TMC
01-09-2018, 04:00 AM
"I Call It a 'Dave Chappelle'"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-newhart-why-he-quit-hollywood-winning-tvs-first-golden-globe-i-call-it-a-dave-chappelle-1072296
The 88-year-old comedy icon, a key figure in 'Mrs. Maisel,' says the pressure was too great to maintain the quality of his first NBC variety show.
With the Golden Globes celebrating its 75th anniversary today, few might remember which comedy legend was the awards' very first "best TV star" back in 1962.
That honor went to Bob Newhart, who won for The Bob Newhart Show. Not the classic CBS sitcom from the '70s in which Newhart played a psychiatrist (also called The Bob Newhart Show), but rather an NBC variety show that ran for one season in 1961, and which came out of the blockbuster success of Newhart's 1960 comedy album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.
Newhart, 88, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about those overwhelming days of breakout stardom (which he says led to pulling a "Dave Chappelle" and walking away), his key role in the new Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and his memories of best friend Don Rickles, whom he lost last April.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-newhart-why-he-quit-hollywood-winning-tvs-first-golden-globe-i-call-it-a-dave-chappelle-1072296
The 88-year-old comedy icon, a key figure in 'Mrs. Maisel,' says the pressure was too great to maintain the quality of his first NBC variety show.
With the Golden Globes celebrating its 75th anniversary today, few might remember which comedy legend was the awards' very first "best TV star" back in 1962.
That honor went to Bob Newhart, who won for The Bob Newhart Show. Not the classic CBS sitcom from the '70s in which Newhart played a psychiatrist (also called The Bob Newhart Show), but rather an NBC variety show that ran for one season in 1961, and which came out of the blockbuster success of Newhart's 1960 comedy album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.
Newhart, 88, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about those overwhelming days of breakout stardom (which he says led to pulling a "Dave Chappelle" and walking away), his key role in the new Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and his memories of best friend Don Rickles, whom he lost last April.