Bus driver school bob newhart biography
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As I said there was a thing in the paper tonight about documentaries. And I’ve had an idea for a long time for what I think is a wonderful documentary which has everything. For instance, you go to work, you come home at night and you never really think about it. It's mechanical, it's routine. But there are a group of men who everyday, when they go to work, never know if that night they’ll return because they face death in a hundred different ways and I’m talking about America’s driving instructors. And I’d like to present the first episode in the new TV series "The Driving Instructor". Now I’d like to have you picture, if you would, this is a car, I’m the driving instructor and seated next to me is a woman driver.
How do you do, you are Mrs. Webb, is that right? Oh, I see you’ve had one lesson already. Who was the instructor on that, Mrs. Webb? Mr. Adams. I’m sorry, here it is: Mr. Adams. Just let me re
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Bob Newhart
Nationality
Spouse
Virginia Quinn (m. 1963; d. 2023)
George Robert Newhart (September 5, 1929 – July 18, 2024) was an American comedian and actor. He was known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style. Beginning as a stand-up comedian, he transitioned his career to acting in television. He received numerous accolades, including three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2002.[3]
Newhart came to prominence in 1960 when his record album of comedic monologues, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, became a bestseller and reached number one on the Billboard pop album chart; it remains the 20th-best-selling comedy skiva in history.[4] The follow-up skiva, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! was also a success, and the two albums held the Billboard number one and number two spots simultaneously.[5]
Newhart hosted a
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Bye, Bob
TV
Farewell to a legendary straight man
When people wax rhapsodic about the greatness of Bob Newhart — which is a thing that happens often, albeit not half as often as it should — they tend to focus on his standup records and/or his run on The Bob Newhart Show (1972-'78). My gateway to Bob's brilliance was Newhart, the 1982-'90 sitcom that featured its titular star as an innkeeper in a small Vermont town where he was perpetually beset and beleaguered bygd an assortment of backwoods weirdos whose eccentricities made each and every one of them a natural foil for his absolutely lethal comedic timing as arguably the greatest straight man in television history.
I watched and loved Newhart as a (strange) teenager who had (perhaps excessively) rose-colored memories of my early ungdom in extreme upstate New Jersey, and who yearned to escape the concrete suburbia of the Bay Area and get back to the Northeastern woods. The show's absurd/idyllic setting was enough to co