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.
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.
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.
The so called modern eras entertainers by and large suck like a world class hoover! I miss the old ones that were funny without being crude, honestly heartwarming and family oriented. Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Red skelton, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Carol Burnett, Ernie Kovacs, God there were So Many! Even back then Disney! What do we have now? Nada,zip, diddly spit!
1967 Cam Rhan Bay and I was there. Young and full of “so what” and had no idea of the significance until years later. All I remember is Raquel Welch looked hot!
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