Jimmy Kimmel Jokes To Jon Stewart: “You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourself, You Said You Were Retiring” In Touching Tribute To Bob Newhart
deadline.comJimmy Kimmel offered a sweet and emotional tribute to Bob Newhart during the Emmys, with a twist. Kimmel came on after the In Memoriam section to laud Newhart, who died in July at the age of 94.
But the late-night host also managed to get a jibe in to his peer Jon Stewart, who beat him to win the Emmy for Talk Series with The Daily Show. “[Bob] got his first Emmy nomination in 1962 and didn’t win one until 2013, 51 years later, which is a great lesson.
And that lesson is Jon Stewart, you should be ashamed of yourself. You said you were retiring,” he joked. When we remember the legends we’ve lost over the past year, one of whom I was very lucky to know, and that was Bob Newhart.
Those of you who knew Bob personally know he’s exactly who you thought he was and hoped he’d be. He did not have range. He didn’t need to have range.
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