Bob Newhart

I worked on All in the Family and Sonny and Cher and Carol Burnett and all these great shows.

And on the Mary Tyler Moore show and Bob Newhart, there was a guy by the name of Lorenzo Music, who also played Carlton the doorman on Rhoda.

And he did the best warm-ups in the history of the world.

And one day, which is what you have to do in this business, and that is lie, I knocked on the door and went into his office and I said, best warm-up I've ever seen.

And in the coaching course, they show you this video clip.

from the American comedian Bob Newhart.

He is playing a therapist in this clip and is using gospel coach training to show you how not to coach, okay? So this is not how you coach, but it is a funny clip.

And so he's sitting there at his desk in this big therapist room and the client comes in and she shares her problem with Newhart.

My dad had a great, you know, he wanted to be an artist, but he also had a great wealth of film and standup comedy.

I listened to records prior and Carl and Bob Newhart, like my dad turned me on to all that.

And I just found that's my thing.

But bill Adams was my English teacher.

What I found on the other side is the real thing and that's the gift I get to hand you today.

Can I just name how absurd the old message was? For years, the whole thing basically boiled down to that old Bob Newhart skit.

You remember the psychiatrist whose entire therapy has two words? You come in with your real genuine pain and the advice is just stop it.

Just stop eating the thing.

And there were three albums of Caucasian people.

And it was Jonathan Winters, Comedy and Tragedy, The Smothers Brothers, where he's banging the guitar over the head, and The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart.

And so I...

I didn't have a record player, so I went out and got them with, you might remember this or your audience, S&H Green Stamps, where they used to put the stamps in the bags at the shopping center, and you'd tape them, you'd paste them in books, and then you'd... could get appliances.

And there's no one who does, I'll call it dialogue humor.

Right.

Where you, if you guys aren't familiar with this, Bob Newhart used to do comedy where he would carry a conversation with somebody who you couldn't see.

He didn't do the voice of the person.

Let me ask you this.

We were watching, because we're us, we were watching many episodes of the Bob Newhart Show over the last few days.

Yes.

And in one of them, Jerry, if you're not familiar with the Bob Newhart Show, you should be.

Jerry is the dentist who is in their kind of doctor's enclave of offices.

And he's a bit of a boob.

Yes.

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