"You guys in Chicago are used to improv," sneered the acidic Ben Bailey on Friday night at the opening of UP, the new comedy club at the Second City. "You can smell written material like a pack of hound dogs. You want to hunt it down. You want me to make

Warner Archive is offering 20% off everything through February 21 for Presidents’ Day. (Does not include pre-orders, does include MGM, Sony, and HBO, does include free shipping.) At checkout, enter code PREZDAY. Expires 2/21/12. What, is that MGM mention

You see it up and down the Strip. The word "best," usually combined with the word "voted." You could cruise from Fremont Street to the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign playing a Vegas version of the Bob Newhart TV game. Take a sip when you see the wo

From Bobby Darin to Esperenza Spalding, where are the Grammys’ best new artist winners now? Famous for his songs “Mack the Knife” and “Splish Splash”, Darin also acted in movies, making his film debut in 1961’s Come September. He also owned two successfu

“The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” not only won a Grammy in 1961, i

CBS' deeply reliable navy police procedural NCIS is showing no signs of slowing down deep in its ninth season, hitting its 200th episode landmark Tuesday with an hour that entertains the "what if" idea. What if special agent Kate Todd hadn't been killed

Grammy Awards: Funny how the comedy category has changed By DEBORAH VANKIN Los Angeles Times By DEBORAH VANKIN Updated: 2012-02-07T14:16:40Z More News LOS ANGELES - The comedy category at the Grammys is a funny thing... In the unwired, pre-cable era, com

When it comes to the Grammys today, we seldom think of comedy — unless it’s some on-stage incident such as Michael Portnoy (a.k.a. Soy Bomb) crashing Bob Dylan’s 1998 set or Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder bashing the awards show during his 1996 acceptance spee

Quick TV quiz: name the series and name the star. “You know, I think, from the very beginning, we were a show that wasn’t good enough to get all that noticed and wasn’t bad enough to get cancelled. That, and we shot in Santa Clarita and no one wanted to

Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow longform on Twitter. It’s tough to find much in-depth coverage from the early days Satu

Who would have thought Nigella Lawson loves Eminem’s rap? Or Margaret Thatcher is a fan of US comedian Bob Newhart? They are just two names to have left their mark on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, which turns 70 tomorrow. It is one of BBC Radio’s lo

DVD: All 33 episodes of Bob Newhart's 1992 sitcom, Bob, about a Golden Age comic book artist's reluctant '90s resurgence will be collected on DVD in April. [Robot6] Movies: P.J. Hogan has signed on to direct an unspecified style of feature film based on

VISIT BLUE JACKETS BUZZ TV Some of you may remember the Bob Newhart Show with the characters of Larry, Darryl and my other brother Darryl. The Columbus Blue Jackets took it one step further with Derick Brassard, Derek MacKenzie and Derek Dorsett who scor

The new If You Like series of books from the Hal Leonard publishing empire is a fascinating one. The books are actually released under the Limelight Editions imprint, but I suppose that is only of particular interest to bibliophiles and the employees of

Via TV Shows on DVD comes the news that Bob Newhart’s TV show about being a comic book artist, Bob , is coming to DVD on April 3. List price for Bob the Complete Series is $39.98 for 33 episodes, but I’ve already preordered it with Amazon’s 30% discount.

It's been a spunky year for cameos and guest spots on television series. The Office had Jim Carrey. NCIS had Bob Newhart. Glee had Chewbacca. But because I'm a baseball fan, my favorite moment came when Wade Boggs, the Hall of Fame third baseman, turned

“Now, as I did with everything – every time I said no to someone in my life – I always felt compelled to come up with an alternative idea so I don’t sound like an asshole. So I swear to God on my own life, I said to them ‘You don’t want a permanent host

Yes, yes. That indeed is Bob Newhart! And doesn't he look damn good for his age! It was particularly nice to see Bob taking a stroll in Beverly Hills looking happy and in good spirits! Really, it is so nice to see him out and about. We'd love to see him

CLUE? In the opening sequence, we saw Newhart on Constance’s television. THEORY! Bob Newhart’s second sitcom was set at a small New England inn. Might be too small for American Horror Story – but I am tickled by the idea of a Psycho-esque story at the Li