Meet An "Amazing" Who Still Makes Us Laugh

Bob Newhart, at 89, performed at the first-ever Minneapolis Comedy Fest, thus continuing a career that’s been a hit on records, stage, TV and film since his first best-selling comedic album “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” in the 1960s. His “Bob Newhart Show” and many others kept us laughing for decades, right up until his more recent appearances as Professor Proton in “The Big Bang Theory,” for which he received his first Emmy in 2013.

A Korean War Vet, Bob started off his post-military life as an accountant, then became an advertising copywriter, which morphed into a recorded series of supposed telephone calls about ridiculous situations. Those recordings became audition tapes that landed him a contract with Warner Bros. Records. And the rest, well, is comedy-history.

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