He probably wasn’t the first comedian to do the one side of a phone conversation bit, but nobody ever did it better than Bob Newhart. I loved how he’d slip a quick one into his sitcoms. Always funny, and the deadpan delivery was consistently perfect.

Exquisite timing. He’s even a legend over here in the UK.

I love how he's also dressed like an Elizabethan while mentioning modern technology in the skit. "Wanna get on the intercom? I don't want the boys to miss this!" And the way he's describing the uses of tobacco and coffee, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the Europeans initially thought it was ridiculously funny, too. God bless you, Bob Newhart. We love you so much!

The very best dead pan comedian of all time. I can watch Newhart the series over and over

This should be mandatory viewing for anyone thinking of taking up smoking.

Still funny after all these years. What a genius.

My favorite. Stop it skit.

When somebody pointed out his stutter, his reply was, "That stutter got me a place in Bel Air."

Never fails to make me laugh, no matter how times I hear it!

Great. Also loved the one called ‘The Driving Instructor’.

After listening tp this quite a few times, what strikes me as so funny is how he calls Walter Raleigh 'Walt'...!

Someone told me about this and she and I watched it together… Bob Newhart is such a funny man!

It's worth keeping in mind this was aired during the era when tobacco companies were major sponsors of television shows and were pictured in almost every movie, much like pharmaceutical companies today.

Hugh Dennis brought me here. This routine is going to improve further as humanity evolves!

a brilliantly funny comedian. Clean fun with a wonderful take on the absurd

This is my favorite Newhart skit!

the best comedy sketch ever.

I totally forgot about this,Is still funny as hell 30 years after I first heard it.

Oh that was just soooo funny. lol-ing big time!! I had to play it again to catch all the bits I missed from laughing so loud!

If you relax, take time to watch this, better to close your eyes and just listen, hilarious LOL

A comic genius…… never heard of this guy before, looking forward to seeing more sketches on KZfaq 👌🏻

This is great, Thank you for uploading!

A genius. Great in Big Bang Theory too. He and Tom Lehrer were so funny and sardonic.

Brilliant! So good to laugh

If it's Bob Newhart, I had to watch it.

I remember listening to this over 50 years ago when in college. It’s just as funny now as it was then. The reason I got to listen to it recently was because it was referenced in a comment on the equally funny sketch on KZfaq in which Rowan Atkinson ( Mr Bean) is the editor and Hugh Laurie ( Dr House) is Shakespeare. They are discussing ways of shortening Shakespeare’s Hamlet play and if you like Bob Newhart then you’ll like the Shakespeare sketch.

It's nutty Wally again. . .

Never saw this. Very funny! Apparently noone questions the exstence of 16th-century telephones, not-to-mention either wireless -transmission or a transatlantic-cable. That's part of the fun, though. Very clever & imaginative solo-skit, showing how humor can be extracted from even the simplest of premises!

the lines are perfect the delivery even better!

Absolute classic.

LOL love that voice and face, LOL!!!!

Absolutely Great. I really miss his humor.

i remember this from when i was a kid. my mom used to listen to a bay area comedy radio show on saturdays. there was one about king kong, someone going up the empire state building's elevator and saying "i'm at his navel now." i remember my mom laughing so hard. good memories.

Wonderful! truly hilarious! Peg

This had to be the late 50's early 60's. At least as far as I recall seeing it then

A comment in The History Guy's program about Coffee got me here!

why don't the anti smoking lobby use this to discourage smoking? Especially the line "...you put it between the lips and you set fire to it..?

I remember this from decades ago, and it's still funny. Coffee didn't come from the New World, but who cares? It works.

Comic genius.

Fantastic

The Telephone . Use of. to communicate. But let us get pass that. Wonderfully funny. My memory was always via the radio.

What's that Walt? You've forgot to cut the grass? And now you can't find your sundial? Well Walt, what can I say?

The real challenge for him must have been how to end these skits.

Brilliant

Was there an other or an extended version where Sir Walter rings up about a potato.

Only Bob :)

So funny!

He did make one mistake, he is supposed to be English and when Wally was telling him he bought 80 tons of leaves he said, "We have plenty of leaves here in England, then his next attempted sentence was "Come Fall" the term "Fall" is American, the seasons are called Spring, Summer, AUTUMN and Winter, The English refer to Fall as "Autumn" How do people smoke? while this is hilarious, it is also 100% factual about the stupidity of smoking!!

Small historical flag on the sketch -- Coffee started in the Middle East and spread from there to Europe and the Americas through smuggling fertile seeds out of Yemen.

This sketch makes me think of an intergalactic traveller who 'phones' his home planet and tries to explain the peculiarities (insanities) of the practices and 'beliefs' of people and systems on Earth. They would be much more incredulous, as I find myself than the characters in this sketch. The sketch is funnier than the 'reality' on Earth... sadly. But, enjoy!

There's the "Easter Egg" I do believe in... Kramer... you'll be out before we get the check!!!

The Europeans had tobacco, Bob.

Tremendous This guy is Tremendous I Said.

This is like 40 years ago. Lol

What is the difference twixt Bob and so many 'comedians' in the States and the U.K. today? Just relied on his comical talent to make people laugh, unlike today's mob who cannot do their act without swearing and smut.

Long- long before The Big Bang Theory.

Must see t.v. ( if ya wanna smile)

Just a factual quibble: Coffee is not from the new world. It is from Africa.

Funny

If you cannot laugh at this, then your sense of humour was (surgically) removed at birth :D

Nothing dumber than shredding leaves, rolling in paper, putting between your lips and setting fire to it. DUH!!!

Oh for the days that a "comedian" could lay people in the ailes, clutching their sides in stitches of laughter with out a single use of the sexual verb or other gratuitous profanity. I'm thinking of course here of "Captain Potty Mouth", Billy Connolly. Of course there are plenty of others but you get the drift.