R.I.P. Bob Newhart

[Puller]

One of the funniest men who ever lived has passed. Thanks for the laughs, Sir.

He passed again?

 

[Krogen]

Bob Newhart and Tim Conway. The best of the best. Two immensely creative and funny men that make me hurt from laughing.

 

[Thiokol]

He's on my Mt. Rushmore of comedy. Carlin, Pryor, Newhart. Last spot I can't decide. Probably Chappelle. With honorable mentions to Brooks and Dangerfield.

Look at the youtube videos of John Pinette. He would get my vote.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

Steven Wright too. Frank Gorshin did a fantastic Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas among others. I know he was an impressionist but he made me laugh pretty good. You know all these comedians we mentioned all used no foul language or politics in their acts. Except Carlin
who was very funny but got pretty mean in his older years.


Rick

 

[Rudi]

As Dan Akroyd said, "still dead".

 

[S-W4EVER]

I wouldn't include Carlin in that group. His career eventually digressed into a very despondent diatribe against the government that wasn't funny, at least to me.

Probably because his humor was so prophetic.

 

[rockquarry]

Bob Newhart and Tim Conway. The best of the best. Two immensely creative and funny men that make me hurt from laughing.

Bob Newhart and Tim Conway. The best of the best. Two immensely creative and funny men that make me hurt from laughing.

Big difference. Bob Newhart was funny. Tim Conway was silly.

 

[bigride]

Is Fozzy Bear still alive? He and the two old guys in the balcony kept me in stitches.

 

[John in Yuma]

That's how I wanna go!
With half the crowd not knowing I'm gone and composing heartfelt goodbye sentiments, and the other half feeling smug 'cause they knew it all along.
Bob would be amused.

 

[Phenix]

Just found out that Queen Elisabeth died

Prayers sent

And Lady Diana. Now there was a looker!

 

[SMSgt]

Big difference. Bob Newhart was funny. Tim Conway was silly.

A laugh is a laugh.

 

[Smoke]

Just the other day I saw Elvis.
I asked him are you really gonna eat all those cheeseburgers?

If Elvis were alive today he'd be 90 years old



I saw Elvis in Walmart once

 

[Puller]

If Elvis were alive today he'd be 90 years old



I saw Elvis in Walmart once

The part with "Elvis" singing with the elderly lady was just stinking awesome!

 

[S-W4EVER]

The comic that really made me laugh, more than any other was Jerry Clower. As a kid in DFW they’d play clips of him on the radio periodically.

After moving to the Pacific Northwest I bought his cassette tapes to enjoy. When I went back to the Academy for some advanced training I played those tapes for my roommate, who had never heard of Jerry Clower. I transferred a couple years later but every time our paths crossed, he’d ask me on the car-to-car, “Have you seen Marcel?”.

Who doesn’t love good, clean humor? R.I.P. Jerry Clower

 

['79 Magnum GT]

The comic that really made me laugh, more than any other was Jerry Clower. As a kid in DFW they’d play clips of him on the radio periodically.

After moving to the Pacific Northwest I bought his cassette tapes to enjoy. When I went back to the Academy for some advanced training I played those tapes for my roommate, who had never heard of Jerry Clower. I transferred a couple years later but every time our paths crossed, he’d ask me on the car-to-car, “Have you seen Marcel?”.

Who doesn’t love good, clean humor? R.I.P. Jerry Clower

Never heard of him. bummer, Was he local?

Rick

 

[AJ]

Except Carlin
who was very funny but got pretty mean in his older years.


Rick

Probably because his humor was so prophetic.

Carlin just got mean and meaner. Especially after his wife passed. I loved his stuff in the beginning.

Newhart was great his whole career!

 

[AJ]

Never heard of him. bummer, Was he local?

Rick

Jerry Clower was funny that heck!

 

[S-W4EVER]

Never heard of him. bummer, Was he local?

Rick

If Route 4, Liberty, Mississippi is local (to you). He was “the Mouth of the South” & he’s on YT.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

If Route 4, Liberty, Mississippi is local (to you). He was “the Mouth of the South” & he’s on YT.

Ahh, Interstate 90 isn't very close at all.

 

[S-W4EVER]

Although not standup, I also found “Roy D. Mercer” funny, a couple DJ’s out of Tulsa, OK. Man do I like Southern humor.