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Bob Newhart, Comedy Icon, Dies at 94
Bob Newhart, the genteel comic whose TV series “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart” were huge hits throughout the 1970s and '80s, died Thursday.
In his deadpan, stammering delivery as well as in his subject matter, Newhart was quietly subversive, and he touched a nerve both in urban areas and elsewhere. Newhart worked in movies (“Hot Millions,”“On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” “Catch-22,” “Cold Turkey”), guested regularly on television and appeared in Las Vegas for the next several years before his hit sitcoms. Newhart was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame in 1993, and the comic won the second Mark Twain Prize for Humor, presented by the Kennedy Center, in 2002.
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