He probably wasn’t the first comedian to do the one side of a phone conversation bit, but nobody ever did it better than Bob Newhart. I loved how he’d slip a quick one into his sitcoms. Always funny, and the deadpan delivery was consistently perfect.
I still recall watching this skit on a black and white tele when I was a kid. I thought it was hilarious. I still do. Throughout his career he was never rude or disparaging. Never yelled. Never swore. Just pure comedy. RIP Bob. Another of the greats gone.
I came straight here, too, after reading the sad news. As a kid, I used to listen to his recordings with my Dad (born the same year as Bob). This is a classic. RIP. ❤
I love how he's also dressed like an Elizabethan while mentioning modern technology in the skit. "Wanna get on the intercom? I don't want the boys to miss this!" And the way he's describing the uses of tobacco and coffee, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the Europeans initially thought it was ridiculously funny, too. God bless you, Bob Newhart. We love you so much!
Just starting, don't want a habit but it's become very pleasant. I like the old puritan song "tobacco is but an Indian weed" for its anti smoking message. It's stuffy and stuck up but there is no lie spoken
Seriously, I heard this as a boy and it put me completely off smoking. My friends all smoked and all the other men in my family did as still do. I just thought of how ridiculous he made it sound. Thank you, Mr. Newhart.
It's worth keeping in mind this was aired during the era when tobacco companies were major sponsors of television shows and were pictured in almost every movie, much like pharmaceutical companies today.
I remember listening to this over 50 years ago when in college. It’s just as funny now as it was then. The reason I got to listen to it recently was because it was referenced in a comment on the equally funny sketch on TH-cam in which Rowan Atkinson ( Mr Bean) is the editor and Hugh Laurie ( Dr House) is Shakespeare. They are discussing ways of shortening Shakespeare’s Hamlet play and if you like Bob Newhart then you’ll like the Shakespeare sketch.
@@laytonjames9741 Thanks for reminding me about that sketch. I watched it some time ago, now I'll watch it again. Love Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder and Hugh Laurie with Stephen Fry in 'A bit of Fry and Laurie'.
One of the best comedians every. It is difficult to wrap my head around is that he had comedy albums that were that not only spent weeks at #1 on the Billboard Charts but he won a Grammy for Album of the Year. Has any other comedian outperformed all the musical acts of their time?
Never saw this. Very funny! Apparently noone questions the exstence of 16th-century telephones, not-to-mention either wireless -transmission or a transatlantic-cable. That's part of the fun, though. Very clever & imaginative solo-skit, showing how humor can be extracted from even the simplest of premises!
i remember this from when i was a kid. my mom used to listen to a bay area comedy radio show on saturdays. there was one about king kong, someone going up the empire state building's elevator and saying "i'm at his navel now." i remember my mom laughing so hard. good memories.
Ever since he passed away, there have been a lot of videos on You Tube of him. He was before my time, and I can see he was hilarious. And clean. No foul language or jokes from him. (Hint, hint, to today's foul-mouth "comedians.")
As a hard core baseball fan I always enjoyed his explanation of the new game he invented, baseball, while trying to market it to Parker Bros. (for instance).
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What's always got me about this is the audience laughing at exactly what you do do with tobacco - spend a lot of money on something and then set fire to it (and destroying your health and possibly others' at the same time). I know someone who died in her early 40s leaving three small children. Died of lung cancer but had never smoked. Her husband did and he'd effectively killed her leaving their children without their mother.
Small historical flag on the sketch -- Coffee started in the Middle East and spread from there to Europe and the Americas through smuggling fertile seeds out of Yemen.
Also Fall is not used in England for the season after Summer but Autumn, and Goldenrod I believe not a native plant to England either. But its still a extremely funny sketch.
Fall was used as term for Autumn in the time of Shakespeare. It appears to be, along with Trash meaning Rubbish, an Americanism which originated in England but fell out of favour in the UK but took root in the US.
This sketch makes me think of an intergalactic traveller who 'phones' his home planet and tries to explain the peculiarities (insanities) of the practices and 'beliefs' of people and systems on Earth. They would be much more incredulous, as I find myself than the characters in this sketch. The sketch is funnier than the 'reality' on Earth... sadly. But, enjoy!
What is the difference twixt Bob and so many 'comedians' in the States and the U.K. today? Just relied on his comical talent to make people laugh, unlike today's mob who cannot do their act without swearing and smut.
So called comedians swear because they cannot produce genuinely funny humour so they try to make up for the 'shortfall' in their content to try to impress their audiences.
Oh for the days that a "comedian" could lay people in the ailes, clutching their sides in stitches of laughter with out a single use of the sexual verb or other gratuitous profanity. I'm thinking of course here of "Captain Potty Mouth", Billy Connolly. Of course there are plenty of others but you get the drift.
He did make one mistake, he is supposed to be English and when Wally was telling him he bought 80 tons of leaves he said, "We have plenty of leaves here in England, then his next attempted sentence was "Come Fall" the term "Fall" is American, the seasons are called Spring, Summer, AUTUMN and Winter, The English refer to Fall as "Autumn" How do people smoke? while this is hilarious, it is also 100% factual about the stupidity of smoking!!
He probably wasn’t the first comedian to do the one side of a phone conversation bit, but nobody ever did it better than Bob Newhart. I loved how he’d slip a quick one into his sitcoms. Always funny, and the deadpan delivery was consistently perfect.
RIP Bob Newhart (1929-2024)😢
Heard this 50 years ago and STILL LOVE IT!!!!
Yes indeed. I just loved "it's nutty Walt from the colonies".
My favorite. Stop it skit.
We don’t go there
My favourite Bob Newhart sketch. Sheer genius, because all he is doing is telling the truth.
" Set fire to it Walt "
RIP.
I still recall watching this skit on a black and white tele when I was a kid. I thought it was hilarious. I still do. Throughout his career he was never rude or disparaging. Never yelled. Never swore. Just pure comedy. RIP Bob. Another of the greats gone.
Agreed. No bad language, just making history fun and funny.😊
thank you for your comment, just perfect.
Still think about this from time to time. Haven't seen it since I was a kid. 😊
Went straight to this skit after hearing the sad news that Bob Newhart passed away. RIP.
me too!
RIP Bob
thanks
I did too! My favorite skit.
Me too. Always loved this skit when I was a kid.
Just heard the sad news.
I looked for it right away as well
I came straight here, too, after reading the sad news. As a kid, I used to listen to his recordings with my Dad (born the same year as Bob). This is a classic. RIP. ❤
One of the grestest comedic minds ever. One hundred years from now people will still laugh at his genius.
Exquisite timing. He’s even a legend over here in the UK.
He certainly is, and this one is my most favourite of all.
I love how he's also dressed like an Elizabethan while mentioning modern technology in the skit. "Wanna get on the intercom? I don't want the boys to miss this!" And the way he's describing the uses of tobacco and coffee, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the Europeans initially thought it was ridiculously funny, too. God bless you, Bob Newhart. We love you so much!
When somebody pointed out his stutter, his reply was, "That stutter got me a place in Bel Air."
The very best dead pan comedian of all time. I can watch Newhart the series over and over
Never fails to make me laugh, no matter how times I hear it!
Still funny after all these years. What a genius.
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In psychology and I took a year-and-a-half of it...
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Great. Also loved the one called ‘The Driving Instructor’.
I loved the wig skit he did with Dean Martin: so funny.
Rest in Peace, Bob, and thanks for all the laughs.
I remember back in the 70's my dad had this on a cassette which he used to play in his car. It was hilarious then and is still hilarious today.
RIP Bob... funny, funny man and lovely with it 🥰
a brilliantly funny comedian. Clean fun with a wonderful take on the absurd
This is my favorite Newhart skit!
After listening tp this quite a few times, what strikes me as so funny is how he calls Walter Raleigh 'Walt'...!
Walt-baby, even......
This should be mandatory viewing for anyone thinking of taking up smoking.
"Put that in your pipe and smoke it" was a common expression after someone was trying to make a point about something, back in my day!
Or snuff!
Just starting, don't want a habit but it's become very pleasant. I like the old puritan song "tobacco is but an Indian weed" for its anti smoking message. It's stuffy and stuck up but there is no lie spoken
Seriously, I heard this as a boy and it put me completely off smoking. My friends all smoked and all the other men in my family did as still do. I just thought of how ridiculous he made it sound.
Thank you, Mr. Newhart.
It's worth keeping in mind this was aired during the era when tobacco companies were major sponsors of television shows and were pictured in almost every movie, much like pharmaceutical companies today.
Tobacco ads were banned in 1971. Your problem with drugs that save lives is - what?
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How does the 'little purple pill' save lives? 🍷🚬💊
Remember my dad had these on records and l remember lustening to them when l was tiny thanks for making me and my dad laugh rip two great Bob”s❤
Someone told me about this and she and I watched it together… Bob Newhart is such a funny man!
the lines are perfect the delivery even better!
All true and all hilarious - then and still! R.I.P. Bob Newhart. You were the best!
I totally forgot about this,Is still funny as hell 30 years after I first heard it.
"You got another winner for us?" Pops into my mind in work situations all the time
One of the funniest things ever! I had no idea it was on video as well. :-) Such wonderful gentle nutty humour. :-)
Brilliant! So good to laugh
Possibly the best, at least one of. Best dead pan ever.
Hardly dead pan. Never seen so much smiling.
the best comedy sketch ever.
I remember listening to this over 50 years ago when in college. It’s just as funny now as it was then. The reason I got to listen to it recently was because it was referenced in a comment on the equally funny sketch on TH-cam in which Rowan Atkinson ( Mr Bean) is the editor and Hugh Laurie ( Dr House) is Shakespeare. They are discussing ways of shortening Shakespeare’s Hamlet play and if you like Bob Newhart then you’ll like the Shakespeare sketch.
@@laytonjames9741 Thanks for reminding me about that sketch. I watched it some time ago, now I'll watch it again. Love Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder and Hugh Laurie with Stephen Fry in 'A bit of Fry and Laurie'.
Hugh Dennis brought me here.
This routine is going to improve further as humanity evolves!
Depending which way the evolution goes!
A comic genius…… never heard of this guy before, looking forward to seeing more sketches on TH-cam 👌🏻
One of the best comedians every. It is difficult to wrap my head around is that he had comedy albums that were that not only spent weeks at #1 on the Billboard Charts but he won a Grammy for Album of the Year. Has any other comedian outperformed all the musical acts of their time?
Oh, you’re kidding? Bob Newhart? A comic master!
Oh that was just soooo funny. lol-ing big time!! I had to play it again to catch all the bits I missed from laughing so loud!
A genius. Great in Big Bang Theory too. He and Tom Lehrer were so funny and sardonic.
If you relax, take time to watch this, better to close your eyes and just listen, hilarious LOL
This is great, Thank you for uploading!
Bob Newhart such a great actor
Bob Newhart could make me laugh just standing there blinking with that 'huh?' look on his face. Only comedian who could. May he RIP
Never saw this. Very funny! Apparently noone questions the exstence of 16th-century telephones, not-to-mention either wireless -transmission or a transatlantic-cable. That's part of the fun, though. Very clever & imaginative solo-skit, showing how humor can be extracted from even the simplest of premises!
He is a comedy legend here in the US!! I’ve loved him for over 50 years.
He was a master at this style of comedy. If you can, have a listen to USS Codfish and Defusing a Bomb. Hilarious
A comment in The History Guy's program about Coffee got me here!
The Telephone . Use of. to communicate. But let us get pass that. Wonderfully funny. My memory was always via the radio.
Absolute classic.
i remember this from when i was a kid. my mom used to listen to a bay area comedy radio show on saturdays. there was one about king kong, someone going up the empire state building's elevator and saying "i'm at his navel now." i remember my mom laughing so hard. good memories.
Going to Chicago next week cant wait to visit his statue, truly the funniest human to ever live.
Absolutely Great. I really miss his humor.
It's nutty Wally again. . .
This had to be the late 50's early 60's. At least as far as I recall seeing it then
I remember this from decades ago, and it's still funny. Coffee didn't come from the New World, but who cares? It works.
Comic genius.
Ever since he passed away, there have been a lot of videos on You Tube of him. He was before my time, and I can see he was hilarious. And clean. No foul language or jokes from him. (Hint, hint, to today's foul-mouth "comedians.")
As a hard core baseball fan I always enjoyed his explanation of the new game he invented, baseball, while trying to market it to Parker Bros. (for instance).
LOL love that voice and face, LOL!!!!
Wonderful! truly hilarious! Peg
great bob newhart RIP
This never got onto network TV because the networks were still running cigarette ads.
What's that Walt? You've forgot to cut the grass? And now you can't find your sundial? Well Walt, what can I say?
Fantastic
why don't the anti smoking lobby use this to discourage smoking?
Especially the line "...you put it between the lips and you set fire to it..?
+steevenfrost OK Steve, we will. I just found this and I help people quit smoking. I will be using this. Thanks for the suggestion.
I teach therapists who are going to help people quit, and I always show them this.
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Hey, Steve Bez-I could also go through a dictionary and throw a bunch of words together, assuming I wanted people to conclude I’m stupid.
What's always got me about this is the audience laughing at exactly what you do do with tobacco - spend a lot of money on something and then set fire to it (and destroying your health and possibly others' at the same time). I know someone who died in her early 40s leaving three small children. Died of lung cancer but had never smoked. Her husband did and he'd effectively killed her leaving their children without their mother.
Absolutely brilliant. Burning leaves, roasted beans and water in a bottle. Trust me, they'll buy it. That's how we got here.
Was there an other or an extended version where Sir Walter rings up about a potato.
The real challenge for him must have been how to end these skits.
RIP Bob Newhart. An old school comedian still able to mix it with the best of today c.f. The Big Bang Theory.
'Nutty Walt' brilliant.
Yes l did that too, only just heard in UK, a very clever man, RIP
Small historical flag on the sketch -- Coffee started in the Middle East and spread from there to Europe and the Americas through smuggling fertile seeds out of Yemen.
Also Fall is not used in England for the season after Summer but Autumn, and Goldenrod I believe not a native plant to England either.
But its still a extremely funny sketch.
Fall was used as term for Autumn in the time of Shakespeare. It appears to be, along with Trash meaning Rubbish, an Americanism which originated in England but fell out of favour in the UK but took root in the US.
Ryan Ramage....never let facts get in the way of a good story Ryan!
RIP to the GREATEST!!!
Luv it !
Brilliant
This is like 40 years ago. Lol
Only Bob :)
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This sketch makes me think of an intergalactic traveller who 'phones' his home planet and tries to explain the peculiarities (insanities) of the practices and 'beliefs' of people and systems on Earth. They would be much more incredulous, as I find myself than the characters in this sketch. The sketch is funnier than the 'reality' on Earth... sadly. But, enjoy!
Oh ‘Sir Walter, Really….!!’…..
So funny!
What is the difference twixt Bob and so many 'comedians' in the States and the U.K. today? Just relied on his comical talent to make people laugh, unlike today's mob who cannot do their act without swearing and smut.
So called comedians swear because they cannot produce genuinely funny humour so they try to make up for the 'shortfall' in their content to try to impress their audiences.
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So very true!
Love this dude,RIP
Still funny after all these years.... seemed a lovely guy too.😢
Tremendous This guy is Tremendous I Said.
The Europeans had tobacco, Bob.
Long- long before The Big Bang Theory.
RIP, Bob
Must see t.v. ( if ya wanna smile)
Nothing dumber than shredding leaves, rolling in paper, putting between your lips and setting fire to it. DUH!!!
You are right. Marijuana is a bad idea!!! Smile!
The same Bob newhart that was a smoker. Still alive at 90!!!
@@TheWedabest He was diagnosed with Hypoxemia some years ago and was told in no uncertain terms that he had to quit, and did.
RIP Bob
Just a factual quibble: Coffee is not from the new world. It is from Africa.
Oh for the days that a "comedian" could lay people in the ailes, clutching their sides in stitches of laughter with out a single use of the sexual verb or other gratuitous profanity. I'm thinking of course here of "Captain Potty Mouth", Billy Connolly. Of course there are plenty of others but you get the drift.
If you cannot laugh at this, then your sense of humour was (surgically) removed at birth :D
Fucking Class act ALL THE WAY!
Funny
RIP bob
He did make one mistake, he is supposed to be English and when Wally was telling him he bought 80 tons of leaves he said, "We have plenty of leaves here in England, then his next attempted sentence was "Come Fall" the term "Fall" is American, the seasons are called Spring, Summer, AUTUMN and Winter, The English refer to Fall as "Autumn"
How do people smoke? while this is hilarious, it is also 100% factual about the stupidity of smoking!!
Me too!