 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