Bye, Bob.
You meant the world to so many of us. Your talents certainly weren't confined to your television work (your vinyl comedy albums are legendary), but it is there that you most famously entertained generations of fans old and new. Like so many entertainment icons before you, and the few that are left, you helped make broadcast television the cultural behemoth that it became, beginning in 1961 with your NBC variety hour and continuing in the '70s with your classic sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and your memorable guest-hosting stints on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, in the '80s with your other smash sitcom Newhart, in the 2000s with two other sadly short-lived sitcoms (Bob and George and Leo) and then in the current millennium with recurring roles on Desperate Housewives, The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon.
