# Bob Newhart -- 12 Days of Christmas

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 23, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-newhart-12-days-of-christmas/281403 "2004-12-23T23:14:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-newhart-12-days-of-christmas/281403/1 "2004-12-23T23:14:04Z")

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In the back of my mind I have the impression that Bob Newhart once did a “12 Days of Christmas” sketch. This would have been in the late '60s or early '70s on some celebrity holiday special.

I recall him starting out on the phone trying to order the props needed for his presentation.

“I need a partridge in a pear tree…No? Well what do you have… Okay, send that over, it will have to do…” etc.

He tries to make the best of it, but the only thing I remember from his reading of the poem/song is “… and a chicken in a palm tree.”

Am I imagining things again? Does anyone else remember this?

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**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-newhart-12-days-of-christmas/281403/2 "2004-12-24T03:51:50Z")

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Bob Newhart could probably read the actual text of the 12 Days of Christmas and make me laugh.