Bob Newhart Hometown Celebration

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Bob Newhart
Hometown Celebration





Join Growing Community Media for a Bob Newhart Hometown Celebration on September 4th at the Comedy Plex Comedy Club in Oak Park! 


We’re celebrating the life and comedic genius of Chicago West Sider Bob Newhart, and we want YOU to be a part of it! 

  

At 6:30 p.m., doors will open to the Comedy Plex Comedy Club for the night’s comedy show. You can mix and mingle  with other local GCM readers at the Comedy Plex bar during the cocktail hour. At 7:00 p.m., the laughs continue with video presentations from some former cast members, family, and featuring local stand-up comedians, including Chicago based Paul Farahvar, who delights audiences with his unique, quick witted dry humor (Newhart, anyone?!)


We hope you will join us! 


More About Bob Newhart

Newhart was born Sept. 5, 1929, at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park and grew up on North Mason Street in Austin, just a few blocks from Oak Park. He attended St. Catherine of Siena grade school, now St. Catherine – St. Lucy School, in Oak Park before attending St. Ignatius College Prep high school in Chicago and Loyola University Chicago, graduating with a business management degree in 1952.

After releasing “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart,” a 1960 album recording of his standup routine, Newhart won two Grammy awards for the record, including best new artist and album of the year.

Newhart is best known for starring in two hit television shows bearing his name in the 1970s and ‘80s. After “The Bob Newhart Show,” which premiered in 1961, was canceled after one season, the comedian went on to star in another “Bob Newhart Show” that ran from 1972 through 1978, where he played a psychologist living in Chicago. He later launched another show, “Newhart,” in 1982 that ran through 1990. Many young people also know Bob as “Papa Elf” from the 2003 film Elf starring Will Ferrell. 


We had planned to celebrate Bob Newhart’s 95th birthday on September 5th (9/5), but on July 18, 2024 Bob passed at 94. We hope this event will still be celebratory, memorable, and even make you laugh. 


“The only way to survive is to have a sense of humor.” 

- Bob Newhart

 


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Wednesday September 04, 2024
6:30 PM ​ 8:00 PM (America/Chicago)
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Comedy Plex

1128 Lake St
Lower Level
Oak Park IL 60301
United States
+1 (708) 665-PLEX
info@comedyplex.com
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* Depending on seating, you may be seated with other guest.​
* Upon entry of the venue, (i) you hereby irrevocably grant the venue owner (Comedy Plex), and its parent(s), affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees, successors, and assigns ​(collectively, "Owner") the right to photograph, record, film ​​and otherwise capture your image, voice, and likeness (collectively, "Footage") and to own, license, assign and/or use the Footage (and/or any portion thereof) in perpetuity,​ throughout the world in any and all media including, without limitation, in connection with any productions, programming, advertising and promotion, subject in all respects in Owner's sole discretion.
*We will not except tickets from 3rd party vendors. Your picture ID must match the name on your ticket.
* Seating is first come first serve with a strict no-call, no-show policy. Please call Comedy Plex if you are running late.
* Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime.
* Shows run about an hour and thirty minutes
This is a Cashless Establishment.*accompanied by guardian.
*Shows are 21 and older unless accompanied by an adult 
*2 DRINK MINIMUM per guest 
(alcohol or non-alcohol)
*Tickets are non-refundable

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