Genius! After more decades than I care to think about this still makes me laugh.

No swearing, no bad language, just brilliantly funny. What a genius!

Recorded in 1967 and still funny in 2018. And without swearing or sex. Why can't they do that today?

His timing is just perfect! There can't be many to match him anywhere.

One of my fondest memories is sitting with my mother and father at a Bob Newhart appearance in the mid-'80s. After he finished and walked off stage, people yelled for more. He came back out and performed this.

Absolute genius - I cry with laughter every time I hear this.

I watched this again today and it's just as funny as it was when he first did it in 1967. I hope you'll take a few minutes to watch it. Jerry

This piece is so perfect it's virtually poetry.

more than 40 years after I first heard this on a 12 inch record , it still makes me laugh

It's just genius, maybe arguably not the funniest comedy even, but pure magic of another kind. Very few man ever as funny as Bob Newhart.

" you roll it up and , dont tell me Walt " ha ha brilliant

I'm English and don't normally appreciate American humout but, when I first heard this particular story by Bob Newhart, my husband and I laughed so much we cried. We even bought an LP of his and listened to all that was on it. This was around 40 years ago and, even though I've heard some of these before, they still make me laugh. Thank you so much for sharing. :0)

Loved it the first time I heard it. Still think it's hilarious. Thanks

I heard this once, maybe 48 years ago, and I still remember some of the stronger punchlines. Bob made comedy for thinking people. His delivery was incremental, to give people time to picture the situation he was describing, and to understand the absurdities.

This is a great bit, for the ages.

This guy was a genius

Brilliant. Bob Newhart was huge here in Britain. This, Driving Instructor, Bus Driver Training, etc...

Wonderful. As a kid this introduced me to comedy and comedic storytelling--and convinced me to never smoke. I'm 69 now--with great lungs. Thanks Bob!

A comedy genius He is hilarious Every performance is brilliant. Most enjoyable!!

I used to listen to this with my dad as he had an LP of Bob Newhart. I was 12 years old and this sketch even at that young age made me laugh each time I heard it. Comedy was one of the few things my dad and I had in common. We also loved Woody Allen's Night Club Years and I still listen to them now.

absolute classic

Still makes me cry with laughter!

A Comic genius

I remember as a child (growing up in Central Africa) the local TV station started broadcasting the Bob Newhart show. Although I was only 10 or 11 years old at the time, I thoroughly enjoyed his dry, unobtrusive humour. His timing was impeccable, and his management of comedic situation has seldom been met - never mind surpassed - by other popular comedians. No matter how many times you listen to this little masterpiece, you can't help but chuckle... the true test of comedic perfection.

love this stuff remember this from childhood oooeeerrr lmao..listen 2 it enjoy..

I am 83 to hear this again takes me back a bit to when comedy was a joy not like today's sour crap, Bob Newhart was a favourite of mine he made me cry with laughter.

Absolutely love this guy.

Hilarious! I first heard this playing in the ladies loo at The Salthouse; Ipswich Waterfront....and just HAD to stay in there til I had heard it all.......that was a long loo visit; but worth it..!!

Next week I’m 57 but my first encounter with this comedy genius I was 8 and even now in 2021 it’s right up there with the best of the best from the last three generation’s of comedians worldwide! :0)

Let me get this straight Walt..you bought 80 tons of leaves ?

One of his funniest ever phone routines.

No laugh track needed. My favorite comedian of all time. Loved the Newhart show as the psychiatrist. Great memories watching his show with my dad.

So funny! Classic.

2014 and I'm still crying with laughter

This is what what comedy is about , making people laugh without profanities, something the now generation have no idea about.

How can 38 people not like this?

A good skit. Especially the bit about Sir Walter Raleigh discovering tobacco, when it was already being used by the Native Americans.

I saw Bob at age 88 do standup at the chumash casino. He had original material that had me crying. It was about a one-eyed bullfighter.

Love this, so funny. :)

Genius is an over used word but this man is and years ahead of his time.

Bob Newhart was simply brilliant

People don’t get the simple allusion anymore. Today you have to hit the audience with the baseball bat, spit some heavy duty language and connect them to the laugh button to get any reaction. We human are becoming one stupid mass controlled by cheap entertainment. So saaad.

Comic timing brilliant classic

Bob Newhart was sweet and homespun and a class act

Newhart, the best of the best....

Brilliant

Never underestimate human stupidity. We are laughing now but smoking kills. And tobaconists laughed all the way to the bank. It almost killed Bob himself until the doctor told him to stop, which he did, with great thanks to the doctor and to Bob himself for winning this battle. He seems to be such a kind man. Love him. Thanks for the video!

He had me the snuff, and kept me until the end. Many a truth is said in jest.

the button down mind is ageless.....

My absolute favorite was the phone conversation with Abner Doubleday about the game he invented called baseball. You need a space over 300 feet ?? Y'know the ideal game is y'get 2 or 3 couples come over Sat. Nite sit around the living room - you know Well go ahead and explain (3 strikes you're out and 4 balls y'walk - Why 4 balls Mr Doubleday ? and etc.) comedic genius !!

Absolute genius! No English comedian comes this close!! (in my opinion)

Funny man just funny

Comedy genius , Still has great timing on the Big Bang Theory

Actually, he is as clever as Dave Allen and this coming from a life long fan of DA

This is from the Warner Brothers album, Bob Newhart: The Button-Down Mind on Television

He is awesome

Absolute genius.

He wrote a book that I read. It was “I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This. The two funniest thing’s he said that he had to get dressed in the dark so he wouldn’t wake up his wife. He said, Did you ever try to tell the difference between a pair of black socks or navy blue socks in the dark? The other thing was when the first time she got pregnant they decided not to tell anyone about it at first and she agreed. He said that the first thing she did was get on the phone and screamed, Guess what!!! I’m pregnant. So by the time she got off from the conversation there might have been a telephone operator in Timbuktu that didn’t know their little “secret”.

Are you an Aristocrat? Courtier? Poet? Writer? Spy? Explorer? Favourite of the reigning monarch? No - I thought not. And will anyone remember you in 50 years time? No - I thought not. Who's the GET now then?

I had a 12 inch of his which I treasured as a child

Makes you wonder how tobacco started getting used in the first place.

Try listening to his story while, as Clark Kent, and in a pay phone while talking to a dry cleaner and trying to find out if Superman's costume is ready for pick up. Him speaking in a one-sided conversation with the dry cleaner is absolutely hilarious.

remember this from 50 yrs ago

Absolute genius. As hilarious now as it was then.

I think this was from Button Down Mind Strikes Back. Also Holdout Huns and Grace L Ferguson Airlines and Storm Door Company.

genius

Often comedy goes off over time, but this is as funny as the first time I heard it.

I vaguely remember a Bob Newhart sketch that was a one-sided phone call between a publisher & William Shakespeare and details the plots for the plays A Midsummer Night Dream and Othello. Can't find it anywhere. Am I imagining it ????

The most hilarious comment here is the complaint about the audio quality, My 40+ year old remastered stereo vinyl is about a quarter of the weight of My Parents original, recorded in glorious mono, original Fred Flintstone vinyl, all of which are still priceless. TBH I was surprised that the complaint didn't include a lack of HD video! Get a life!🙂😊😁😄😆😅😂😝!

I was entertained by this video! What inspires you to do this

"Suppositories? What's up with that?"

woop

The West Indies Company in England. 😊

*Walter Raleigh died before Thanksgiving was invented.

you bought 80 tons of leaves ?

Ms Egleton - have you heard of The Beatles? The White Album?

Won it in 2002

Dads swimming trunks

He brought potatoes to the Europeans too.

The best anti-smoking propaganda EVER!!

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Thanks for snuffing!? Long Bottom Leaf Old Toby And Southern Star. Pipe them aboard.😮😊

I know this is comedy but it is based on fact(not the Phone call from Nutty wally but what you do with Tobacco) WTF goes on in the head of smokers, what would make anyone think smoking was a good idea? it more than just defies logic.....it is batshit crazy stuff!

I enjoyed this video. However, the laughter track was ot was too loud. 🙉🙉🙉😲😲😲🤫🤫🤫

Don ricoulds washis best friend .. opposites attract

Sir Walter Raleigh is.

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There is a guy who posted a message on here who seems very angry with people who are offended by the prolific use of foul language and that this person seems to equate that while we disaprove of language used in this form, that we are in approval of people using illicit drugs. I used to wprk in Corrections. I have seen the after-effects of people who have chosen to take these substances and what happens to them afterwards. With them committing such terrible acts and deeds, which they had previously stated to themselves that they would never do. If I was to hazard a guess, I would say that this guy with his mouth in the gutter/toilet not only speaks like this in his everyday vernacular, but also engages in the use of illicit substances, then, calls everybody on here hypocrites. I'm not saying that I have never sworn before. I have. Particularly, if I kick my toe in the middle of the night. But, my spoken vocabulary is not every word that comes out of my mouth like his style of conversation.

I only listened to this once, but where's the racist part?

if only he had bought 8tons of cannabis, we would be in a dreamland if he had. p.s dont inhale

I wonder how he would do with introducing marijuana.

Almost as Good as Dave Allen.

I'm guessing you don't even have a clue who Sir Walter Raleigh was, do you? No? Thought not. You don't even seem to realise he was executed 395 years ago -- and yet you still refer to him in the present tense.

Terrible audio quality!

racism is never funny, also buy a dictionary. also again i think he was a bit lame, but if you like him lol

Bobby New-ee, normally so unfunny, gets a B for this one.