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Bill daily1/2/2023 ![]() ![]() After that, he was signed to do comedy albums, movies and such.”ĭaily and Newhart also worked together as pinsetters at a bowling alley, his son noted.ĭuring his days off, Daily drove to Cleveland to write, direct and perform on The Mike Douglas Show. I knew Bob had his ‘Abe Lincoln Press Agent’ bit from playing the local clubs, so he went on the show, he did the bit and just killed. “Right before the show, the engineers went on strike, which meant I had more minutes to fill. “I was helping to produce an awards show, and at the time Bob was still my accountant,” he recalled in 2014. He also was doing stand-up and met Newhart, an accountant who also was just starting out in comedy. After serving in the Korean War, he returned to the Windy City to study stage directing at the Goodman Theatre School.ĭaily worked at WGN on Cubs games and then was hired as a floor director at WMAQ-TV, the NBC affiliate in Chicago, where he eventually wrote for and performed on a daily variety show called Club 60. An only child, Daily grew up in Chicago and discovered that people might not notice his dyslexia if he made them laugh.ĭaily attended Lane Tech High School and played double bass and sang in a jazz/comedy trio that toured the country. He once said that when he was just a baby, his father went out “for a loaf of bread” and never returned. ![]() 'The Bob Newhart Show,' 40 Years Later: An Oral History of TV's Game-Changing Comedy He was one of the most positive people I ever knew, and we’ll dearly miss him.” BILL DAILY TVIn recent years, we had hoped to have Bill be a part of The Bob Newhart Show tributes at the TV Academy, but by then he was no longer traveling. “Whenever we were having trouble with a script on the show, we’d have Bill make an appearance. “I called him our bullpen man,” Newhart said in a statement released Friday night. “I asked him once, ‘Where’d you come up with that silly walk?’ He said, ‘What are you talking about?’ I said, ‘The way you lope into the room like a giraffe.’ He said, ‘That’s my walk.'” ![]() “Bill was totally unaware of how he came off,” writer-producer Tom Patchett told THR in an oral history of the show. A divorced pilot, Howard suffered from a constant case of jet lag and had a habit of barging into the Hartleys’ apartment without knocking. When that didn’t make it to series, the writers tapped Daily to play Howard Borden (named for the milk company), a neighbor of Chicago psychologist Bob (Newhart) and Emily Hartley (Suzanne Pleshette). The episode was created by writer-producers Lorenzo Music and David Davis as a showcase for him to star in a pilot. In 1972, Daily guest-starred as an incompetent city councilman on a second-season installment of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After appearances on the TV comedies Bewitched and The Farmer’s Daughter, Daily attracted the attention of I Dream of Jeannie creator Sidney Sheldon and landed the role of the goofy Roger Healey, the best friend of another NASA astronaut, Anthony Nelson (Larry Hagman), on the fantasy comedy that starred Barbara Eden as a rather attractive genie. ![]()
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