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Jimmy Kimmel Jokes To Jon Stewart: “You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourself, You Said You Were Retiring” In Touching Tribute To Bob Newhart


Jimmy Kimmel offered a sweet and emotional tribute to Bob Newhart during the Emmys, with a twist. Kimmel came on after the In Memoriam section to laud Newhart, who died in July at the age of 94. But the late-night host also managed to get a jibe in to his peer Jon Stewart, who beat […]

But the late-night host also managed to get a jibe in to his peer Jon Stewart, who beat him to win the Emmy for Talk Series with The Daily Show. “[Bob] got his first Emmy nomination in 1962 and didn’t win one until 2013, 51 years later, which is a great lesson. When we remember the legends we’ve lost over the past year, one of whom I was very lucky to know, and that was Bob Newhart.

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