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cryptic_mythic t1_jeclfi2 wrote

Bob Newhart might be the quintessential straight man

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Latter_Feeling2656 t1_jecobvc wrote

Newhart has a lot of style in common with Jack Benny, and "Newhart" was somewhat inspired by the Benny film George Washington Slept Here. What Newhart and Benny both demonstrated was that a good straight man has to be capable of going off himself at intervals.

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