I am 83 to hear this again takes me back a bit to when comedy was a joy not like today's sour crap, Bob Newhart was a favourite of mine he made me cry with laughter.
You bet ya Ronnie...His humour is still as good today...I bet you've already seen it but there's a film with Steve McQueen and Bob Newhart made in 1962 called 'Hell is for Heroes'...Great film and the film makers give Newhart a spot in it where he is a US soldier in a small group (with McQueen) and he has to use the radio to give the Germans the impression that there are a lot more US soldiers where they are...It's a brilliant film anyway but Newhart comes into his own in that scene...I uploaded a few different Newhart sound bites on my channel with this one so check them out...Thanks for the comment and...Have fun Ron!...
I'm English and don't normally appreciate American humout but, when I first heard this particular story by Bob Newhart, my husband and I laughed so much we cried. We even bought an LP of his and listened to all that was on it. This was around 40 years ago and, even though I've heard some of these before, they still make me laugh. Thank you so much for sharing. :0)
One of my fondest memories is sitting with my mother and father at a Bob Newhart appearance in the mid-'80s. After he finished and walked off stage, people yelled for more. He came back out and performed this.
I used to listen to this with my dad as he had an LP of Bob Newhart. I was 12 years old and this sketch even at that young age made me laugh each time I heard it. Comedy was one of the few things my dad and I had in common. We also loved Woody Allen's Night Club Years and I still listen to them now.
I've just turned 69 myself, and agree with everything you say. Unfortunately, I started smoking before I heard of BH. But I fully realized the dangers smoking by the time I was 19 and never smoked since.
My sister was 10 years older than I was had chain smoked since she was 13 years old. As Brother Dave Garner who was a popular comedian of that time said, I’d smoke chains if I could light them. When I would go to visit her some times we would stay up visiting nearly all night and she would finish one cigarette 🚬 after another. I only ever saw more than 3 or 4 pictures of her that she didn’t have a cigarette 🚬 in her hand. She died of lung cancer before she was 65 years old. I never smoked at all. I’m now 79 years old and still kicking 🦵🏻 but I sure do miss my big sister. Sometimes I just want to talk to her so badly that it hurts. We had such good times together. I lost my husband after only 10 years of marriage. He was 37 years old and died from a glioblastoma cancer. I got 2 daughters and a son out of the marriage and I live with my oldest daughter and her husband. 👵🏻👵🏻👵🏻
I remember as a child (growing up in Central Africa) the local TV station started broadcasting the Bob Newhart show. Although I was only 10 or 11 years old at the time, I thoroughly enjoyed his dry, unobtrusive humour. His timing was impeccable, and his management of comedic situation has seldom been met - never mind surpassed - by other popular comedians. No matter how many times you listen to this little masterpiece, you can't help but chuckle... the true test of comedic perfection.
I heard this once, maybe 48 years ago, and I still remember some of the stronger punchlines. Bob made comedy for thinking people. His delivery was incremental, to give people time to picture the situation he was describing, and to understand the absurdities.
Hilarious! I first heard this playing in the ladies loo at The Salthouse; Ipswich Waterfront....and just HAD to stay in there til I had heard it all.......that was a long loo visit; but worth it..!!
The best comedians don't have to resort to swearing and bad language. I find it very sad that most modern comedians use crude, offensive language when they don't need to.
Wit and common knowledge is what they used to entertain. They didn't need cheap dirty language and second rate sexual innuendo for everything. They were artists not political or social hate groups.
The best comedians don't have to resort to swearing and bad language. I find it very sad that most modern comedians use crude, offensive language when they don't need to" Exactly, most of the comedians today rely on foul language's or sexually explicit shock value rather than just being funny.
Next week I’m 57 but my first encounter with this comedy genius I was 8 and even now in 2021 it’s right up there with the best of the best from the last three generation’s of comedians worldwide! :0)
My absolute favorite was the phone conversation with Abner Doubleday about the game he invented called baseball. You need a space over 300 feet ?? Y'know the ideal game is y'get 2 or 3 couples come over Sat. Nite sit around the living room - you know Well go ahead and explain (3 strikes you're out and 4 balls y'walk - Why 4 balls Mr Doubleday ? and etc.) comedic genius !!
Never underestimate human stupidity. We are laughing now but smoking kills. And tobaconists laughed all the way to the bank. It almost killed Bob himself until the doctor told him to stop, which he did, with great thanks to the doctor and to Bob himself for winning this battle. He seems to be such a kind man. Love him. Thanks for the video!
People don’t get the simple allusion anymore. Today you have to hit the audience with the baseball bat, spit some heavy duty language and connect them to the laugh button to get any reaction. We human are becoming one stupid mass controlled by cheap entertainment. So saaad.
Not really...it just isn't that funny. This is my first time watching the sketch and it is just barely funny. I almost smiled at the "we have a lot of leaves in England" joke but that was it. I'm sorry but I just find programs like mock the week and Peep show funnier. Although Blackadder beats all
Not really...it just isn't that funny. This is my first time watching the sketch and it is just barely funny. I almost smiled at the "we have a lot of leaves in England" joke but that was it. I'm sorry but I just find programs like mock the week and Peep show funnier. Although Blackadder beats all
Why did you have to single out "ENGLISH COMEDIAN"? I enjoy many comedians from all around the world...you have a SMALL mind, my friend...broaden your mind!! I'm a BRIT...and appreciate HUMOUR...from around this WORLD!! GOD BLESS YOU...in HUMOUR!!
Are you an Aristocrat? Courtier? Poet? Writer? Spy? Explorer? Favourite of the reigning monarch? No - I thought not. And will anyone remember you in 50 years time? No - I thought not. Who's the GET now then?
Try listening to his story while, as Clark Kent, and in a pay phone while talking to a dry cleaner and trying to find out if Superman's costume is ready for pick up. Him speaking in a one-sided conversation with the dry cleaner is absolutely hilarious.
The most hilarious comment here is the complaint about the audio quality, My 40+ year old remastered stereo vinyl is about a quarter of the weight of My Parents original, recorded in glorious mono, original Fred Flintstone vinyl, all of which are still priceless. TBH I was surprised that the complaint didn't include a lack of HD video! Get a life!🙂😊😁😄😆😅😂😝!
He wrote a book that I read. It was “I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This. The two funniest thing’s he said that he had to get dressed in the dark so he wouldn’t wake up his wife. He said, Did you ever try to tell the difference between a pair of black socks or navy blue socks in the dark? The other thing was when the first time she got pregnant they decided not to tell anyone about it at first and she agreed. He said that the first thing she did was get on the phone and screamed, Guess what!!! I’m pregnant. So by the time she got off from the conversation there might have been a telephone operator in Timbuktu that didn’t know their little “secret”.
I vaguely remember a Bob Newhart sketch that was a one-sided phone call between a publisher & William Shakespeare and details the plots for the plays A Midsummer Night Dream and Othello. Can't find it anywhere. Am I imagining it ????
There is a guy who posted a message on here who seems very angry with people who are offended by the prolific use of foul language and that this person seems to equate that while we disaprove of language used in this form, that we are in approval of people using illicit drugs. I used to wprk in Corrections. I have seen the after-effects of people who have chosen to take these substances and what happens to them afterwards. With them committing such terrible acts and deeds, which they had previously stated to themselves that they would never do. If I was to hazard a guess, I would say that this guy with his mouth in the gutter/toilet not only speaks like this in his everyday vernacular, but also engages in the use of illicit substances, then, calls everybody on here hypocrites. I'm not saying that I have never sworn before. I have. Particularly, if I kick my toe in the middle of the night. But, my spoken vocabulary is not every word that comes out of my mouth like his style of conversation.
I know this is comedy but it is based on fact(not the Phone call from Nutty wally but what you do with Tobacco) WTF goes on in the head of smokers, what would make anyone think smoking was a good idea? it more than just defies logic.....it is batshit crazy stuff!
TheeCaptainAmerica There is no racist part at all! It’s a parody on our use of foreign goods. Today they are used and people are addicted to them. Tobacco, sugar and Coffee! Products were imported that had addiction properties. So the Market was sustainable. Just the same as A class drugs. However the Elite control Coffee, Sugar and tobacco markets and invaded countries and forced people into slavery.
I'm guessing you don't even have a clue who Sir Walter Raleigh was, do you? No? Thought not. You don't even seem to realise he was executed 395 years ago -- and yet you still refer to him in the present tense.
Hey, Egleton. This was meant as a joke. To imply that tobacco had not been introduced into modern day society. And that, for the purpose of the joke, that Raleigh was still alive today. It seems that everyone else here gets this except you. Newhart is a comedian. Please try and understand that he was just telling a joke. Sheeeesh!
I am 83 to hear this again takes me back a bit to when comedy was a joy not like today's sour crap, Bob Newhart was a favourite of mine he made me cry with laughter.
You bet ya Ronnie...His humour is still as good today...I bet you've already seen it but there's a film with Steve McQueen and Bob Newhart made in 1962 called 'Hell is for Heroes'...Great film and the film makers give Newhart a spot in it where he is a US soldier in a small group (with McQueen) and he has to use the radio to give the Germans the impression that there are a lot more US soldiers where they are...It's a brilliant film anyway but Newhart comes into his own in that scene...I uploaded a few different Newhart sound bites on my channel with this one so check them out...Thanks for the comment and...Have fun Ron!...
One the greats.
R.I.P. Bob, and thanks for all the many, many laughs.
R.I.P. Bob ! In my book he was one the great comedians of all time. I also hold The Bob Newhart Show & Newhart in high
esteem.✌️
Genius! After more decades than I care to think about this still makes me laugh.
I'm English and don't normally appreciate American humout but, when I first heard this particular story by Bob Newhart, my husband and I laughed so much we cried. We even bought an LP of his and listened to all that was on it. This was around 40 years ago and, even though I've heard some of these before, they still make me laugh. Thank you so much for sharing. :0)
One of my fondest memories is sitting with my mother and father at a Bob Newhart appearance in the mid-'80s. After he finished and walked off stage, people yelled for more. He came back out and performed this.
I watched this again today and it's just as funny as it was when he first did it in 1967. I hope you'll take a few minutes to watch it. Jerry
His timing is just perfect! There can't be many to match him anywhere.
Rest in glory, Bob.
He must’ve done this more than once. I’m used to it concluding with, “Don’t call me anymore.”
two or three versions at least
Absolute genius - I cry with laughter every time I hear this.
This piece is so perfect it's virtually poetry.
I used to listen to this with my dad as he had an LP of Bob Newhart. I was 12 years old and this sketch even at that young age made me laugh each time I heard it. Comedy was one of the few things my dad and I had in common. We also loved Woody Allen's Night Club Years and I still listen to them now.
I am crying from laughing. He was hilarious.
Recorded in 1967 and still funny in 2018. And without swearing or sex. Why can't they do that today?
Comedians today just aren't that smart to do that kind of good comedy
Because the public has gotten much dumber.
@@Cotronixco lol I think your right
Loved it the first time I heard it. Still think it's hilarious. Thanks
Wonderful. As a kid this introduced me to comedy and comedic storytelling--and convinced me to never smoke. I'm 69 now--with great lungs. Thanks Bob!
I've just turned 69 myself, and agree with everything you say. Unfortunately, I started smoking before I heard of BH. But I fully realized the dangers smoking by the time I was 19 and never smoked since.
My sister was 10 years older than I was had chain smoked since she was 13 years old. As Brother Dave Garner who was a popular comedian of that time said, I’d smoke chains if I could light them. When I would go to visit her some times we would stay up visiting nearly all night and she would finish one cigarette 🚬 after another. I only ever saw more than 3 or 4 pictures
of her that she didn’t have a
cigarette 🚬 in her hand. She died of lung cancer before she was 65 years old. I never smoked at all. I’m now 79 years old and still kicking 🦵🏻 but I sure do miss my big sister. Sometimes I just want to talk to her so badly that it hurts. We had such good times together. I lost my husband after only 10 years of marriage. He was 37 years old and died from a glioblastoma cancer. I got 2 daughters and a son out of the marriage and I live with my oldest daughter and her husband. 👵🏻👵🏻👵🏻
What a gem thanks for the laughs.
I remember as a child (growing up in Central Africa) the local TV station started broadcasting the Bob Newhart show. Although I was only 10 or 11 years old at the time, I thoroughly enjoyed his dry, unobtrusive humour. His timing was impeccable, and his management of comedic situation has seldom been met - never mind surpassed - by other popular comedians. No matter how many times you listen to this little masterpiece, you can't help but chuckle... the true test of comedic perfection.
Still makes me cry with laughter!
more than 40 years after I first heard this on a 12 inch record , it still makes me laugh
I'm listening to it now, again. I know I was much younger when I first heard it on the radio, could well be 40+ years ago.
I heard this once, maybe 48 years ago, and I still remember some of the stronger punchlines. Bob made comedy for thinking people. His delivery was incremental, to give people time to picture the situation he was describing, and to understand the absurdities.
Brilliant. Bob Newhart was huge here in Britain. This, Driving Instructor, Bus Driver Training, etc...
The Bus Driver is considered a training aid for London Bus Drivers (I know I am one:-) )
Cool. Nice to know.
Bomb disposal, nudist camp. Along with master blaster, and the bucket of bricks ( Hoffung ), some of the comedy classics.
It's just genius, maybe arguably not the funniest comedy even, but pure magic of another kind. Very few man ever as funny as Bob Newhart.
" you roll it up and , dont tell me Walt " ha ha brilliant
Hilarious! I first heard this playing in the ladies loo at The Salthouse; Ipswich Waterfront....and just HAD to stay in there til I had heard it all.......that was a long loo visit; but worth it..!!
Got to be said: Toilet Humour (Sorry)
A good skit. Especially the bit about Sir Walter Raleigh discovering tobacco, when it was already being used by the Native Americans.
A comedy genius He is hilarious Every performance is brilliant. Most enjoyable!!
No swearing, no bad language, just brilliantly funny. What a genius!
The best comedians don't have to resort to swearing and bad language. I find it very sad that most modern comedians use crude, offensive language when they don't need to.
Wit and common knowledge is what they used to entertain. They didn't need cheap dirty language and second rate sexual innuendo for everything. They were artists not political or social hate groups.
The best comedians don't have to resort to swearing and bad language. I find it very sad that most modern comedians use crude, offensive language when they don't need to" Exactly, most of the comedians today rely on foul language's or sexually explicit shock value rather than just being funny.
@@fredman1085 ...puritans still exist
@@321bytor I agree
This is a great bit, for the ages.
love this stuff remember this from childhood oooeeerrr lmao..listen 2 it enjoy..
Next week I’m 57 but my first encounter with this comedy genius I was 8 and even now in 2021 it’s right up there with the best of the best from the last three generation’s of comedians worldwide! :0)
You sent us 80 ton of leaves?! (Sips his tea)
absolute classic
Genius is an over used word but this man is and years ahead of his time.
Bob Newhart was sweet and homespun and a class act
Absolutely love this guy.
This guy was a genius
A Comic genius
2014 and I'm still crying with laughter
2017 me too
2017 and I have got tears running down my face with laughter. Brilliant
2018 here ...pure quality
2018 and I'M still crying with laughter.
2018 / 19
So funny! Classic.
Bob Newhart was simply brilliant
My absolute favorite was the phone conversation with Abner Doubleday about the game he invented called baseball. You need a space over 300 feet ?? Y'know the ideal game is y'get 2 or 3 couples come over Sat. Nite sit around the living room - you know
Well go ahead and explain (3 strikes you're out and 4 balls y'walk - Why 4 balls Mr Doubleday ? and etc.)
comedic genius !!
He had me the snuff, and kept me until the end. Many a truth is said in jest.
Let me get this straight Walt..you bought 80 tons of leaves ?
Nutty Walt again 😅 RIP Mr Newhart 🙏❤️🕯️
Never underestimate human stupidity. We are laughing now but smoking kills. And tobaconists laughed all the way to the bank. It almost killed Bob himself until the doctor told him to stop, which he did, with great thanks to the doctor and to Bob himself for winning this battle. He seems to be such a kind man. Love him. Thanks for the video!
Brilliant
People don’t get the simple allusion anymore. Today you have to hit the audience with the baseball bat, spit some heavy duty language and connect them to the laugh button to get any reaction.
We human are becoming one stupid mass controlled by cheap entertainment. So saaad.
Not really...it just isn't that funny. This is my first time watching the sketch and it is just barely funny. I almost smiled at the "we have a lot of leaves in England" joke but that was it. I'm sorry but I just find programs like mock the week and Peep show funnier. Although Blackadder beats all
Not really...it just isn't that funny. This is my first time watching the sketch and it is just barely funny. I almost smiled at the "we have a lot of leaves in England" joke but that was it. I'm sorry but I just find programs like mock the week and Peep show funnier. Although Blackadder beats all
Byron Jones Well, each to their own
cezary zbikowski
Truth, Bob was funny as hell growing up!!!! It’s pathetic what Social media has made society with language and no brain use!!
@@sexualchocolate1498
This is the audio recording of a stand up act. How can you compare this to a TV comedy series?
Absolute genius! No English comedian comes this close!! (in my opinion)
Why did you have to single out "ENGLISH COMEDIAN"? I enjoy many comedians from all around the world...you have a SMALL mind, my friend...broaden your mind!! I'm a BRIT...and appreciate HUMOUR...from around this WORLD!!
GOD BLESS YOU...in HUMOUR!!
How can 38 people not like this?
One of his funniest ever phone routines.
This is what what comedy is about , making people laugh without profanities, something the now generation have no idea about.
Funny man just funny
Love this, so funny. :)
Are you an Aristocrat? Courtier? Poet? Writer? Spy? Explorer? Favourite of the reigning monarch? No - I thought not. And will anyone remember you in 50 years time? No - I thought not. Who's the GET now then?
This is from the Warner Brothers album, Bob Newhart: The Button-Down Mind on Television
I had a 12 inch of his which I treasured as a child
Me, too. Used to listen to him before I went to sleep.
Is it bad that I laughed at that comment for seven whole minutes?
Hmmmm....I bet he hadn't intended that!
Best comment ever.
Comic timing brilliant classic
the button down mind is ageless.....
Absolute genius.
remember this from 50 yrs ago
Comedy genius , Still has great timing on the Big Bang Theory
Try listening to his story while, as Clark Kent, and in a pay phone while talking to a dry cleaner and trying to find out if Superman's costume is ready for pick up. Him speaking in a one-sided conversation with the dry cleaner is absolutely hilarious.
He is awesome
The West Indies Company in England. 😊
Actually, he is as clever as Dave Allen and this coming from a life long fan of DA
Did DA ever get going in the US? I've never heard any Allen radio comedy (just the TV shows when I was growing up).
Absolute genius. As hilarious now as it was then.
The most hilarious comment here is the complaint about the audio quality, My 40+ year old remastered stereo vinyl is about a quarter of the weight of My Parents original, recorded in glorious mono, original Fred Flintstone vinyl, all of which are still priceless. TBH I was surprised that the complaint didn't include a lack of HD video! Get a life!🙂😊😁😄😆😅😂😝!
I think this was from Button Down Mind Strikes Back. Also Holdout Huns and Grace L Ferguson Airlines and Storm Door Company.
Makes you wonder how tobacco started getting used in the first place.
that is the beauty of it.
Often comedy goes off over time, but this is as funny as the first time I heard it.
genius
"Suppositories? What's up with that?"
you bought 80 tons of leaves ?
The best anti-smoking propaganda EVER!!
He wrote a book that I read. It was “I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This. The two funniest thing’s he said that he had to get dressed in the dark so he wouldn’t wake up his wife. He said, Did you ever try to tell the difference between a pair of black socks or navy blue socks in the dark? The other thing was when the first time she got pregnant they decided not to tell anyone about it at first and she agreed. He said that the first thing she did was get on the phone and screamed, Guess what!!! I’m pregnant. So by the time she got off from the conversation there might have been a telephone operator in Timbuktu that didn’t know their little “secret”.
I was entertained by this video! What inspires you to do this
To entertain you?
Thanks for snuffing!? Long Bottom Leaf Old Toby And Southern Star. Pipe them aboard.😮😊
woop
I vaguely remember a Bob Newhart sketch that was a one-sided phone call between a publisher & William Shakespeare and details the plots for the plays A Midsummer Night Dream and Othello. Can't find it anywhere. Am I imagining it ????
I enjoyed this video. However, the laughter track was ot was too loud. 🙉🙉🙉😲😲😲🤫🤫🤫
Not an obscene word in the lot.
*Walter Raleigh died before Thanksgiving was invented.
Won it in 2002
He brought potatoes to the Europeans too.
Ms Egleton - have you heard of The Beatles? The White Album?
Clearly not.
There is a guy who posted a message on here who seems very angry with people who are offended by the prolific use of foul language and that this person seems to equate that while we disaprove of language used in this form, that we are in approval of people using illicit drugs.
I used to wprk in Corrections. I have seen the after-effects of people who have chosen to take these substances and what happens to them afterwards. With them committing such terrible acts and deeds, which they had previously stated to themselves that they would never do.
If I was to hazard a guess, I would say that this guy with his mouth in the gutter/toilet not only speaks like this in his everyday vernacular, but also engages in the use of illicit substances, then, calls everybody on here hypocrites.
I'm not saying that I have never sworn before. I have. Particularly, if I kick my toe in the middle of the night. But, my spoken vocabulary is not every word that comes out of my mouth like his style of conversation.
I know this is comedy but it is based on fact(not the Phone call from Nutty wally but what you do with Tobacco) WTF goes on in the head of smokers, what would make anyone think smoking was a good idea? it more than just defies logic.....it is batshit crazy stuff!
I only listened to this once, but where's the racist part?
TheeCaptainAmerica There is no racist part at all! It’s a parody on our use of foreign goods. Today they are used and people are addicted to them. Tobacco, sugar and Coffee! Products were imported that had addiction properties. So the Market was sustainable. Just the same as A class drugs. However the Elite control Coffee, Sugar and tobacco markets and invaded countries and forced people into slavery.
@@simonkehoe2676
I think you need to relax.
@@simonkehoe2676 Your a laugh !
Do you want a rasist part...
Dads swimming trunks
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sir Walter Raleigh is.
What?
I'm guessing you don't even have a clue who Sir Walter Raleigh was, do you? No? Thought not. You don't even seem to realise he was executed 395 years ago -- and yet you still refer to him in the present tense.
Evidently the sense of humour by-pass surgery worked a treat.......
Hey, Egleton. This was meant as a joke. To imply that tobacco had not been introduced into modern day society. And that, for the purpose of the joke, that Raleigh was still alive today. It seems that everyone else here gets this except you. Newhart is a comedian. Please try and understand that he was just telling a joke. Sheeeesh!
Don ricoulds washis best friend .. opposites attract
?
if only he had bought 8tons of cannabis, we would be in a dreamland if he had. p.s dont inhale
I wonder how he would do with introducing marijuana.
Almost as Good as Dave Allen.
Terrible audio quality!
Bobby New-ee, normally so unfunny, gets a B for this one.