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Bob Newhart The Life and Laughter of an American Treasure | 27.51 MB
Title: Bob Newhart The Life and Laughter of an American Treasure
Author: Michael Seth Starr
Category: Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography & Memoir, Television
Language: English | 345 Pages | ISBN: 9780806544588
Description:
Long live the King of Deadpan! The first-ever biography of one of the most influential comedians in show business whose extraordinary, nearly 65-year run made him an American treasure.Why did Chicago-born accountant George Robert Newhart go into comedy? In his own words, it was because he "wasn't a very good accountant." A wise move. In 1961, his album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, recorded the year before at his debut stand-up gig in a small club in Houston, won two Grammy Awards, was a multimillion-copy bestseller, reached number one on the Billboard charts, saved Warner Bros. Records from extinction, and introduced America to the self-effacing, mild-mannered everyman with a deadpan stammer. His ingenious sketches of his timeless one-sided telephone conversations vaulted Bob Newhart into the big time. He didn't rest on his laurels . . .
Newhart sailed through the 1960s and early 1970s with a busy stand-up touring schedule, an Emmy and...
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