Bob Newhart Net Worth

Bob Newhart's Quotes

• Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
• Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.
• [on quitting The Bob Newhart Show (1972) at the end of the fifth season, before CBS wouldn't allow him to do that]: This is no ploy, no device for negotiation. I am absolutely sincere about leaving the series at the end of production this year and CBS has been notified.
• [Who made his reputation and fortune as a monologist]: I like the humor to come out of character. When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.
• [In 1972]: The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.

Interesting Facts about Bob Newhart

1. Newhart insisted that there never be any children for his character to be the father of in each of his television series. "I told the creators I didn't want any children, because I didn't want it to be a show about 'How stupid Daddy is, but we love him so much, let's get him out of the trouble he's gotten himself into.'" In the sixth year of Newhart's CBS series, The Bob Newhart Show (1972), the writers wrote a script in which Emily Hartley was pregnant. When Newhart was asked his opinion of the script, he said, "It's very funny. Who are you going to get to play Bob?".
2. Prior to hitting his success on the comedy circuits in the 1960s, Bob worked as an accountant for a Chicago firm. He hated every minute of it.
3. His 1960 comedy album The Buttoned-Down Mind of Bob Newhart went to #1 on the charts, beating out Elvis Presley and The Sound of Music original Broadway cast album. The album won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for 1960.
4. Father, with Ginny Newhart, of Robert William Newhart, Courtney Newhart, Timothy Tim Newhart and Jennifer Newhart.
5. He has a sister (Sister M. Joan Newhart) who is a nun.
6. His wife, Ginny Newhart, came up with the idea for Newhart: The Last Newhart (1990) (the last episode of Newhart (1982)), in which the entire 1982 series was all a dream of "Dr. Bob Hartley" of The Bob Newhart Show (1972).
7. Guest hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) 87 times.
8. Appeared on The Dean Martin Show (1965) 24 times.
9. Appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" (a.k.a. Toast of the Town (1948)) 8 times.
10. Son-in-law of actor Bill Quinn.
11. Like Bill Cosby, Newhart has the ability to be funny without resorting to profanity. The closest Newhart comes is in his bit "The Driving Instructor," in which he comments, "...I don't suppose it is so damn funny".
12. He was awarded a Kennedy Centre Mark Twain Prize for comedy.
13. Nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award in the best spoken word album category for his album I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!.
14. Every television series he starred in has his name in the title: The Bob Newhart Show (1961), The Bob Newhart Show (1972), Newhart (1982), Bob (1992), and George & Leo (1997) (George is his real first name, Robert is his middle name).
15. Was considered for the role of Andy Stone in Casino (1995).
16. His family surname was "Neuhardt" several generations back. His father was of half German and half Irish descent, and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His paternal grandmother was born in Canada, to Irish immigrants.
17. Good friend of Don Rickles.
18. Graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory School in Chicago, Illinois, in 1947.
19. His idols when he was young were Robert Benchley, Jack Benny and Fred Allen.
20. His parents were Julia Pauline (Burns), a housewife, and George David Newhart, a part-owner of a plumbing and heating-supply business.