It finialy happened! After a career spanning half a century, TV legend Bob Newhart has his very first Emmy award. The 84-year-old actor brought home the honor for his guest role on the hit CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Bob Newhart is a television legend. Newhart starred in both the 1960s variety version of The Bob Newhart Show and the 1970s sitcom of the same name, as well his 1980s show, simply titled Newhart. The man has remained a television fixture for over five decades, and is only now being awarded one of TV's highest honors.
At Sunday night's Prime Time Creative Arts Emmys ceremony, Newhart won the award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as Professor Proton on The Big Bang Theory.
The event, held one week before the main show, focuses on behind the scenes awards as well as guest spots.
The Grammy award winner has been nominated for several Emmys but has never won. Still, after being snubbed over the years, Newhart never grew bitter, as he humbly told reporters back stage:
“The best answer to that really is whenever I was nominated, there were better people in the category than me. That’s the truth. The best person wins. That’s the way it is.”
Newhart's first Emmy nomation came for his work on the first Bob Newhart Show for which he also won a Peabody award. At the time, the Peabody Board commented on the legend:
"...a person whose gentle satire and wry and irreverent wit waft a breath of fresh and bracing air through the stale and stuffy electronic corridors. A merry marauder, who looks less like St. George than a choirboy, Newhart has wounded, if not slain, many of the dragons that stalk our society. In a troubled and apprehensive world, Newhart has proved once again that laughter is the best medicine."
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