A Quote by Jim Gaffigan

I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield. — © Jim Gaffigan
I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield.

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AOL is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Web. We don't get no respect.
PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.
Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
I was a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield. He had this HBO Young Comedians Special and he'd always bring up new talent, and I loved that!
I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.
Bob Newhart, who is my best friend, is one of the guys I adore.
To be sandwiched between Jane Curtin and Bob Newhart for a couple weeks is phenomenal.
The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart. They are a big reason I'm a storyteller because they are two of the best.
When I play 'Newhart' in concert, it always gets a hand, right from the very beginning. To me, 'Newhart' is a hit.
It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, or Joan Rivers. There are a lot of good comics out there, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics.
I was the All-American kid, or so I told myself - good grades, never in trouble, bright future, well-respected by my peers. My favorite comedian was Bob Newhart.
I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.
I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.
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