Bob Newhart.

Off the record, This is an hour long comedy concert, and it's kind of a special event.

Tell us, Explain to people what this is.

Well, when I when I made the button on mine the first album in 1960 we sent the tapes to Warner Brothers Records and they edit him and they would like Oh, there's a pause will pick that up And oh, there were about two seconds there.

We take that up so you know, it wasn't when I heard it.

It was like jarring to me.

But I wasn't about to complain because it was it was a huge hit, but I thought that if I ever get the chance, thio do it the way I heard it in my head of that's, you know, as a comedian, you could understand the processes are sometimes it is important or more important than that.

The words themselves eso eso show time approached me and this is 1995 and they said, What would you like to do?

And I said, I'd like to I'd like to rerecord hearing it the way I had heard and and so we recorded.

And this is the first time it's out digitally, which is it's just like a whole new world.

It isn't like the record business.

You don't go into a store and buy it and take it home or stealing.

And Richard Bryant space, Uh and, uh, you know, you just fall up in and the next thing you know it.

Zero in the house.

Yeah, it's streaming.

Well, this is This is it's great the way it's the way I heard it originally.

Yeah, you know, many I'm not the first person to make this point, obviously, but there's such a close connection between, uh, comedy and music rhythm.

And, um, I think you more than more than any other comic I can think of, always used the space is the way a really good musician, a jazz musician, would use pauses in spaces to help create the music.

And I believe that that's that's something you honed in on very earlier in your career, when everybody else was trying to fill the space with noise.

You would take these vory long pauses, little stammers, and it was very musical.

Well, yeah, I've always felt I felt three things I've felt.

Mathematics, music and comedy.

Somehow we're all intertwined.

I'm not sure exactly how and people used to say, You know, after this interview, I stammer.

I mean, that's the way I talked because people would say, Do you really stammer?

And I said, Yeah, because there have been there have been comedians who who stuttered, but they didn't really studied.

They only stuttered on stage.

And one of them was Joe Joe.

Fiscal.

You ever hear of Joe Frisco?

He's very funny.

I don't I don't know, Joe.

I didn't know about Joe Frisco.

He studied and they told the story about Joe Frisco.

He he was staying at this flophouse in New York, and he ran into a buddy of his who was even in worse shape financially than Joe was.

And Joe said, I'll tell you what, You can stay.

You can stay with me, but you got to climb up the fire escape.

You know, when the fire escapes were on the outside of the building.

Hey, because if they find out that that you stand there, they're gonna hit me with double occupancy.

So the guy said Joe.

Sure.

So he calls up the outside and he's in Joe's small apartment and the phone rings.

It's the clerk downstairs, and he said, Mr Mr Frisco, we know that you have a guest and we're going to charge you for double occupancy.

And Joe Frisco, who really stuttered, said, Oh, okay.

But since send up send send, send up another Gideon Bible, we lost sound.

I am themselves.

I can't hear.

I can't hear anything.

Can you hear me?

Yeah.

Good, good, Good.

There was a great moment there where we're doing this, obviously via Zoom.

And you told this punch line and I laughed really hard, but you couldn't hear me.

You couldn't hear me laughing.

And you thought that I just didn't like the joke and that you had bombed.

Is that true?

Which I've been through before, you know?

Yeah.

I've never experienced that, Bob, So I don't know what it's like, But you know what?

You know what I dislike?

What?

You hear the air conditioning?

Yes.

Well, I I'm quite familiar.

There are times you there's a phone ringing.

What?

Bob, you're not taking this interview very seriously.

You're clearly not taking This is a big deal to be on the Conan o Brien show, and you're treating me with contempt on the phone with, uh, But you did for a moment there we were talking on zoo.

I know men don't complement other men on their hair, but I like I like the way you're doing your hair.

Thank thank you.

You've always been a big supporter of my hair in my career, but somebody has.

Yeah.

Not so much my comedy, but you've always said the hair is good.

That z more important to me than the comedy.

Um, you must be very anxious to get out there and do stand up again.

I'm very anxious to get out of this interview.

That's it.

You've done nothing but abuse me.

I think I've been good to you.

I think I've been good to Jenny.

And how am I repaid with absolute scorn?

Uh, you got to check this out.

The hour long comedy concert, Bob Newhart.

Off the record, this is very special is available to stream digitally for the first time via streams on all major digital platforms.

And whether you're a incredible fan of comedy like myself or just someone who wants to laugh right now.

Make sure you check that out, Bob.

Thank you.

Thank you for doing this in it.

Well, you did.

You did my podcast, and it was an hour of you insulting me viciously.

I've never heard my staff laugh harder.

They loved it.

So, Conan, it was low hanging fruit.

I mean, you could you couldn't avoid it.

You're saying that I leave myself open?

Maybe Ideo, maybe Ideo.

Well, Bob, I can't wait for this pandemic to be over.

You know, the last thing that happened, my last social engagement was my wife, Liz, and I were gonna have dinner with you and Jenny.

And it was the night that they shut down all the restaurants in L.

A.

And I've been suspicious ever since that you somehow you did something to get out of that engagement.

That's the excuse we used just on.

Guess what?