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!
My dad took me to see him in Houston when I was about 12. I already had several of his albums. When I first watched Marvelous Mrs Maisel, and they started the scene in the comedy club with Joel stealing a Newhart routine, I recognized it in the first few words, and knew it was the beginning of the end for Joel🥺‼️‼️
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.
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 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.
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.
1982, not 1992. Yeah, great last episode. I was invited to a party on the night it aired. I said no thanks, I want to see the last episode. " We can watch it during the party ". We did. Two hours later, everyone was still laughing
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.
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.
@@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!!
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.’
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 !!!
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.
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.
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.
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 🙄
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?
Brilliant man his phone sketches were unique and superbly done. RIP
A true genius
RIP Bob. You were one of the greats and one of my very favorite comedians of all time!!
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.
@@raeelsley2984 I have my Newhart albums on cd and Alexa now.
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.
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???
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 ......
My dad took me to see him in Houston when I was about 12. I already had several of his albums.
When I first watched Marvelous Mrs Maisel, and they started the scene in the comedy club with Joel stealing a Newhart routine, I recognized it in the first few words, and knew it was the beginning of the end for Joel🥺‼️‼️
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.
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.
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.
@@mikeskawin30Never resorted to vulgarity! Like Red Skelton, Lucille Ball and many other old school comics…
He was a class act.
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.
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.
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.
1982, not 1992. Yeah, great last episode. I was invited to a party on the night it aired. I said no thanks, I want to see the last episode. " We can watch it during the party ". We did. Two hours later, everyone was still laughing
Lot's wife is the "salt of the earth." 😂
She's a very Saxa lady!
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.
Bob Newhart was so awesome.
I loved the gag with Larry, Daryl and Daryl. And every other Bob Newhart joke ever.
It's going to rain for 40 days and 40 nights. Sounds like summer here in UK.
Truly, a class act.
Looks like you won't be lacking material, Mr. B. Keep up your good work!
I love his “bus driver training” skit. That was so funny.
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 😂
Impeccable phone acting 👌🏻
CLASSIC. Believe we heard this one back in the sixties. Sounds familiar and is a KILLER routine!! ; )
Laughed so much. Be blessed.
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. 😊
@@kreagclar1917An American who loves the Goon Show. You sir are a rarity.
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!?
Noah should have picked the "pay over time" option. 😅😅
I would say this guy was a genius, in today's sense.
There was a "Lot" of humor in this skit.
A boatloat, you might say.
This is still funny as it was back in the day,
Thanks, Bob.
People don't know anymore how good and sharp he was.
I just love it when intelligent people like Mr. Newhart take the p out of religion. That's what it's for, of course.
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.
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.
Getting his scriptural contacts confused but Christians do have a sense of humour & let him off for working it in
“Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Co.” bwahahaha
Is it just me or does he look like Matthew Perry? (or vice-versa)
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.
For a British perspective, check out Eddie Izzard's take on Noah. Pure gold too!
Sounds like a remake of Cosby's Noah and the ark routine from 1963.
His turns on The Big Bang Theory were just classic Newhart. Guy was a genius.
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.
Brilliant.
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."
this is class
Anyone who enjoys this style of comedy should listen to early Shelley Berman. Very much cut out of the same cloth.
Enjoy.
Shell Silverstein made a song about how The Unicorns missed the boat!
Would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much more enjoyable with the aggressive and overt watermarking in 1, 2, 3, 4 places.... in each corner of the video....
he was so great
Buddy, do a battle of the comments video
Raining for forty days and nights. Scotland is is getting a Summer then!
All the kids now called Noah must be confused.
A person has to be really keen to watch something when the screen is cluttered with so many distractions. I wasn’t that keen.
Oh my! No wonder our understanding of the Bible is so confused. . .TV was/is a huge influencer.
A burning bush and Noah?
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.
They broke the mold after this guy. Just smartly funny.
Thank you Bob for entertaining me for 50 years.
Genius.
He got Moses and Noah mixed up.
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
So funny! 😂
The Burning bush was with Moses,not Noah
He got two stories mixed up.
Great skit. Though I tend to prefer the original story from Cuneiform, the Bible mangles it a lot.
Wow
I don't know, I'd have Charged.
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 believe the bible is true but this is still funny .
That was Moses. Burning bush - MOSES!
The bible is a book where all the authors have no last names, what great way to avoid paying taxes.
Well they were Jews
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 😞
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 !!
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
Thanks for ruining this with print across his head 😮
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.
Such subtle atheism that he himself was unaware....
( I bet he read Utnapishtim)
@@paulvr3158 he was Catholic, lifelong.
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.
bob! you're a quick bible reader. who was Moses?
Pretty good - same formula as he used for "Introducing Tobacco To Civilisation".
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.
TH-cam AKA Commercialtube
not so when you got brave
Once again we see that people don't know their Bibles..... a burning bush was with Moses not Noah!!
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" 😂🤣😂🤣
Hold the marmalade
I'd imagine this will trigger American god botherers something awful now 😂
They kind of mixed Noah and Moses in the stories.
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.
What about Bill Cosby's? RiiiiiiiIIIIIIGGHHHTTTTTTTTT! 🤓😎✌🏼
It was a brilliant routine.
Sadly, he felt so far from grace that I can't bear to listen to what were some of my favourite albums as a child 🥺🙂↕️🤯😡🤬
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 🙄
But after the Floods no one laughed. EVEN the fact checkers Drowned.
Bob. Newart.is.he.still.alive
NOAH BODY beats Bob for comedy
How many animals did Moses bring in on the Ark? None.
I think Bob has mistaken Noah for Moses when it came to the burning bush.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
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?