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Price:
$80 + tax & fee
Venue:
South Shore Room
Reservations:
800-786-8208 OR
800-HARRAHS (427-7247)
Online Reservations:
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Legendary comedian, monologist, storyteller, television star and master of the one-sided phone conversation, Bob Newhart performs in the intimate environs of the South Shore Room on Saturday, June 6, 2009. For over four decades Bob Newhart has been a standout among the greatest of America's favorite comedians. His career began after serving in the US Army when he went to work as an accountant and advertising copywriter. To enliven the drudgery of their daily routine, Newhart and colleague and pal Ed Gallagher invented comic phone conversations to entertain themselves and other co-workers. They taped some of their conversations and created a local nightclub act. "I really think it was the college kids who made us," Newhart explained in a TV Guide interview. "At the time, nightclubs were popular and that's where comedians worked. But the nightclubs were expensive, and a lot of the comedy was, 'Take my wife, please,' and mother-in-law jokes. College kids didn't have any money, and they didn't have mothers-in-law. The material was irrelevant to them...So (they) would get pizza and beer and sit around the frat house and play comedy records. We were their nightclub." Newhart's unique delivery and unemotional, "everyman" persona led to extraordinary success on television as well; both as a frequent variety show guest star and as the star of his own long-running sitcoms. His conservative, understated demeanor served him well for six hit seasons as psychologist Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show. That was followed by the equally popular Newhart, in which he portrayed the "always rational" do-it-yourself book author, Dick Loudon, who had escaped the city to become an innkeeper in an eccentric-filled Vermont town. Newhart's successful transition from stand-up comic to sitcom star helped pave the way for such stand-up-to-sitcom superstars as Roseanne, Tim Allen and Jerry Seinfeld. Returning now to his roots, Bob brings audiences to tears with his hilarious blend of new material and classic telephone routines. |
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