Tags: Comedian.

George Robert Bob Newhart (born September 5 1929) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery Newhart came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was a worldwide bestseller and reached number one on the Billboard pop album chart—it remains the 20th best-selling comedy album in history.

Comedian_Bob_Newhart.jpg
birth date
1929-09-05
birth place
Oak Park Illinois, United States
genre
Satire, Deadpan
influenced
Jay Leno, Norm Macdonald, Johnny Carson, Ray Romano, Lewis Black, Tom Rhodes, David Steinberg, Conan O'Brien, Ellen DeGeneres, Chris Rush
influenced by
James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Jack Benny, H. Allen Smith, Max Shulman, Shelley Berman
ISNI Id
0000000114412215
LCCN Id
n87929029
nationality
United States

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