I couldn't agree more. Have watched the Dean Martin Roasts and Variety Show Infomercials for hours because they're so entertaining.
Posted on 12/23/2013 3:33:00 PM PST by Doogle
Another year and another chance to reminisce.
http://biggeekdad.com/2011/02/bob-hope-christmas/
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No doubt, the Bob Hope Christmas specials kicked off the Christmas Season in fine fashion. The highlight being the introduction of the All American Football Team. The appropriate end of the holiday being all day football New Years Day.
Thank goodness for Obama. If it weren’t for him I’d have nothing to look forward to Christmas Eve by filling out my ObamaRipoff forms. I hope I find time to do that.
Old Fogie Alert.
There is no way on God’s Good Earth that recent generations have anything like the talented stars we grew up with.
Comedians, singers, actors, tv hosts.
Carson, Hackett, Berle, Rickels, Deano, Sinatra, Hope, Crosby, Wayne, Stewart, Dangerfield, Lucy, Burnett, the list goes on and on.
Maybe Steve Martin was a genuine multi talented star and he’s old now anyway.
I am 34. The first time I remember seeing him, was when he visited the troops during Operation Desert Shield in 1990.
You forgot Spike Jones.
HEEHEEHEE. No clues, no hints, no help.
If you know, you know. If you don’t, you don’t.
Yep, that’s a classic!!!!
“I can’t take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk”
Talkin' with a friend just the other day about this very thing.
His line in the movie Spies like Us is doubly appropriate today.
“Glad I’m not sick!!!” - Bob Hope
I think he may have been the greatest entertainer ever.
Not to belittle him but my grandpappy said his jokes were written by others and he read them off cue cards. He still was a great guy accordingly.
Somewhere, I still have ORIGINAL records, 78rpm, clay.
Scratchy? You bet. Clear as a bell and still make you fall down laughing.
Just like Damon Runyan could.
....he had great timing, and could ad lib at the drop of a hat
He was a lot more naughty will Doris Day on his radio program - sort of the way Warner Bros cartoons carry - or used to - loaded humor that appeals to adults.
Agreed. The mark of a terrific comedian. Just like George Burns.
“You can pull my left leg, and you can pull my right leg, but don’t mess with Mr. Inbetween.”
All of the great comics who came out of radio had writers. The demands of a weekly show, plus club appearances (and later TV) made it impossible for any comedian to write all of his material.
If anyone doubts Mr. Hope’s comic skills, check out his Tonight Show appearances in the 70s and 80s. At an age when most comedians were retired or dead, “Rapid Robert” was very fast—and very funny.
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