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Funny is funny is funny.

Bob Newhart

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Bob Newhart
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 5
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Oak Park
Illinois
George Robert Newhart
George Robert Bob Newhart
Comedy
Funny

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You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.
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All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'
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The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.
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Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.
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I feel more comfortable in comedy.
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Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.
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I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.
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I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.
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Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.
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I'm very open to the up-and-comers.
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It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
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Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.
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Don't ever have two dogs. That way you won't know which one to blame.
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I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.
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All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
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Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
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You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
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But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh
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The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.
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