R.I.P. Bob Newhart, dead at 94

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1xe8p1pq1o

 

[Astronuc]

I just saw the announcement

Bob Newhart, Dean of the Deadpan Delivery, Dies at 94​

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bob-newhart-dean-deadpan-delivery-194135531.html

 

[Vanadium 50]

Professor Proton?

 

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Professor Proton?

Among MANY other roles, most of them great. I still remember him from the very late 50's when he put out his first comedy album and had, among other skits, a hilarious one about Abe Lincoln on the phone with his agent.



EDIT: It was 1960, not quite the late 50's

 

[Vanadium 50]

He got an Emmy for Professor Proton. Inexplicably, not for anything else. Not The Bob Newhart Show. Not Newhart. Go figure.

 

[Bystander]

"Judson?"

 

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[fresh_42]

He got an Emmy for Professor Proton. Inexplicably, not for anything else. Not The Bob Newhart Show. Not Newhart. Go figure.

But he won 3 Grammys in 1961 and the Sir Peter Ustinov Award in 1998.
Judson only brought him a nomination in 2009 for The Curse of the Judas Chalice. What does that tell us about the value of Emmys? Judson was far better than his appearance in TBBT.