tried to incorporate this in new student training; REVIEWED AND DENIED

🙂

Actually, that accelerator/brake thing is really difficult to get right, especially when you're aiming for all the potholes in the road.

@@binkwillans5138 lol

Or iciest spot on the road...

....and understated.

kugmoco Couldn’t agree more 👍

Maybe because he was as funny as a tooth ache.

@Diane Newman I was commenting on someone who said he was surprised about never hearing Newhart mentioned among the greatest comedians of all time. Do you know why he isn't mention among them? HE WASN'T FUNNY.

Someone called him "just an actor"...they need their asses kicked

​@@GarrishChristopherRobin777 Thank you for that lesson in irony. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJqmmZt_m63UlIE.html

@@GarrishChristopherRobin777 Jabber Jaw is a messenger not a grammaticalarian. No that’s not word but have some fun CRG

o did 29 yrs nycta

Did you ever work with Larry?

​@@paulrankin8578didn't everyone work with a Larry at one time or another?

You write just like you speak, which is not a good thing. Are you still alive & has your English improved ?

Michael Sheldon Reed , do you know who is credited as the writer of this one? As you can see on my posting it was known here in 1968.

It's over 57 years old now & we can all relate to it with modern day bus drivers

And it’s funny to all age groups, with no profanity

I agree - but you should check out Shelley Berman who came before him I believe - things like kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lctgp72Dms_XgZ8.html

Was? He's still alive, mate

@@nocofaig Exactly who I thought of when reading Ankle Donna's comment! Shelley was also a master of the mock phone conversation. There was also a comedienne, whose name I can't recall, who was always on the 'pretend phone' with her friend, 'cille (Lucille, I presume). Also one of the greats. Yes, all three were legendary, and each had his/her own style and "schtick" - all 3 were thus originals. Fred

I think his telephone conversation routines were a huge influence on phone scenes in sitcoms - I've just finished going through my box set of Cheers, and there's a few times where Sam is on the phone talking to someone and every time I thought "Bob Newhart". This is probably my favourite of his routines, although "King Kong" and "Introducing Tobacco" are well up there.

I love his Sir Walter Raleigh phone call. 🤣

TfL approved courses lol

Universal appeal!

As a NYer, I'd say it also applies to the NYC bus operators.

Let me add a traveller’s defence to the Chicago bus drivers. A couple of weeks ago I dropped a Harley off at Eagle Riders near O’Hare airport. I had to get back to the city and being a Brit I really didn’t want to empty my wallet into a taxi. I was told a bus stopped right out side and would take me to Rosemount then the Blue Line into town. The bus was right on time with my Apple Maps app (it has worked so well in LA two and a half weeks earlier). The bus driver was so polite and as I proffered a twenty dollar bill (damn tourists, sorry) he said not to worry this one’s on me - I like your accent. I got none of the Newhart passenger spinning, just a desolate industrial landscape then into Rosemount where the ticket guy helped me book tickets for the next day and skipped my fare into town, because he “liked my accent”. 2,700 miles across America and it felt to friendly and welcoming and safe - even on the Freeway dodging the tyre carcasses at 75mph. Truly a beautiful country and wonderful people. Get me back to those high desert roads of total nothingness and maybe a few more days to explore Chicago properly.

Hi Ariane, The man is a comedy God, so much better than all those so called comedians who think it's cool to say F*** every second word.

arianefr78 yes

I'll second this comment! I too was 17 when I first hear Newhart (Button Down Mind LP if memory serves). I memorized "The Driving Instructor", and presented it as a stand-up routine at our HS school's Prom. Sorry, Bob, for infringing your IP rights, but the routine went over gang-busters! Every year after that, some student got up and did stand-up!

The soap opera _Dallas_ did something similar ("it was all a dream!") four years earlier. Everyone knew that, though, in 1990, and is what made it so funny.

One of the best sitcom finales. And the light flick off - then on - as Suzanne Pleschette gets jealous of dream-wife. ...or did I dream-remember that?

"Hi I'm Larry and this is my brother Darryl and my other brother Darryl" Loved the show..

Holy cow I didn't know that! Awesome

I can’t explain it but when I first watched that scene and the set was still in darkness and the bedroom light had not yet been turned on my brain knew where we were in an instant and what was coming! I was stunned with hilarity and delight when the scene came to light. Perhaps it was because I was a “child of 60’s-70’s television” 📺👦🏻 whose instincts had been honed by the medium just as the instincts of a child growing up in the jungle can just feel that a Jaguar 🐆 is approaching. For me this was one of the funniest moments in television history! Bob Newhart has brought unending joy to millions. ❤️

It's a bus not a delivery van!

chessic Yes. Hi.

chessic there’s still Jim Gaffigan

Yeah, I love how he doesn't feel the need to swear to be funny. Modern comedians dont interest me, the likes of Peter Kay, Lee Evans and Mickey Flanagan cant compete with this

I thoroughly enjoyed a full evening of Jerry Seinfeld a couple of years ago. Funny, respected his audience, and not a swear word all night.

Listen to Brian Reagan

yes we can use this on Karens

What are you talking about? He received as much recognition as any comedian has ever received. He won the Grammy award with a comedy album. Not a comedy Grammy, the actual album of the year award competing against the likes of Harry Belafonte and Frank Sinatra. It was the first comedy album to ever hit number one on the Billboard chart. He had not one but two long running TV shows, each named after him. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan show eight times he guest hosted The Tonight Show 87 times, hosted SNL twice. I mean what the hell is your version of recognition lol.

Sadly, Bob Newhart was IGNORED for decades! A GREAT COMEDIAN!

lol 😂

I think it is an international school.

Beautiful place with beautiful women 👌🏾

I live in Florida and I can assure you that all bus drivers everywhere went to that same school

Danny James Not so hard for literate people with an actual real sense of humour and an eye for the absurdities of life. This was the way comedy was for more than half of the 20th century. It's only today's so-called modern 'alternative' ('alternative' meaning not actually funny) who think that profanity is,in and of itself, amusing without anything to back it up.

As a school Bus Driver, I also appreciate this.

Wayne Dalida - me too.

As a retired transit bus driver of 27 years in California, this had me laughing the whole time. This video should be included in the training classes as a stress relief video.

God to know that we in Britain share some things with America. London bus driver.

I'm not. I prefer beehive tossing.

**of**

Welll, practice makes perfect!

Well, let's just say, if I may borrow a famous line from a famous sitcom, they were never the master of their domain.

😂🤣😅

@carmium thanks for sharing that!

his bomb disposal bit is so funny.. wonder if the film is here on KZfaq... just found the trailer.. starring Steve McQueen and Bobby darrin.. introducing bob newhart.. looks like a classic 🙂

Did you guys compete to see "who could make their uniform look least like a uniform"?

Agreed. He's so fucking talented.

He’s still doing shows!

The only reason anyone uses expletives, is because the are not really funny without them. Which simply means they are not really funny at all.

mr g yeah i know he's not dead. I did say "he IS a comic genuis" doubt if he'll visit my area for me to see

Gene Williams I don’t use expletives much myself but they are only words. In some circumstances they are essential to humour, which often relies on a sudden shock. Why are rude words such a big problem?

Thanks for all these years of laughter, Bob AND for your decency! My family have loved your “stand up” routines for decades and hope both T.V. series never “retire.” Many Blessings, Walt Chura, Albany, N.Y.

D Blomgren :I bet Mrs. Sellkirk has finally caught the bus by now....