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• 'The Bob Newhart Show' Memorial Day weekend marathon: 'The show holds up,' says star

  "People ask how much power I had over the show," Bob Newhart reflects about his 1970s sitcom. "And I say, 'Power is a funny thing. It really only exists when it's exercised sparingly.'"...

• 'The Tonight Show' with Bob Newhart instead of Johnny Carson? 'I think I was being groomed'

  "I'd done it for three weeks in New York, and I was a zombie after that," Bob Newhart says of having possibly replaced Johnny Carson as "Tonight Show" host. "And that man did it for 30 years!"...

• Will Ferrell joins Cosby, Carlin, Pryor in the Mark Twain humor prize ranks

  ...are Tina Fey, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Billy Crystal, Neil Simon, Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Lily Tomlin, Bob Newhart, Whoopi Goldberg, Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters and Richard Pryor, who took the inaugural award in 1998. This Kennedy......

• Bob Newhart, David McCallum unite on 'NCIS': What did you think?

  Newhart took the role in part because "NCIS" is his wife, Ginnie's favorite show, but he didn't have to be persuaded much. "If you can pick and choose, why not go with the No. 1 drama on TV?" he says....