen3808

Жыл бұрын

Not grouchy enough of a voice. He was perfect for Bernard in The Rescuers.

"Hi Bob" now drink n!

KRUSTY FUERAL

He kind of bombed.

My primary reaction to this is that each generation has less imagination than the one before it. If Newhart did this routine on SNL in 2023, I expect there would be complete silence.

@Redmenace96

5 ай бұрын

Great YT comment. His generation had MUCH more imagination. (because of radio?) I'm laughing at the outset about King Kong and a security guard as a premise. The audience is waiting for........?

I remember when SNL was funny. I miss those days.

@mistamuthafuka

Жыл бұрын

SNL is still funny you are just old

@janelliot5643

8 ай бұрын

​@mistamuthafuka it's not though

@aageseljegard8730

8 ай бұрын

@@mistamuthafukatotally one dimensional these days

@georgedanilov8898

8 ай бұрын

It’s different kind of humour Some of the SNL stuff in recent decade is absolutely brilliant (like alien abductions sketches with Kate McCinonn), some is tedious, boring and predictable And sir, I have a hunch that SNL is not the reason you miss those days )

@jakovasaur

6 ай бұрын

​@@mistamuthafukaI don't think they do enough political humor these days, and they're too pro Trump for me.

Comedy that requires imagination from the audience?

this is awful

laugh track? what a farce - it so ruins his act!

@GrandGame1440

2 жыл бұрын

Uhh it’s an actual audience laughing my dude. Did you want them to sit in silence?

@retiredmusiceducator3612

2 жыл бұрын

@@GrandGame1440 A recording of an actual audience along with the tiny live crowd.

@aziegster

2 жыл бұрын

@@retiredmusiceducator3612 It appears you retired at the right time. Those earholes aren't functioning properly.

@boromirofmiddleearth557

Жыл бұрын

it's live brother! real people real laughs!

@allenmullin3

Жыл бұрын

Just an annoying bimbo laughing over and over again the same way from the front frow perhaps...? It bothered me too.

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