She was on The Bob Newhart Show more than once. Sam Honigberg, Bob Newhart's manager, asked Ginnie if she would be on The Bob Newhart Show while it was airing. He told us, 'Well, we need background dancers in the back of Gisele MacKenzie's show,'" Ginnie remembered. The next thing I know, I'm moving to a flat, and I'm not a dancer. I got paid less, though. Ginnie told PBS for Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned in 2005 that she wasn't a dancer, even though she had been in a few background scenes. Bud Hackett helped her meet Bob. Buddy Hackett helped Ginnie Newhart meet Bob Newhart by having her babysit his kids a lot of the time. He came home one day and said, 'I met this guy,'" Ginnie said. Bob Newhart is his name. He's great, and I think you should …show more content…
Ginnie said that Bob Newhart's proposal was simple: "He asked, 'Would you go to St. Louis in the winter if you had a ring on your finger?'" Are they okay with you going? You're proposing, I told them. He replied, "Yes."" On January 12, 1963, they got married. Ginnie wrote later, "I think it frightened him when he married me because he said, 'I'm no longer just responsible for myself, I have a wife.'" They had four kids …show more content…
Bob Newhart said laughter was a big part of why his marriage worked and lasted so long. In an interview with Parade in 2022, Bob talked about how important laughing was to their relationship. "The marriages of comedians, no matter how stormy, seem to last a long time, and I attribute it to laughter," he stated. The fight between you and your partner can always be a funny one. Then you both look at each other and laugh. You know what to do? It's over. I believe a sense of fun is very important for a marriage to last a long time. In a 2005 interview with PBS, Ginnie Newhart said the same thing: "Comedians are just fun to be with." Their marriages seem to last a long time. Ginnie was Bob's main source of support. Bob Newhart thanked Ginnie for always being there for him during their marriage, especially when things were tough at work. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning in 2020, Bob talked about how Ginnie would be there for him no matter what was going on in his life. He talked about how Ginnie had told him in the changing room, "Something is wrong with the sound system." I didn't hear anything about it. Honey, there was nothing wrong with the sound system," I told her. They didn't