Bob Newhart

Newhart insisted there never be any children for his character to be the father of in each of his television series. "I told the creators I didn't want any children, because I didn't want it to be a show about 'How stupid Daddy is, but we love him so much, let's get him out of the trouble he's gotten himself into.'" In the sixth year of Newhart's CBS sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show (1972), the writers wrote a script in which Emily Hartley was pregnant. When Newhart was asked his opinion of the script, he said, "It's very funny. Who are you going to get to play Bob?".
Guest hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) 87 times.
Received his first Emmy Award nomination in 1962. He did not win until 2014, 52 years later, for playing "Professor Proton" (a.k.a. Arthur Jeffries) in the sitcom episode The Proton Displacement (2013).
Drafted in the United States Army and served stateside during Korean War until he was honorably discharged (1954).
His wife, Ginny Newhart, came up with the idea for The Last Newhart (1990) (the last episode of Newhart (1982)), in which the entire 1982 series was all a dream of Dr. Bob Hartley of The Bob Newhart Show (1972).

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.
[on quitting The Bob Newhart Show (1972) at the end of the fifth season, before CBS wouldn't allow him to do that]: This is no ploy, no device for negotiation. I am absolutely sincere about leaving the series at the end of production this year and CBS has been notified.
[Who made his reputation and fortune as a monologist]: I like the humor to come out of character. When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.
[In 1972]: The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.