Bob Newhart parlayed his deadpan style into sitcom gold. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Bob Newhart, the “button-down” stand-up comedy sensation of the 1960s who parlayed his low-key, Everyman ...

There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the ...

Comedian Ruth Buzzi, first famous for her time on the NBC variety show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" starting in the late 1960s, died May 1 at her home in Texas, her family announced Friday. According ...

Bob Newhart, the genteel but sharply satirical comic whose TV series “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart” were huge hits throughout the 1970s and ’80s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 94. Newhart ...

A respected comedy writer sits over lunch with a man who, in the late 1960s, was very, very famous. This man, slender and balding, was a comedian who, with his younger brother, hosted a network ...

One of the most important sketch comedy shows in television history brilliantly subverted an old NBC tagline for its show ...

Ancient 1960s folklore says that once you take a puff of some sweet ganja, giggles will follow. Transit Lounge is kinda banking on the fact that you hit some of this in the car before rolling into the ...

Bob Newhart, the “button-down” stand-up comedy sensation of the 1960s who parlayed his low-key, Everyman demeanor and trademark stammering delivery into sitcom gold as the star of two classic TV ...