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I'm tv critic David Biancouli.
Today we're remembering Bob Newhart, the comedian and tv sitcom star who died last Thursday at age 94.
Well, listen back to a conversation between him and Terry Gross from 1998, and we'll begin with this appreciation.
Bob Newhart was one of the most successful and durable stars in the history of television.
He first appeared on tv in the 1950s as a guest on Hugh Hefner's syndicated series Playboy's Penthouse.
In the sixties, he had a Peabody winning variety series.
In the seventies, he starred for several successful seasons on the Bob Newhart show, playing psychologist Bob Hartley.
In the eighties, he starred in another multi year hit playing a Vermont innkeeper.
He had other sitcoms in the nineties, then spent the 21st century playing recurring roles on everything from ER and Desperate Housewives to the sitcoms the Big Bang Theory and as late as 2020, young Sheldon.
He also was a standout supporting player in such films as Elf and Catch 22.
Bob Newhart's career stretched over most of a century, yet he didn't enter show business until he was 30, when he stepped on stage as a stand up comic for the first time.
Bob Newhart was a former accountant in Chicago working as an advertising copywriter.
At parties, he would do little comic routines and taped some of them for the fun of it.
Somehow the tapes ended up at Warner Bros.