Bob Newhart, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back (1960)
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Kids, there was a time when a comedian could entertain, enthral even – without using the ‘F-word’. Bill Cosby still does it. But there are not many who can do it. Bob Newhart could do it – and in the early 1960s his comedy career exploded with a run of albums that featured his trademark story-telling …
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