Modified On July 18, 2005
After seeing our concentrated assailing of the media in recent postings (and after seeing our quote from Newhart), Vancouver journalist Guy McPherson dropped us a nice email in which he hipped us to his publication’s archive of McPherson-bylined comedy reviews and sent along another quote from Mr. Newhart, this one from an interview McPherson conducted in 2000. Newhart had recently encountered Billy Crystal during a round of golf and Crystal informed Newhart that he was getting back into standup. (It being a transcript of a phoner, Newhart’s signature telephonic stammering is included):
“And I said, you know, I really… It really bothers me that a lot of the young guys coming up, coming out of standup, once they attain success in movies or on television, they stop doing standup. And I think it’s wrong. Because if you’re able to do standup I think you have a responsibility to do standup… Be-because everyone doesn’t have that talent. So you shouldn’t squander it.”
Now, be good comedy fans and hop on over to straight.com to check out some of that standup rhumination!