He was working as an accountant in Chicago in the mid-1950's... began to concoct routines of telephone calls between historical figures.
Tapes of Newhart's routines eventually made their way to a record company. The result was the 1960 comedy album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.
Newhart went on to have two hit sitcoms, in which he portrayed mild-seeming men... trying to maneuver in a world of colorful characters.
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