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Adenoid_Hynkel

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14. nah, he just sucked

Reply to dhol82 (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 17, 2017, 03:35 AM

Nov 2017

Quick - name a funny Bob Hope routine. There isn't one.

All he ever did was read other people's jokes off cue cards. No signature performance to speak of.

Age has nothing to do with it.

Jack Benny still makes me laugh my ass off. Chaplin and Keaton are brilliant. Abbot and Costello hold up. Ditto Groucho. And Carson's quick wit and ad libs in interviews are the stuff of legend.

But Hope - He's that unfunny guy your parents and grandparents watched out of tradition, who didn't have an original bit in his entire career.

He kissed executive ass for decades, knew the right people and coasted on no talent. He was the proto-Jimmy Fallon.

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The Bob Hope USO shows were always a mystery to me... [View all] milestogo Nov 2017 OP

That was the first thing I thought about when the news hit the fan dhol82 Nov 2017 #1

A lot of the old comedians used women jokes in their routines. nt Irish_Dem Nov 2017 #3

The Zeitgeist, or spirit of the time, has changed. Irish_Dem Nov 2017 #2

Hopes appeal was always a mystery to me. BannonsLiver Nov 2017 #4

It went with the times. dhol82 Nov 2017 #5

I'd be interested to hear what the shows are like now, and whether they have changed much. milestogo Nov 2017 #7

Me too dhol82 Nov 2017 #8

nah, he just sucked Adenoid_Hynkel Nov 2017 #14

There was also that annoying thing of Hope randomly crashing talk shows Ken Burch Nov 2017 #15

Milton Berle used to do the crashing the show bit Adenoid_Hynkel Nov 2017 #18

I know what you mean. I never got hope as funny Merlot Nov 2017 #12

Will his movies be banned now? dogman Nov 2017 #6

I was thinking the same thing. kskiska Nov 2017 #9

Yep-there was plenty of T+A on display flotsam Nov 2017 #10

Joey Heatherton, Ann-Margaret, Racquel Welch, etc. VOX Nov 2017 #11

Hope just wasn't funny. Laffy Kat Nov 2017 #13

Hope always acted bdtrppr6 Nov 2017 #16

There was a chilling line about those shows in one of Phil Ochs' songs Ken Burch Nov 2017 #17

They would televise some of his USO shows, our family would watch. Raine Nov 2017 #19