Bob Newhart
1929 - 2024
One of the most brilliant comic actors of the 20th century has died. Bob Newhart was 94 years old. He was the star of two of the funniest sitcoms of all time; The Bob Newhart Show, which ran from 1972 to 1978, and Newhart, which began in 1982 and ran until the spring of 1990.
The latter of these two shows had arguably the greatest ending to any series in television history. In the final scene of Newhart, Bob woke up in bed next to Suzanne Pleshette (the actress who played his wife in The Bob Newhart Show). He then described the entire run of Newhart as a dream that his character in The Bob Newhart Show had just woken up from. Watch the video above and tell me if you've ever heard a live studio audience react with such pure shock and joy as they did to the final minutes of this series. It was absolutely brilliant, as was the man who made the world laugh for over sixty years with his work in television and movies [photo by Gerald Smith - NBC].
