Well, dang

Bob Newhart is dead at 94. I was introduced to his comedy via the record “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart”, probably a couple of years after its 1960 release, but not much later: we were listening to Vaughn Meader’s “First Family” record at the same time, and the subject of JFK and his family stopped being funny on November 22, 1963. So, 1962-63, and my appreciation of the man continued on over the decades.

My all time favorite of his skits remains “Stop It!”. I don’t when it was first recorded, but it was a long time ago, I still laugh every time I see it.