Norman Lear, your hat voted for William Taft and you know it.

Newhart reminded the crowd that before he entered the stand-up business, he was an accountant.

People will say, Were you really an accountant?

Carol Burnett; Bob Newhart; Norman Lear; Carl Reiner; Lily Tomlin

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I always say, Why would you lie about that?

We used to get $65 a week and the claimants got $55, Newhart remembered.

And they only had to come in one day a week.

People on the red carpet acted like I really belong here.

How do you live up to that?

So he asked me, What do you want to change it to?

And I said Carl.

I was told by online grid executives that comedy variety was a mans game.

And they said, its not for you gals.