Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 295 – Griffin Newman on Bob Newhart – The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back

Griffin Newman is Arthur on The Tick (which returns to Amazon Prime April 5!) and co-hosts Blank Check, my favorite movie podcast.  He picked Bob Newhart and we get into specifics of Bob’s influence on Griffin’s stand-up and his acting.  This was a blast.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Wo

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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 163 – Jeff Abraham on Bob Newhart Rarities

In a first for our podcast, we’re about to premiere a Bob Newhart track that is 50 years old and you probably only heard if you were there for the recording.  From a one-of-a-kind acetate in the Abraham Comedy Archive, the “Paul Revere” sketch by Bob Newhart does not appear on any Newhart albums, a

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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 152 – Brian Kiley on Bob Newhart – The Button-Down Mind

Brian Kiley is a stand-up, writer for Conan, and author of the book The Astounding Misadventures of Rory Collins.  Somehow, we haven’t covered this album since our first three episodes, so it was definitely time for a revisit.  We sat down and talked about the changing world of stand-up, as we

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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 148 – Rob Newhart

 

 

It’s not often you get to talk to someone about playing their own father in a movie.  In 1992, that’s exactly what Rob did, for a cameo in “Heart and Souls.”  We discuss how that came about this week, as big fans of his dad, but we also discuss his own introduction to comedy by the likes of Richard Pryor and George Carlin, the former passed down from his father.  The album we’re holding isn’t discussed in this episode, but we are holding it for a reason – it has the first recorded mention of Rob’s name, in track one of side 2, in which Bob talks about becoming a father.

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