Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart (born September 5, 1929), is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

Television

Newhart's success in stand-up led to his own NBC variety show in 1961, The Bob Newhart Show. The show lasted only a single season, yet earned Newhart an Emmy Award nomination and a Peabody Award. The Peabody Board cited him as:

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NBC - Variety show - 1961 - The Bob Newhart Show - Emmy Award - Peabody Award

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:a person whose gentle satire and wry and irreverent wit waft a breath of fresh and bracing air through the stale and stuffy electronic corridors. A merry marauder, who looks less like St. George than a choirboy, Newhart has wounded, if not slain, many of the dragons that stalk our society. In a troubled and apprehensive world, Newhart has proved once again that laughter is the best medicine.

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St. George - Laughter is the best medicine

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In the mid-1960s, Newhart appeared on The Dean Martin Show 24 times, and The Ed Sullivan Show eight times. He appared in a 1963 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

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1960s - The Dean Martin Show - The Ed Sullivan Show - 1963 episode - The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

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From 1972 to 1978, Newhart starred in the popular Bob Newhart Show on CBS in which he played a Chicago psychologist and husband of co-star, Suzanne Pleshette.

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1972 - 1978 - Bob Newhart Show - CBS - Suzanne Pleshette

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Newhart guest hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson a total of 87 times; he hosted Saturday Night Live twice, in 1980 and again in 1995.

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - Saturday Night Live - 1980 - 1995

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In 1982, Newhart returned to primetime with a new sitcom, Newhart, on CBS, co-starring Mary Frann. When the show went off the air in 1990, it ended with a surreal scene where Newhart wakes up in the morning on the set of his 1970s show and describes that the entire Newhart series as a dream.

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1982 - Newhart - CBS - Mary Frann - 1990 - 1970s

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In 1992, Newhart made an attempt to come back to television with a series called Bob. But it did not develop a strong audience and went off the air two years later. In 1997, Newhart returned again with George and Leo on CBS with Judd Hirsch.

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1992 - 1997 - George and Leo - CBS - Judd Hirsch

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His other television work includes:

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• The Entertainers (regular performer in 1964)
• Thursday's Game (1974)
• Marathon (1980)
• Ladies and Gentlemen... Bob Newhart (1980)
• Ladies and Gentlemen... Bob Newhart Part II (1981)
• The Entertainers (1991)
• The Sports Pages (2001)
• ' (2004)

More recently he guest-starred on ER in a very rare dramatic role which earned him an Emmy Award nomination, his first in nearly twenty years. In 2005 he began a recurring role in Desperate Housewives as Morty, the on-again/off-again boyfriend of Sophie (Lesley Ann Warren), Susan Mayer's (Teri Hatcher) mother.

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ER - Emmy Award - 2005 - Desperate Housewives - Lesley Ann Warren - Teri Hatcher

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