Block again!

I'm sitting,

I'm sitting out in my car in front of a home in Bel Air.

Haven't done this in a while.

And I'm nervous.

When you're going to talk to somebody like Bob Newhart, I mean, I'm a bit in awe. This is a guy that's had an

amazing career on television, but I just spent the morning listening to his first three records, the button down mind Bob Newhart,

return to the button down mind of Bob Newhart and behind the button down mind of Bob Newhart.

Now these all were recorded roughly between 1959 1961.

The first album, The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart, won two Grammys.

1961, the Grammys, when the best, the album of the year, the best new artist, and return on the button down mind,

one best spoken word album the same year.

So this is an amazing amount of output.

And these were huge records and these were game-changing records in

terms of what I see is the evolution from the comedian to the stand-up comedian. I don't think Bob Newhart gets the

proper respect that he should as a stand-up comic and is somebody that really invented

the form of one of the main inventors of the form of

you know American stand-up you know shifting away from joke telling and from you know straight up

comedic entertaining to actually doing

cultural commentary and satire. I mean people are familiar with

or at least familiar with the name of Lenny Bruce or the name of Mortzall.

But this is a little after those guys put out their records that Bob was working and these records are

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