Bob Newhart - Honors

Honors

In addition to his Peabody Award and several Emmy nominations, Newhart's recognitions include:

• Three Grammy awards in 1961: Best New Artist, Best Comedy Performance (Spoken Word) and Album of the Year for The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (the first comedy record to be honored as Album of the Year).
• In 1993 Newhart was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.
• In 1996, Newhart was ranked # 17 on TV Guides "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time" list .
• In 1998, Billboard magazine recognized Newhart's first album as #20 on their list of most popular albums of the past 40 years, and the only comedy album on the list.
• On January 6, 1999 Newhart received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• In 2002 he won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
• In 2004, Newhart was #14 on Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.
• On July 27, 2004, the American cable television network TV Land unveiled a statue of Newhart on the Magnificent Mile in his native Chicago, depicting Dr. Robert Hartley from The Bob Newhart Show. The statues depict Dr. Hartley sitting in his therapy practice chair with a pencil held between his hands, and a patients' sofa next to him. The bronze set is now located in the small park in front of the entrance of Navy Pier.