 A man who made TV audiences laugh for decades has died at the age of 94. Here's the one and only Bob Newhart. He was witty enough to be a regular guest on variety and talk shows. In fact, Newhart was so amusing that he could play straight man to himself. There was this routine where he's a guard at the Empire State Building talking to his boss on the phone. See, this isn't your standard ape, sir. He's between 18 and 19 stories high.