The world lost a comedy icon yesterday. Bob Newhart.

A LOT of people know him as Buddy’s adoptive elf dad in “Elf“

or the long suffering Professor Proton on The Big Bang Theory.

One of my faves was as the mysterious Judson on The Librarians

(the first one – Return to King Solomons Mine was the best, IMHO)

I remember watching The Bob Newhart Show reruns as a little girl, and thinking how QUIET he was for so many people to be laughing at what he said. I mean, most comic actors on tv were LOUD, right? They’d make a splash when they come on screen.  They’d deliver lines with EMPHASIS. Most still do.  But not this little balding man. He’d kind of glide in there and ZIP! hit ’em with a quiet zinger and just stare with those sad puppy eyes and the crowd would roar.

Same with Newhart in the 80’s. ERRYBODY knew “I’m Earl. This is my brother Earl. And this is my other brother Earl” and would repeat it to their friends. But Bob carried the show with his quiet ways, stabbing side-eye, and blade sharp wit.

There’s so much more that he did, and you can see it all in this nice article below.

Rest easy, sir.  He was 94.