Would you let your best friend call your wife a prostitute? Bob Newhart did. That's because his best friend was Don Rickles. This was back in the 1960's, when both Rickles and Newhart were performing ...

He basically invented the stand-up special in 1960 and continued to be a source of comic brilliance until his final years. By Jason Zinoman Bob Newhart, who died on Thursday at the age of 94, has been ...

Bob Newhart has died at age 94. The legendary comedian, whose TV series “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart” were hits in the 1970s and ’80s, died Thursday. His longtime publicist Jerry Digney ...