About 35 years ago, I worked in a University town (Western University - London, Ontario, Canada) and Bob Newhart performed at the University. It was the greatest stand-up I had ever seen or will ever see. Newhart will always be the master of deadpan - the art of deriving humour through humourlessness. Yes, Leslie Nielsen was also a master in his own right, but he derived his humour through the absurd, Newhart pulled it from nothing. His greatest comedic achievement...making his entire 1992 series a dream he was having in his 1972 series.
So classic. This guy was so good. He had a knack for just saying things that weren't really jokes, and just straightforward, but, Lord, they are funny.
He remains the only comedian to have won Best New Artist and Album Of The Year at the Grammys 1961. Not one cuss word in his lifelong routines and can have you laughing in tears. That’s genius.
Newhart was in a war movie with James Coburn, Steve McQueen, and a bunch of other stars. He had been transferred in as a replacement...from supply. The troops found a German mic in their outpost and told Newhart to make it sound like he was talking on the phone. He was supposed to make it sound like the outpost was swimming in G.I.s and they had no room for more. Essentially, they had him doing a skit on the phone!
Brit here, not very familiar with Newhart's work (we rarely saw him on British TV alas). This was very good indeed...quite daring for the time, especially in USA! In fact, I wonder if mainstream TV would show such a sketch in some parts of the USA today...?!!
Dear, sweet Bob: Gentle, absurdity-of-life comedy. Seinfeld ended up a grumpy old man. Bob remained the pleasant but slightly confused Everyman. I miss him so.
I remember Bob Newhart's routines being broadcast on radio in the 1960s, when I was a child. I loved his work. He always made me laugh. A briiliant comic talent.
@@freddiefreihofer7716 Over 125,000 documented species.....We're going to need a much larger Ark....NOT to mention something to feed ALL of these animals!....and, or a tribe of people to clean up after ALL of these animals messing up the Ark! PHEW!!
The title says this was in 1969. I heard a recording of this sketch in the early 60s. In that recording some of the dialogue was a little different. One instance where he calls to someone unseen in the room, Newhart tells him to “Pick up the Phone, It’s Nutty Noah! Was this to placate the religious sensitivities? Still brought a titter with my reminiscing.
Was this a tv special, or did he appear on the Smothers Brothers or Dean Martin or some show like that ? I was in the u.s.army in South Korea from 01/1969 - 02/1970, so missed it.
When I was about 8 years the teacher read out the Noah story and I couldn't stop laughing. What are you laughing at Douglas, well sir a farmer building a boat big enough to carry all those animals would take years.
@@julienielsen3746 The unicorn. By The Irish Rovers. “ the arc started moving, it drifted with the tide. Them unicorns looked up from the rocks, and they cried. And the waters came down and sort of floated them away. And that’s why you’ll never see a unicorn, to this very day.’
Bob Newhart was so funny. However, if anyone is interested in the actual story of the great flood and Noah’s ark, I recommend a film that was released on March 20, 2024 called the ark and the darkness. You can find it free on TH-cam.
If I had been that girl, I would not have acknowledged the other sh*t who did that to me. Also, shame on the IOC. She ought to take legal advice on this.
Lot was at the time of Abraham. The burning bush was Moses 400 years after Lot. NOAH was several centuries before Lot. So while the idea of the skit is cute, it really doesn't work.
Honestly, if you tried to explain religion to someone who's never heard of it, they'd think you were daft. Possibly even irritated enough to cook and eat you.
@@YNWA-1 Would that be Christopher Hitchens? I have one of his books, just havent gotten around to reading it yet. But imagine the chutzpah of Christian missionaries in the colonial days! They travel to some far flung south sea island, and try to convince the natives that they need to start believing in a god they've never heard of, or forever suffer in a Hell they've never heard of. "All your historic heathen traditions are wrong and heathenous, so I'm going to explain to you godless heathens how to do things properly." No wonder they were all eaten.
@@MrHantz101 Spot On 🤣 but remember what Paul kept on going on about,’Suffering for Christ’. Wait..What ?? You would have thought Jesus would have said, ‘ Listen up if you don’t follow me and accept me as your personal savior, you are going to burn in Hell for all eternity’. I would think that would be the most important part of the message. Hold on Jesus and let me get something to write this down not 40 years later with Mark and just forgetting that bit 🙄
Anyone been in contact with Ken Ham to have it played on the in-house info videos ?? Then again possibly not.........don't think Ken may have a sense of humour !!!
They would have eventually killed themselves off anyway. They were doing all kinds of evil. Sacrificing their children to their false gods, and abusing themselves and their children. God had to save Noah and his family before it was too late. .
Like telling children that they crawled out of a swamp? Like telling them that when they die they cease to exist? Like telling them there is no right or wrong, no absolutes? These would all make great children stories.
@@redfields5070How silly you religious fundamentalist people are! If you want to sneer at science, then you need to understand it first and you clearly know nothing about science. I expect you refuse to read or listen to anything that might contradict your belief. Aren’t you interested in the truth?
It must have seemed strange when God told Noah to build an ark an fill it with his family along with all the animals. But thro it, mankind was saved to start again.
C'mon...why do you even come on a joke video, about a religious story, just to say this crap? Trolling for attention I guess and I guess you got it. Hope you feel better
As the skit is playing, I am listening to rain outside. The great flood really happen. The whole of the Bible is divinely inspired. there are other writings that depict a great flood, as well. God gives us the rainbow as a promise that the Earth will not be fully destroyed with flood waters, ever again. God knows our hearts, and when he returns, he will be taking those who truly love him to heaven before he pours his wrath down upon the Earth, in the great tribulation, however. May you recognize yourself as a sinner in need of the one and only Savior, Jesus Christ. Confess him to be your Lord and Savior and turn from your sins. He is just to forgive you of your sins. God bless you.
Isn’t it comforting to know that God won’t destroy the Earth with water again but all other methods are on the table.😂 Too bad the ancient Israelites couldn’t have come up with an original story. They borrowed it from the Babylonians.
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My family would gather around the hi-fi and listen to Bobs albums when he was just starting. He captivated a generation.
I still have mine.
He was a class act.
Newhart was a genius. There will never be anyone like him.
He was such a funny man!
Too true
exactly! what i said on another video :) 😋
@@Greeley.dI really miss him. I grew up with the Bob Newhart sitcoms.
I thought I’d heard all of the Newhart bits but never saw this one. Thank u
Me too
Me Also…I loved his talent ..and nothing vulgar, etc., ..ever…at least what I saw …
These "phone calls" were so funny and so unique😂
@@janmcdonald3896 "Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Ave" and "King Kong" were two of his gems.
He intertwines Noah, Moses, and Lots wife brilliantly.
Amen!
HILARIOUS!!!!!!❤❤❤😂😂😂 r.i.p.
Brilliantly, or confusingly? Wasn't necessary - just for comedic effect.
@@oliviastar3812 Yep, that's what comedians do ......
So talented. Bob Newhart's sitcom was a favorite in my house growing up.
If it wasn't for his 70s sitcom, I would probably never have become a psychologist.
Even though I grew up in the era (born 1940) Never heard of him.....for instead of watching boring TV, I was 'lost' in reading sci/fy tales.
About 35 years ago, I worked in a University town (Western University - London, Ontario, Canada) and Bob Newhart performed at the University.
It was the greatest stand-up I had ever seen or will ever see. Newhart will always be the master of deadpan - the art of deriving humour through humourlessness. Yes, Leslie Nielsen was also a master in his own right, but he derived his humour through the absurd, Newhart pulled it from nothing. His greatest comedic achievement...making his entire 1992 series a dream he was having in his 1972 series.
So classic. This guy was so good. He had a knack for just saying things that weren't really jokes, and just straightforward, but, Lord, they are funny.
I hadn't seen that one before. That was so funny. 'A burning bush told me'. He was good old Bob.
He remains the only comedian to have won Best New Artist and Album Of The Year at the Grammys 1961. Not one cuss word in his lifelong routines and can have you laughing in tears. That’s genius.
Lot's wife is the "salt of the earth." 😂
She's a very Saxa lady!
Newhart was in a war movie with James Coburn, Steve McQueen, and a bunch of other stars. He had been transferred in as a replacement...from supply. The troops found a German mic in their outpost and told Newhart to make it sound like he was talking on the phone. He was supposed to make it sound like the outpost was swimming in G.I.s and they had no room for more. Essentially, they had him doing a skit on the phone!
Hell is for Heroes - th-cam.com/video/7bmMzc28GR8/w-d-xo.html
@@AAA-o4g This video is not made available in my smallish country. So.
Hell is for Heroes.
He does a nearly identical performance in the original Catch-22.
@@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid And he did look kind of like Henry Fonda, like his character (Major Major) in the book.
@@markmaki4460
You mean Major Major Major???
Love all these good memories. Thanks.
Brit here, not very familiar with Newhart's work (we rarely saw him on British TV alas). This was very good indeed...quite daring for the time, especially in USA! In fact, I wonder if mainstream TV would show such a sketch in some parts of the USA today...?!!
Evangelists have a sense of humor. Look who they choose as their new idol. An Orange faced clown.
He was hilarious in everything in everything he did!
He was popular in the UK in the 60s. I had his records. 🇬🇧
What would be the point? Most people don’t know enough about the Bible to get the jokes.
@@greg54444 But you can bet some diehards would be deeply offended, and demand that his skits nev er be seen again.
Dear, sweet Bob: Gentle, absurdity-of-life comedy. Seinfeld ended up a grumpy old man. Bob remained the pleasant but slightly confused Everyman. I miss him so.
Truly, a class act.
As a Brit,l think he was a genius.
I also do, as an American I loved Monty Python, Dave Allen, Young Ones, Beyond the Fringe, and of course the Goon Show. I love the British Humour. 😊
This reminds me of the old Bill Cosby routine about Noah - "right....what's a cubit?" It was funnier but i guessed this one aged better.
I have the vinyl of that recording. It is very funny. “You change one of them!”
@@gregofthelake yeah we had 2 or 3 of his albums when I was a kid. We wore them out.
@@JG-vq6rdYep
"Noah? How long can you tread water?"
@@FrogLegs313 😂
Noah should have picked the "pay over time" option. 😅😅
Looks like you won't be lacking material, Mr. B. Keep up your good work!
There was a "Lot" of humor in this skit.
A boatloat, you might say.
Impeccable phone acting 👌🏻
I remember Bob Newhart's routines being broadcast on radio in the 1960s, when I was a child. I loved his work. He always made me laugh. A briiliant comic talent.
It's going to rain for 40 days and 40 nights. Sounds like summer here in UK.
I love his “bus driver training” skit. That was so funny.
I would say this guy was a genius, in today's sense.
As funny now as when I first heard him 50 years ago. My personal favourite is Sir Walter Raleigh and tobacco.
You roll it up and do WHAT!?
RIP Bob. You were one of the greats and one of my very favorite comedians of all time!!
Bob Newhart was so awesome.
I loved the gag with Larry, Daryl and Daryl. And every other Bob Newhart joke ever.
Laughed so much. Be blessed.
I just love it when intelligent people like Mr. Newhart take the p out of religion. That's what it's for, of course.
Thanks, Bob.
This is still funny as it was back in the day,
CLASSIC. Believe we heard this one back in the sixties. Sounds familiar and is a KILLER routine!! ; )
Noah could have left the two wasps behind!
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!! Soooooo allergic
Nah! Bees and wasps have a purpose. Definitely the two house flies could have been left out.
And ticks and malarial mosquitoes.
@@freddiefreihofer7716 Over 125,000 documented species.....We're going to need a much larger Ark....NOT to mention something to feed ALL of these animals!....and, or a tribe of people to clean up after ALL of these animals messing up the Ark! PHEW!!
A commentor stated "Noah could have left the two wasps behind" to which another wrote "Nah... the two house flies could have been left out."
The title says this was in 1969. I heard a recording of this sketch in the early 60s. In that recording some of the dialogue was a little different. One instance where he calls to someone unseen in the room, Newhart tells him to “Pick up the Phone, It’s Nutty Noah! Was this to placate the religious sensitivities? Still brought a titter with my reminiscing.
For a British perspective, check out Eddie Izzard's take on Noah. Pure gold too!
this is class
Getting his scriptural contacts confused but Christians do have a sense of humour & let him off for working it in
Is it just me or does he look like Matthew Perry? (or vice-versa)
Sounds like a remake of Cosby's Noah and the ark routine from 1963.
he was so great
Raining for forty days and nights. Scotland is is getting a Summer then!
Was this a tv special, or did he appear on the Smothers Brothers or Dean Martin or some show like that ? I was in the u.s.army in South Korea from 01/1969 - 02/1970, so missed it.
Genius.
Shell Silverstein made a song about how The Unicorns missed the boat!
Anyone who enjoys this style of comedy should listen to early Shelley Berman. Very much cut out of the same cloth.
Enjoy.
Brilliant.
“Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Co.” bwahahaha
Oh my! No wonder our understanding of the Bible is so confused. . .TV was/is a huge influencer.
So funny! 😂
I hadn't heard this one before. Reminded me of the one Cosby did, also in the 1960s, if I remember right. He was THE master of dry wit.
Would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much more enjoyable with the aggressive and overt watermarking in 1, 2, 3, 4 places.... in each corner of the video....
Buddy, do a battle of the comments video
Wow
When I was about 8 years the teacher read out the Noah story and I couldn't stop laughing. What are you laughing at Douglas, well sir a farmer building a boat big enough to carry all those animals would take years.
Don't forget the dinosaurs!
And the unicorns. 😊
@@miguelservetus9534 What was the song about the unicorns on the ark?
@@julienielsen3746 The unicorn. By The Irish Rovers. “ the arc started moving, it drifted with the tide. Them unicorns looked up from the rocks, and they cried. And the waters came down and sort of floated them away. And that’s why you’ll never see a unicorn, to this very day.’
@@miguelservetus9534 I sort of remember the song. I couldn't remember who sang it. Thanks.
@@miguelservetus9534 😞
A person has to be really keen to watch something when the screen is cluttered with so many distractions. I wasn’t that keen.
I believe the bible is true but this is still funny .
That was Moses. Burning bush - MOSES!
Well I've learnt something today, I never knew the telephone was invented before Noah built his ark.
I think we can safely say everything was invented before the ark😂
I don't know, I'd have Charged.
The bible is a book where all the authors have no last names, what great way to avoid paying taxes.
Well they were Jews
He got Moses and Noah mixed up.
Pretty good - same formula as he used for "Introducing Tobacco To Civilisation".
2:20 A pot smoking joke on a video that's 4 minutes 20 seconds long. Bob was way ahead of his time.
Not in 1969
The Burning bush was with Moses,not Noah
Bob Newhart was so funny. However, if anyone is interested in the actual story of the great flood and Noah’s ark, I recommend a film that was released on March 20, 2024 called the ark and the darkness. You can find it free on TH-cam.
He probably said that a "burning bush" told him because it might have been considered disrespectful to outright say that G_d told him back then.
You need to get out more
TH-cam AKA Commercialtube
not so when you got brave
Great skit. Though I tend to prefer the original story from Cuneiform, the Bible mangles it a lot.
Hold the marmalade
They broke the mold after this guy. Just smartly funny.
Thank you Bob for entertaining me for 50 years.
Such subtle atheism that he himself was unaware....
( I bet he read Utnapishtim)
@@paulvr3158 he was Catholic, lifelong.
If I had been that girl, I would not have acknowledged the other sh*t who did that to me. Also, shame on the IOC. She ought to take legal advice on this.
Thanks for ruining this with print across his head 😮
Lot was at the time of Abraham. The burning bush was Moses 400 years after Lot. NOAH was several centuries before Lot. So while the idea of the skit is cute, it really doesn't work.
And they didn't have phones. I think you might be ovethinking it.
I'd imagine this will trigger American god botherers something awful now 😂
I think skeevy Bill Cosby stole some of this for his own bit about Noah's Ark.
How do you know it wasn't the other way around?
@@JG-vq6rd Come on. Check the dates.
@Peppi94 didn't care that much, but I assume you took care of that for me. Good job!
@@JG-vq6rdGrow up, dude.
@Peppi94 ok "dude" 😂🤣😂🤣
Once again we see that people don't know their Bibles..... a burning bush was with Moses not Noah!!
Honestly, if you tried to explain religion to someone who's never heard of it, they'd think you were daft. Possibly even irritated enough to cook and eat you.
@@MrHantz101 Sounds like something ‘The Hitch’ would have said 👍🏼
@@YNWA-1 Would that be Christopher Hitchens? I have one of his books, just havent gotten around to reading it yet.
But imagine the chutzpah of Christian missionaries in the colonial days! They travel to some far flung south sea island, and try to convince the natives that they need to start believing in a god they've never heard of, or forever suffer in a Hell they've never heard of. "All your historic heathen traditions are wrong and heathenous, so I'm going to explain to you godless heathens how to do things properly."
No wonder they were all eaten.
@@MrHantz101 Spot On 🤣 but remember what Paul kept on going on about,’Suffering for Christ’. Wait..What ?? You would have thought Jesus would have said, ‘ Listen up if you don’t follow me and accept me as your personal savior, you are going to burn in Hell for all eternity’. I would think that would be the most important part of the message. Hold on Jesus and let me get something to write this down not 40 years later with Mark and just forgetting that bit 🙄
Anyone been in contact with Ken Ham to have it played on the in-house info videos ??
Then again possibly not.........don't think Ken may have a sense of humour !!!
Why don't you think he has a sense of humor? He is human after all.
@@mark4163 Just a wild stab in the dark !!
NOAH BODY beats Bob for comedy
Noah’s Ark : Because the largest and most thorough act of genocide in history makes a great children’s story.
so does the Permian Extinction 🤣
They would have eventually killed themselves off anyway. They were doing all kinds of evil. Sacrificing their children to their false gods, and abusing themselves and their children. God had to save Noah and his family before it was too late. .
Like telling children that they crawled out of a swamp?
Like telling them that when they die they cease to exist?
Like telling them there is no right or wrong, no absolutes?
These would all make great children stories.
@@redfields5070How silly you religious fundamentalist people are!
If you want to sneer at science, then you need to understand it first and you clearly know nothing about science. I expect you refuse to read or listen to anything that might contradict your belief. Aren’t you interested in the truth?
Or you could just lie to them about who gave them the presents at the end of December … bribery, great parenting.
But after the Floods no one laughed. EVEN the fact checkers Drowned.
The canned laughter ruined a great sketch.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It must have seemed strange when God told Noah to build an ark an fill it with his family along with all the animals.
But thro it, mankind was saved to start again.
All religions are fictional 😊
C'mon...why do you even come on a joke video, about a religious story, just to say this crap? Trolling for attention I guess and I guess you got it. Hope you feel better
Satan putting his two cents in. You need Jesus.
@@bunnyluver2176Newhart himself was a Catholic.
God Bless you. Keep reading.
@@julienielsen3746
Actually, we need Cheeses. Lots of yummy cheeses :) .
As the skit is playing, I am listening to rain outside. The great flood really happen. The whole of the Bible is divinely inspired. there are other writings that depict a great flood, as well. God gives us the rainbow as a promise that the Earth will not be fully destroyed with flood waters, ever again. God knows our hearts, and when he returns, he will be taking those who truly love him to heaven before he pours his wrath down upon the Earth, in the great tribulation, however. May you recognize yourself as a sinner in need of the one and only Savior, Jesus Christ. Confess him to be your Lord and Savior and turn from your sins. He is just to forgive you of your sins. God bless you.
Or not.
@@bclaymoore The Pillar of Salt must be true. Happens all the time.
Amen!!!!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Isn’t it comforting to know that God won’t destroy the Earth with water again but all other methods are on the table.😂 Too bad the ancient Israelites couldn’t have come up with an original story. They borrowed it from the Babylonians.
Isn't the burning bush Moses's story?
25 christ-stain butts have been *SERIOUSLY HURT* by this video, so far :) .
I’m a Christian. This is hilarious!
@@sophierobinson2738
Agreed, this is brilliant.
Obviously, you are not among those who disliked this video :) .
Do you really think Christians have no sense of humor?
As a side note, archeological evidence indicates the earth was a water world around 3 billion years ago.
@@mray8519 the great flood was not 3 billion years ago. If it was a complete Waterworld, where did all that water go? HMMM…