![]() The comedian told me that The Bob Newhart Show was a well oiled machine. “She said, ‘Well stick a banana up his ass and send him home.'” “The doctor said, ‘You can’t take him home, he needs more potassium.’” recalled Daily. One time, he went with Pleschette to pick up Poston, who was in failing health in a hospital. Late in life, Pleschette married mutual friend Tom Poston, who co-starred on Newhart’s ’80s sitcom.ĭaily claims Pleschette had a dark sense of humour. One of his co-stars on Bob Newhart was the late Suzanne Pleschette. They must have liked me on I Dream of Jeannie.” But he was grateful that it was me because we’re good friends. “You never allowed the star to pick the people…because he doesn’t understand the overall, where they’re going, the writing. Daily claimed it was just a coincidence that he was cast. Over a dozen years later, Daily is hired to play the neighbour on The Bob Newhart Show. “Standing ovation, got Hollywood contracts.” Newhart scrambled over to the station and did his bit about Abraham Lincoln’s press agent, “and killed everybody,” said Daily. Daily scrambled to find performers who could fill time on the broadcast and put in a call in to his stand-up pal. “Five minutes before that show began that night, the engineers went on strike,” he recalled. Just quiet, gentle.” In the late ’50s, Daily was directing a local Emmy telecast. ![]() Newhart, who worked in advertising, became Daily’s accountant.ĭaily called Newhart the “nicest guy ever. Later in the ’50s, Daily did stand-up and performed on bills with another fledgling Chicago comic, Bob Newhart. Delugg’s was the house band on the precursor to The Tonight Show, Broadway Open House, and Daily told me he performed on that series, which ran from 1950 to 1951. He grew up in Chicago and got work in bands and orchestras playing bass with the likes of Milton DeLugg. I’d thought a few times over the years that I should call Daily back to hear more jokes. Here’s one he attributed to Phyllis Diller: “Hear about the guy who has five penises? His pants fit him like a glove!” “Fellow walks into a library and says, ‘I’ll have a cheeseburger.’ and she says, ‘Sir, this is a library,’ and he says,, ‘Okay, I’ll have a cheeseburger.'” “A priest a pedophile and a drunk walk into a bar - and that’s just the first guy.” ![]() ![]() Read them below, or, better yet, listen to Daily tell me the jokes here. If you loved that show, or know somebody who did, buy the box set here.ĭaily told me three funny jokes in the course of our interview. The interview was timed to the release of a boxed set complete collection DVD of The Bob Newhart Show by Shout Factory. #BILL DAILY FULL#He retained his frazzled charm and was full of stories about all his former co-stars when I spoke with him five years ago. He became to many of us the guy you wished lived next door. 4 in New Mexico at the age of 91.ĭaily played apartment-crashing neighbour and airline co-pilot Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show (1972 – 78) and, before that, astronaut Roger Healey opposite Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden on I Dream of Jeannie (1965 – 70). ![]() #BILL DAILY TV#A familiar and welcome face on TV through the ’60s and ’70s, the comedian and actor died Sept. One of my favourite all-time phone interviews was with Bill Daily. ![]()
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