And he’s just NOW getting an Emmy??
Ah, the button-down mind of Bob Newhart. Give the man a
stool on an empty stage with only a phone for a prop and he’ll have you howling
over the absurdities of everyday life. He was smart, low-key, and cleanly
funny. Both his long-running weeklies, The
Bob Newhart Show and Newhart were
refreshing changes from the run-of-the-mill silliness that still plagues
sit-coms today. While most plotlines revolve around misunderstandings that lead
to layers of lies, Bob kept it real. He never said a lot. Just his blank-faced
reactions said it all.
A pleasing departure from the norm was his dramatic role in The Librarian, which marked a turn-about
for SNL comedian Jane Curtain as well. I’ve also caught him being serious in
such unlikely places as NCIS and ER.
But that spot on The Big Bang Theory? Priceless. I mean, isn’t
that the way we all react to the insufferable
Sheldon and the sweet but science-challenged Penny?
Maybe it’s because Bob Newhart is so understated. But given
his consistent popularity, ya gotta ask: What the heck took so long? He
deserved that Emmy decades ago!
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