Published 07/24/2024 6:48:33 p.m.

Remembering Catholic comedian Bob Newhart

Summary by National Catholic Reporter

Newhart was pursuing a less-than-stellar business career when he suddenly shot to showbiz stardom in 1960 with his first album, "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart." The LP went on to earn a Grammy Award as Album of the Year — a first for a comedy recording.

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Remembering Catholic comedian Bob Newhart

07/25/2024 5:21:33 p.m.

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Remembering Catholic comedian Bob Newhart

Comedian Bob Newhart cracks up Carmen Nanko and Father Robert Friday with a joke about the rain falling on the graduation ceremony May 21,1997 at The Catholic University of America. OSV News photo/Catholic University of America, CNS archive About the same time Chicago-area native George Robert Newhart was inching his way from an accounting job toward a career in comedy, his older sister Joan was professing her final vows as a Sister of Charity o…

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