Lock the gates!

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 the button down mind to Bob Newhart,

and behind the button down mind to Bob Newhart.

Now these all were recorded roughly between 1959 and 1961.

The first album, the button down mind to Bob Newhart won two Grammys.

1961, the Grammys.

When the album of the year, the best new artist, and return of the button down mind,

when 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 as 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 as somebody that really invented the form of one of the main inventors of the form of,

American stand-up, shifting away from joke-telling and from straight-up

comedic entertaining to actually doing cultural commentary and satire.

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