Pick a decade, pick a Bob Newhart. He performed still-funny standup routines and released No. 1 comedy albums in the ’60s. He starred in two successful sitcoms in the ’70s and ’80s —
The Bob Newhart Show, which is still rightly considered one of the best of the form, and
Newhart, a show whose finale tops any other sitcom finale to date. Even people born in the 1990s and beyond are familiar with Newhart, thanks to 2003’s
Elf, a solid family film that’s on its way to becoming a Christmas cable classic. Newhart’s night at the Schermerhorn will include performances of some of his one-sided conversational classics, like “The Driving Instructor,” “Sir Walter Raleigh” and “The Submarine Commander.”
— Ashley Spurgeon