I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

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"Laughter gives us distance. At that hour everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze -- at least until they fall off their chair. He then enrolled at Loyola University of Chicago where he graduated in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in business management.

One of his most recent roles is the library head Judson in The Librarian. Newhart later went into acting starring in two long-running and prize-winning situation comedies first as psychologist Dr. He also had a third short-lived sitcom in the nineties titled Bob.