Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.
Bob NewhartI think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.
Bob NewhartI was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.
Bob NewhartStammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.
Bob Newhart