comedians

What About Bob? On the Legacy of One of the Best-Loved Comedians, Bob Newhart (1929-2024) | Tributes

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Some of Newhart’s most fondly remembered routines hilariously skewered Madison Avenue. In “Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue,” an increasingly flustered imagemaker tries to get Abe to stick to the Gettysburg Address script (“You changed four score and seven to eighty-seven? Abe, that’s meant to be a grabber.”) That routine kicks off The Button-Down Mind of Bob … Read more

Norm Macdonald’s sniping of O.J. Simpson on Weekend Update contributed to the comedian’s SNL firing

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Norm Macdonald delivered some of his best material on Weekend Update in order to take O.J. Simpson down every Saturday night. With the passing of controversial pop culture figure O.J. Simpson this week, some of us could only think of one thing…OK, maybe not just that. There was also the constant flaming of O.J. from … Read more