鲍勃·纽哈特是我的榜样。他的喜剧是一种祝福

我还差六个月就满 80 岁了，两周后我将从佛蒙特州前往田纳西州查塔努加，出演 75 分钟的单口喜剧。为什么我还在路上？

Bob Newhart performing his stand-up act, selling his look on The Ed Sullivan Present. Picture by Hulton Archive/Getty Photographs

鲍勃·纽哈特 (Bob Newhart) 表演单口喜剧，在《埃德·沙利文秀》(The Ed Sullivan Present) 中推销自己的造型。图片来源：Hulton Archive/Getty Photography

By Rabbi Bob Alper July 19, 2024

作者：拉比·鲍勃·阿尔珀 2024 年 7 月 19 日

I’m six months shy of 80 and in two weeks I’ll head from Vermont to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to do 75 minutes of stand-up comedy. Why am I nonetheless on the market? As Bob Newhart, who died this week at 94, defined, it was price it to him to take his footwear off at airport safety to have the ability to have the chance to make folks giggle.

我还差六个月就满 80 岁了，两周后我将从佛蒙特州前往田纳西州查塔努加，出演 75 分钟的单口喜剧。为什么我还在市场上？正如本周去世、享年 94 岁的鲍勃·纽哈特 (Bob Newhart) 所定义的那样，为了有机会让人们咯咯笑，他在机场安全处脱掉鞋子是值得的。

Me too.

我也是。

It’s superb to suppose that Bob Newhart has been my most essential function mannequin since 1960. That’s when his enduringly humorous comedy album The Button-Down Thoughts of Bob Newhart made its debut. A highschool junior, I memorized the routines, and once I attended Jewish youth conclaves, I nervously took the stage on expertise night time and carried out them word-for-word. Individuals laughed. I grew assured. And the women — the women — actually paid consideration. Comedy, I noticed, was good.

自 1960 年以来，鲍勃·纽哈特 (Bob Newhart) 一直是我最重要的角色典范，这真是太棒了。就在那时，他的幽默喜剧专辑《鲍勃·纽哈特 (Bob Newhart) 的扣扣下的想法》首次亮相。高中三年级时，我记住了这些惯例，当我参加犹太青年秘密会议时，我紧张地登上了专业晚会的舞台，并逐字逐句地执行了它们。个人都笑了。我放心了。而女性——女性——实际上也给予了考虑。我注意到，喜剧很好。

It by no means occurred to me that I may ever grow to be knowledgeable comic. I pursued a logical non secular and vocational aim, grew to become a rabbi, served giant congregations after which, on a whim, entered Philadelphia’s “Jewish Comedian of the 12 months Contest” in 1986, coming in third behind a chiropractor and a lawyer. It launched my stunning second profession that I am keen on.

我从来没有想过我会成为一名知识渊博的喜剧演员。我追求合乎逻辑的非世俗和职业目标，后来成为一名拉比，为大型会众服务，之后一时兴起，参加了 1986 年费城的“12 个月犹太喜剧演员大赛”，获得第三名，仅次于脊椎按摩师和律师。它开启了我热衷的令人惊叹的第二职业。

In practically each interview folks ask about my comedy journey, and practically at all times inquire about my comic inspirations. I appear like Steve Martin, and Jackie Mason was a rabbi, however, I at all times clarify, it was Bob Newhart whom I admired greater than all of the others — and never simply trigger we’re each named Bob.

几乎在每次采访中，人们都会询问我的喜剧之旅，并且几乎总是询问我的喜剧灵感。我看起来像史蒂夫·马丁，而杰基·梅森是一位拉比，但是，我总是澄清，我比其他人更钦佩的是鲍勃·纽哈特——而且永远不会简单地触发我们每个人都叫鲍勃。

Newhart, who began out as an accountant, was by all experiences a mensch. He led an admirable private life: a 60-year marriage as a loving husband and devoted father and grandfather. No drama. No scandals. A quiet, unassuming man regardless of the tempting glamour that characterised his Hollywood world.

纽哈特最初是一名会计师，从各方面来看，他都是一个正人君子。他的私生活令人钦佩：作为一位慈爱的丈夫、忠诚的父亲和祖父，婚姻生活长达 60 年。没有戏剧。没有丑闻。他是一个安静、谦逊的男人，尽管他的好莱坞世界充满了诱人的魅力。

And his comedy was distinctive, significantly his monologues with a phone. Low-key but amazingly intelligent. By no means offended, by no means hurtful, by no means insulting (this regardless of his greatest buddy being Don Rickles). Newhart’s work, together with his namesake sitcoms, was simply guffaw-inducing humor that’s as good right this moment because it was within the Sixties. In reality, once I noticed him carry out years in the past, he did some new materials, but it surely was his sharing routines from his decades-old albums, which I knew by coronary heart, that had me laughing probably the most.

他的喜剧很独特，尤其是他用手机进行的独白。低调但聪明得惊人。绝不冒犯，绝不伤害，绝不侮辱（不管他最好的朋友是唐·里克斯）。纽哈特的作品，以及他的同名情景喜剧，都是令人捧腹大笑的幽默，在此时此刻同样精彩，因为它发生在六十年代。事实上，当我注意到他几年前的表演时，他做了一些新的材料，但我深知，最让我笑的肯定是他分享他几十年前的专辑中的套路。

Maybe surprisingly, of all the various comedians I’ve watched all through the years, it was Bob Newhart, a practising Roman Catholic, who served as my private mannequin. Newhart’s stage presence was low-key, mild, and his slight stammer made him appear even considerably weak. I believe it was his grounding in his religion that impressed his always-respectful and sure, candy, model of comedy.

也许令人惊讶的是，在我多年来看过的所有喜剧演员中，鲍勃·纽哈特（Bob Newhart）是一位虔诚的罗马天主教徒，他充当了我的私人模特。纽哈特的舞台表现低调、温和，轻微的结巴让他显得更加虚弱。我相信，正是他对宗教的根深蒂固给他留下了深刻的印象，他总是充满尊重、自信、可爱，是喜剧的典范。

About 10 years in the past I carried out at The Chautauqua Establishment and realized that Newhart can be showing the next week. I shared my admiration with my contact there, and two weeks later a signed headshot appeared in my mailbox. It’s a valuable possession, exemplifying his kindness and comedic brilliance in simply four intelligent phrases. He wrote, “To Rabbi Bob Newhart.” How’s that for financial system?

大约十年前，我在肖托夸公司进行演出，并意识到纽哈特可以在下周展出。我向那里的联系人表达了我的钦佩之情，两周后，一张签名的头像出现在我的邮箱中。这是一笔宝贵的财产，仅用四个聪明的短语就体现了他的善良和喜剧才华。他写道：“致拉比鲍勃·纽哈特。”金融体系怎么样？

“Might his reminiscence be a blessing,” we are saying. Every time I hear the phrases, “The Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Firm” from one among Newhart’s routines, I chuckle.

“也许他的回忆是一种祝福，”我们说。每当我在纽哈特的例程中听到“格雷斯·L·弗格森航空公司和风暴门公司”这句话时，我都会笑起来。

And it’s at that second that Bob Newhart’s reminiscence is certainly a blessing.

正是在那一刻，鲍勃·纽哈特的回忆无疑是一种祝福。

Rabbi Bob Alper is a stand-up comedian who performs internationally. He’s additionally the creator of two inspirational books. Bob and his spouse Sherri reside in Vermont, however they don’t run an inn.

鲍勃·阿尔珀拉比 (Rabbi Bob Alper) 是一位在国际舞台上表演的单口喜剧演员。他还是两本励志书籍的作者。鲍勃和他的妻子雪莉居住在佛蒙特州，但他们不经营旅馆。

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