WORD LISTSBob Newhart (1929–2024) Tribute ListSun Jul 21 11:53:21 EDT 2024
By Vocabulary.com (NY)
 Bob Newhart, a beloved American comedian and actor best known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style, became famous in 1960 with the audio release of an album of comedic monologues, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. The first comedy album to make number one on the Billboard charts, it earned him the 1961 Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
His best known work came when he starred in two TV sitcoms: The Bob Newhart Show (1972–78) and Newhart (1982–90). Newhart's film credits include Catch-22 (1970), Cold Turkey (1971), In & Out (1997), and Elf (2003). He also voiced Bernard in the Disney animated films The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990). Towards the end of his career he played Professor Proton on The Big Bang Theory (2013–18), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award. Throughout his career, Bob Newhart received three Grammys, an Emmy, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2002, he became the fifth recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. This tribute highlights some of his career through quotes, biography, and news articles.   
fuddy-duddy
Dr. Robert 'Bob' Hartley: [Asking if he's predictable] Would you call me a fuddy-duddy?
Howard Borden: Okay... you're a fuddy-duddy! Ha-ha-ha! Dr. Robert 'Bob' Hartley: No, Howard... Do you think I have trouble dealing with changes? – The Bob Newhart Show
alliteration
Dr. Robert Hartley: Nothing made sense in this place. I mean, the maid was an heiress, her husband talked in alliteration, the handyman kept missing the point of things. And there were these three woodsmen. But only one of them talked.
– Newhart
aspire
Papa Elf: …there are only three jobs available to an elf. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.
Disgruntled Cobbler Elf: Lazy bum! Couldn't even make a clog! Papa Elf: You can bake cookies in a tree. [Cuts to exterior view of a tree, which bursts into flames] Papa Elf: But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every elf aspires to. And that is to build toys in Santa's workshop. – Elf
inspire
Sheldon Cooper: This is my girlfriend, Amy. Amy, this is television legend, Arthur Jeffries. His science show inspired millions of children.
Arthur Jeffries: Hold... hold... hold on, you... you have a girlfriend? – The Big Bang Theory
emanate
Bernard: Well, if I were a pirate, that's just where I'd hide the Devil's Eye. Eh, I'll go over and–check it out. [as Bernard approaches the hole, a loud gurgling sound emanates from it; he starts to back away]
Bernard: Come– [clears throat] Bernard: Come to think of it, if I was a pirate, I wouldn't, I wouldn't hide anything back there. – The Rescuers
neophyte
[Newhart] was a show-business neophyte when he stammered his way to fame in 1960. He went on to star in two of TV’s most memorable sitcoms.
– The New York Times
sitcom
[Newhart] was a show-business neophyte when he stammered his way to fame in 1960. He went on to star in two of TV’s most memorable sitcoms.
– The New York Times
wane
Over the course of five decades, Newhart’s popularity rarely waned, whether it was as the recording star of the comedy album "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart" (the first comedy album to win the Grammy for album of the year), the lead in two top-rated television sitcoms, or a supporting actor in movies including "Catch-22" (in which he played the timid Maj. Major), "Cold Turkey" and "Elf."
– CNN
eccentric
From 1972 to 1978, he starred in the hit sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show." He played the character Robert "Bob" Hartley, Ph.D. (Newhart), a Chicago psychologist who is surrounded by eccentric patients, work colleagues, friends, and family members. Hartley was effectively the "straight man" to the wacky characters surrounding him.
– IMDb
comedian
"Somehow there’s a connection between numbers and music and comedy. I don’t know what it is, but I know it’s there," he once said in an interview with a college business professor. "I know it’s a case of 2 and 2 equals 5 in terms of a comedian. You take this fact and you take that fact and then you come up with this ludicrous fact."
– The Hollywood Reporter
character
From 1982 to 1990, Newhart starred in a second hit sitcom, called simply "Newhart." He played the character Dick Loudon, a Vermont-based innkeeper who finds himself surrounded by strange employees, neighbors, and competitors. The show had a famous ending where the entire series is "revealed" to be a dream of Robert Hartley, Newhart's character from his first sitcom.
– IMDb
nominate
He was nominated for a total of nine Emmys throughout the course of his career. The actor and comedian was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1993, and has had his material added to the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He won the Kennedy Center’s 2002 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
– CNN
induct
He was nominated for a total of nine Emmys throughout the course of his career. The actor and comedian was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1993, and has had his material added to the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He won the Kennedy Center’s 2002 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
– CNN
humor
He was nominated for a total of nine Emmys throughout the course of his career. The actor and comedian was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1993, and has had his material added to the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He won the Kennedy Center’s 2002 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
– CNN
recurring
In 2013, Newhart started playing the recurring character Arthur Jeffries (stage name "Professor Proton") in the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" (2007–). This role won Newhart his first Primetime Emmy Award.
– IMDb
deadpan
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.…Newhart was an anomaly. His outlook was modern, but he rarely raised his voice above a hesitant, almost stammering delivery.
– AP News
anomaly
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.…Newhart was an anomaly. His outlook was modern, but he rarely raised his voice above a hesitant, almost stammering delivery.
– AP News |
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