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222. Over time he achieved a comic legacy such that the late Norm MacDonald once made David Letterman collapse in giggles by relating how he shared the Brewers booth with Uecker as the announcer ...
Bob Uecker was entertaining in everything he did. On the microphone calling Milwaukee Brewers games, in movies and commercials, and even in the wrestling world when he got his hands on a microphone.
Milwaukee fans could listen to Uecker broadcast Brewers games for over a half-century, but he showed off his play-by-play skills — and comedic talent — for more of a national audience when he ...
Bob Uecker had the kind of career stat line that ... He appeared in several well-known Miller Lite commercials, in which he poked fun at himself when he declared, “I must be in the front row ...
For those trained in the art of self-deprecation, death must be no great surprise. Bob Uecker died today at the age of 90. A veteran of two heart surgeries, he had been battling lung cancer for ...
From there, Uecker reached most households as one of the Miller Lite All-Stars in popular commercials for the beer brand based out of Milwaukee and Uecker later launched his TV acting career in ...
playing up the more sarcastic side of Uecker’s comedy that often got highlighted in his long stint as a commercial star for Miller Lite. (Certainly, Doyle’s a much more enjoyably crass ...
Uecker also starred in a popular series of Miller Lite commercials, the ABC sitcom “Mr. Belvedere” and the “Major League” films, where he played a drinking radio announcer. Perhaps the ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bob Uecker, who parlayed a forgettable playing career into a punch line for movie and TV appearances as “Mr. Baseball” and a Hall of Fame broadcasting tenure, has died.
It's unbelievably tough," Uecker was a man of many talents, and humour was perhaps one of the biggest of them. He had an amusing answer when asked about his golfing abilities (via Golf.com).