Speaker So, yes, when did you first become aware of the entertainer?
Speaker The obvious place in Lincoln, Nebraska? You do. I repeat the question. You can’t. No, it’s not necessary. I can tell you exactly when I first saw Bob Hope and and and sort of met him at Lincoln, Nebraska. I’m in ninth grade and ad says Bob Hope next Thursday Coliseum. And I thought, well, it’ll be a film. But a friend of mine and I went and we watched an hour of vaudeville and thought I knew it was a gyp, curtain closed, we started to go home and he said, wait a minute, people are going back. And we didn’t know from intermissions, went back and died at that.
Speaker Ladies and gentlemen, the star of our show, Bob Hope and my friend Lyle.
Speaker And I saw him glide out onto the stage and he said, oh, my God is.
Speaker I just gave myself gooseflesh again, remember that moment just stunned nothing between Bob Hope and me, but er, I couldn’t believe it could happen because I had just seen him in Mhere Beaucaire. And how do you get from the screen to Lincoln, Nebraska. It was a one night stand show with hope and vaudeville. He had the lovely Marilyn Maxwell, a large movie star of the time with him. We laughed at everything he said it was OK, he sort of caressed her shoulder and she said, hey, you’re not supposed to do that. And he said, read your contract. And we decided that afterwards I knew where the Stagedoor was, this huge coliseum full. I ran around the stage door. There were six steps coming down.
Speaker Bob Hope came down those steps and I said, fine, show Bob. And he said, Hey, thanks, and.
Speaker And the next day I could go to Lincoln High School and say I was spending an evening talking to Bob Hope last night and it never it will never leave me. Decades go by. I met my own show. He’s the next guest. I can’t believe it. Then I actually had to go around and look in the wings to see if Bob Hope was going to walk out again in my life. And he came out, said, hey, I’m glad to see you working. And I said, I told him his story. The fine show, Bob, they said, Hey, was that you?
Speaker Of course you remember. Now, why were you there? To see Bob Hope. Were you a fan from the movies?
Speaker Well, well, chronologically, I was in the heart of his at that age, in his radio career, but also the movies which Mr. Woody Allen and I agreed. We probably between us saw each of them 10 times on a show of mine. I got the subject around to Bob Hope that Woody was my guest and he said, you know, I want to write something about him or put something together of his film work because he was immaculately brilliant on the screen. He was in fact, I brought to one show that I had Bob on, Mr. Hope, I might say the hey, call me Bob. A London Observer review, highly intellectual publication, and the Penelope Gilli that opened her review of his latest movie with the words Bob Hope is a fine screen actor. An actor was the right word because he had to play a sentimental scene, he could do it. He could make you cry. The Seven Little Foys, such things. And he said, hey, in that great, which is something he said very, very frequently, he didn’t have an answer and he loved having met that article. The next time he was on, I brought him my beloved Bob Hope comic book from my childhood. There were Bob Hope Comics. And I don’t know what this says about him, but we were backstage. I said, I got to show you this, I just treasure this. And he said, Hey, Bob, Hope can make great hay down and put that in the car with you.
Speaker But that’s how I lost my bubble.
Speaker I mean, when Bob Hope won something, he gets it. Got it. Sorry, man.
Speaker Yeah. The radio show Tigan. What are your memories of the radio show?
Speaker Just to remember the fact that how can you get that many lines in where do they come from? And everybody listen to the Bob Hope show. And I almost got enough. I almost slugged a guy on the playground in fifth grade. We were on the playground. We were talking about things the night before. And I said Bob Hope had a great show last night. How does he get all those jokes? And then a guy said, oh, you know, Bob Hope can’t say anything funny to save his life. This is a smart ass fifth grader, can’t he? He has these people, they call them the writers, and they write all these jokes down on paper. And then he just goes up to a microphone and reads them. But I hear that he’s not funny at all in real life. Well, I didn’t know that he was, but I insisted that he of course he was. And how could you be so dumb and other tactful things I said. But I later learned the great writer Larry Gelbart, in fact, said hope is even funnier than his material in person. I got to see some wonderful ad libs a month before that incident. Yeah, no, go ahead. Oh, Lincoln again. There was a golf course there that I hope liked and he would sometimes drop down from the sky in a plane. He would add and find some Republicans and play golf. And he had been there and I didn’t know it. And another kid I didn’t like said, you know, Bob Hope, was that Hillcrest Golf Club. You’re kidding. This is before I’d ever seen him. I was here and Bob Hope was twelve blocks away, in fact. And I didn’t see him. And I said, well, tell me anything about it. And he said, well, some kid, when Bob appeared wearing a very long flowing Hawaiian shirt, said, Hey, Bob, your slip is showing.
Speaker And I hope said so is your father’s. It was two years before I got the joke.
Speaker So let’s talk about John McCain. Could he be funny without his writers? And what are some examples that you witnessed?
Speaker They were all over the place. They weren’t always jokes, but he always had a quick, snappy. One day we were in a car together and I said, oh, 30 Rock. And he said, yeah, I took a lot of blood out of there. That’s a very hopea and ad lib conversational remark. Oh, another time to prove the guy in the fifth grade was wrong about his ad lib ability. Backstage, Merv Griffin Show, Bob standing there with his makeup Kleenex at his neck and about to go on show hasn’t quite started. And up comes Maurice Chevalier or what was left of him at that time. And he was very ancient.
Speaker And I thought, I’m going to hear what Bob Hope and Marie Chevallier say to each other. I sort of sidled up, I believe is the verb to beside them.
Speaker And I heard, hey, Maurice, you really looking great. How do you do it? And he said, Well, you know, Bob, I no longer drink and I no longer fuq and hope, said Yousuke.
Speaker That’s the one we can’t use. What a shame. It’s like with an idea, if we had an audience here, you know, it’s a pity poor would be good.
Speaker But let’s keep going and bringing in a decent shot.
Speaker OK, well, it doesn’t really work. It’s just I haven’t I didn’t drink coffee before. OK, remind me to come in. A wristwatch is the key word. OK, ok. OK, good. We have to reshoot because my shirt was taken. I don’t think so. Oh better now Bob.
Speaker Hope this watch. OK I guess.
Speaker Thanks for the memory. Almost didn’t happen for some reason. I remember the details now but he said no, wait a minute, I’ll save it.
Speaker OK, good. All right, let’s go. You can come any time.
Speaker The secret word is wristwatch.
Speaker For some reason, we were in a car together and he said, hey, Jack, what time is it?
Speaker And I thought I told him and I said, Did you forget your watch? And he said, I can’t wear a watch ever too confining. That’s interesting, isn’t it? What does that say to you? I don’t know exactly, but I’m sure a psychiatrist could get something out of that.
Speaker He went too confining and kind of shattered. It’s a moment I’ll never forget. I don’t know what it meant exactly. Hope. Who needs to know what time it is?
Speaker All the time. But there’s always somebody there I going to tell him.
Speaker So let’s go back to Lincoln. What was your favorite movie? Hope line. Movie was your favorite? Oh, well, I don’t know.
Speaker For some reason, I like the road to Morocco, particularly the song that they sing when they’re on the camels. And it is but it isn’t so much the song as one of the hope lines. And I hope the writer who wrote it got a raise. Suddenly we cut to the Arabian Desert by magic there in the desert on camels. I think, Krosby says, Where were you anyway?
Speaker Hope says this is where they empty all the old hourglasses who it’s got to be.
Speaker Gelbart. I don’t think any other comic mind would have thought of that except Woody.
Speaker That’s great.
Speaker Now, you spent a lot of time with him. You had him on your show a lot. Do you feel you saw the real Bob Hope? And if so, who was that guy? Say the last sentence again. Yeah, who was that guy? Who was the real Bob Hope?
Speaker Oh, that’s a very good, very good cue. I congratulate you. He was on my show a number of times. He very fond of me almost were. Quite surprisingly, he’d go on Carson and say he just came from the dentist or Johnny Anchin dentist or something. And he’d say, yeah, I have I got a Dick Cavett coming down here. And on another show he would mention me and I woke up one morning. And so I think it’s Boing Boing, one of his worst movies probably. And he said, hey, the setting is a TV studio crew and whatever. And he says, hey, why don’t you guys go over and help Dick Cavett at ABC? Clearly an ad lib. And one day I turned it on Dave Letterman hope sitting there and I by sheer chance, turned it on at the instant that he said to Dave, hey, I’m taking Dick Cavett to the Army Navy game on Friday. I didn’t know it, but he did. Oh, he was known to be cheap. His I became great friends of his long time head writer, Mort Lokman, and he said the writers room will have a pizza delivered and hopefully asked for the bill and gave it to us. When Jack Paar went out to be for the only time in his life when a Jack Benny Bob Hope show, he came back and said. Hopes were flying along, sliding door open in his bedroom and say, I got every one of these Hart, Schaffner and Mark’s jackets, for me, it was in that great Bob Hope house that I got the the seeds of a dangerous laugh when I had opened. He was talking about his house and I said, I was in your house once. You weren’t there. But I delivered some notes for you from something. And I noticed that you had a blackboard, a slate posted outside your bedroom. You use that to keep score. Well, the roar of laughter, of course, he said, hey, you know, sometimes Dolores watches your show.
Speaker Dolores, who feel that you saw the real Bob Hope or was he always on stage?
Speaker Sure.
Speaker He he you felt you were seeing the same Bob Hope? Pretty much. But to go back to something yesterday. Yeah, we all need that. There was always the question because of this dazzling personality and great skilled performer and all that stuff. Is there a real Bob Hope?
Speaker And once somebody put it to me, you know, when he goes on a talk show, you never hear anything really about him. And from Mr. Zoglin is a book about Bob Hope. We learn that Johnny Carson got sick of him. Carson, who grew up like me in Nebraska worshipping hope. But he got he resented the fact that vote would come on continually whenever he had a special that flag walk out in the middle of somebody else’s spot, do eight gags and go home. And I remember Johnny saying, I wonder what it would be like if he talked to you.
Speaker I resolved to find out I had him on the PBS show and I wouldn’t let him joke. And this show is kind of historic in some people’s minds. I still hear about it because they say the only time I ever saw him talk, you made him talk. I would say that’s little scar that’s very rarely visible. What would you. He had no gag for that. And he said, oh, yeah, that’s from some kids were throwing rocks at my dog when I was a kid and I got in a fight with him. And that’s how I got that. And I realized, wait a minute, perhaps for the first time in television, Bob Hope is talking. I’ll get it for you. You have it. And I still get complimented on having made him speak like a person and give people the idea that maybe there is somebody under all that dazzle but you never saw or rarely saw.
Speaker Yeah, it’s the only time car. Well, on the flight to the Army Navy game that I learned on the Letterman show, we spoke and it would always still hit me that I was seeing Bob Hope talking.
Speaker He said, I like to be on a plane like this because there’s a bathroom nearby. And, you know, that gets important as you get older, believe me. And I waited for the joke.
Speaker Who he could talk, stop this hearing aid may have a failing battery, are you hearing it? That’s I said I heard.
Speaker Should I do that bit again? You know, I mean, we doing it that you want to check it two times.
Speaker I’ve taken it out. Now, you may have to talk to the guy he just turned out to be.
Speaker It’s a feedback.
Speaker It’s feedback. Oh, wait. You know what? I have a device.
Speaker But both Mr. Allen and I on our left pants pocket, I have a thing that turns it up and down.
Speaker I OK, if we’re at a same dinner table, you see us both doing that. Let me bring them in.
Speaker How about no. How about. Yeah. How about I mean I’m out here right now.
Speaker Do you think that did it. I just that was you know, that piece I brought it down to, you know, that’s the only time I did it I’m pretty sure. Yes. Yes. Let’s try if you’re comfortable with it when you do that whole thing again. No, I mean, I think it’s we were two very slight.
Speaker Yeah. That’s all I heard. They’ll think it’s they’ll think it’s their doorbell or something. But I’m willing to do anything you want, as you know, that will be back if I ever denied you anything.
Speaker Know, you once said to me we were talking about how we did in the Watergate and Vietnam time. And you said to me that one of the things you admire most about him was his monologues. You thought his monologues were fantastic. So talk about yes, his monologues were so great.
Speaker Apparently, Bob Hope was one of the great, great editors of material. And the amount of stuff he threw out for a single TV show would be more than most comedians used in their whole career. And he was very selective and could improve a line. And it’s a rare writer who will admit that this guy he gave the joke to would improve it by adding a shorter word or and and also something that made the rhythm of the line perfectly. Oh, I got to tell you this. I was doing something at NBC Burbank, and somebody said, you know, Bob Hope’s taping around. So I was around the corner immediately and into the huge studio. And there was hope about to do his monologue and doing a tap step before he went on. He taught dancing early part of his career, love dancing. And he’s doing a step down thanks to the memory works out.
Speaker And he did as funny a monologue as I’ve ever heard, I’m among those who unfortunately agree that most of his television career was junk, but the monologues were genius.
Speaker And here he was doing a monologue and maybe seven minutes in, which is a lot of jokes with hope. There was a strange sound and they realized they had to stop and do it over.
Speaker He was livid.
Speaker I’ve never seen a man turn into a bear quite so, quite so quickly as he did.
Speaker And he didn’t do any jokes about doing it over there.
Speaker He went back, came out. Having said, you’re going to have to help me to the audience. Did the identical monologue. And at the end of the first joke, he did a funny little look that only the studio audience got and it wouldn’t bother the people at home. And it got twice to laugh at Guy before. And he was such a genius at this that there is little signals to the audience. Like, I know you’ve heard this one, but without saying it, it was triumphant. I don’t know what it’s a lesson in. But he was standing by junk. I mean, it seemed the writing level of his sketch comedy and stuff. And I got to be in one of his sketches once another dream come true. And one of those shows was not up to the genius of his monologue. I love the fact that whenever hope came on in a new costume as a pirate or as a baseball player or a woman in vaudeville with an elaborate wig or whatever, he wouldn’t just make an entrance and get the laugh. He would make the entrance and turn 360 degrees, showing off his look, which extended the laugh. And it was that he was a bit of a genius.
Speaker So let’s talk about that. Is genius timing? Is it delivery? What makes a genius?
Speaker What is it about is I don’t know what the elements you’d have to include, but one of them would be his fabulous diction. He I don’t remember his ever blowing a word in a monologue at least once. I saw him do it and he got a big laugh about it, but he virtually never everybody blows a line and has to do it over or do a Johnny Carson savor that. His diction is perfect. His speech is perfect for a guy who was born in England. Yeah, I laughed when I found out I could never be queen. But, you know, he he had a charisma when he spoke the tone of that voice, which is not matched by any other comic that I know of. As with Groucho, after as the years went by, the very sound of his voice started to make you laugh no matter what he was saying. Anything Groucho said, Groucho said, I can’t insult anybody anymore.
Speaker I try to because I don’t like them, but they just laugh and say, Oh, that’s Groucho hophead. The same thing. He could be mean, I’m told, to employees.
Speaker And I never wanted to hear that. There’s never been in the aforementioned Richard Zoglin book. There’s never been. A success gigantism as hopes in every media vaudeville theater brought Broadway musicals, radio, television, movies, he went zip to the top and every one of them and as and took a lot of loot out of it, I’m sure. But I don’t remember how many years ago it was. I was working for Jack Paar and an article came out saying Bob Hope is the richest man in Hollywood. He has eight hundred million dollars. This was in the 60s and he panicked. I talked to his writers. They said he went into a funk. He was and he couldn’t sleep. He said they’ll never laugh at me again. Nobody likes anybody who has a hundred million dollars. And he claimed that the truth was that he only had 400 million humorously later. But at the time he thought his career was over. Then Mort Lokman, his head writer, said, Bob, do jokes about it. You got to get this out of your head. So he would come out and say, you can’t have relatives anymore. They cut open all my mattresses trying to find it the loot, and he survived it. But he was said to be genuinely scared that Bob Hope was a name that was going to fade.
Speaker Imagine you said once that he was a patriot who made a very bad choice in terms of supporting the war in Vietnam. Talk about that.
Speaker Yeah, I was sorry.
Speaker Someone said, you know, the problem with Bob Hope is he stayed on too long and he did.
Speaker The quality of the TV was declining. The ratings were. But he was born in. But he was a dyed in the wool American in the extremist patriotic sense and in his case in a way that for the first time made him enemies. Sort of halved his audience now I can remember before Vietnam and all the things he supported that did have that effect on his career and his life, his saying, you know, if you do a joke about one side, you got to do one about the other side. Otherwise you’re going to alienate half your audience. Well, he alienated a huge part of its audience. And I remember a show I did with John Kerry just back from Vietnam, and he said to me, the stunning line, Bob Hope was booed at Danang by the soldiers who did not like the war he was so fond of. He liked every president or somebody wrote he he liked the name to all the presidents that gave him medals and he loved being around them. And then there was the line he skipped Jimmy Carter. But, you know, Kennedy gave him a huge medal and a hugely important medal. They all did. And I said to Mr. Lockman of head writer fame, who does Bob really like? And he said, Bob likes anybody who’s a senator, a successful actor, governor, a sports star, a movie star, anybody who’s big and famous. I remember somebody saying there’s probably never been a comedian who had the vast access and influence in other worlds than comedy than hope. I said like quote and he said, the Vatican, other countries just he has power in every direction.
Speaker The Vatican, his wife was a Catholic and.
Speaker In a sense, you are to have sort of have to be, I guess, because they believe in forgiveness. But Marilyn Maxwell, the movie star that he brought with him to Lincoln and made many movies, which was also known as the other Mrs. Bob Hope and Delores deserved some kind of medal for his Olympic philandering. And she was said to have said once I could I could stand it because I always felt I was prettier than they were.
Speaker She should get a gold medal for that. But she stuck with him. And a bizarre incident. Groucho’s son, Arthur Marx, wrote a book about Bob Hope’s girlfriends and the hope and Groucho remained friends. It’s a strange part of his life. And I asked him if he’d read a new book that I had about him that had just come out. And he was actually I can’t help putting this. And he was letting me out of a car in front of my apartment in New York. We’d been somewhere. I said, you know that new book about you? And he said, yeah, I’m not going to plug that he’s got in there. I’m not going to mention it. I know the guy. He used to work for me, but I’m not going to mention any places. We’re sit in the back seat. He places our wrist. Let’s say this. We were sitting in the back seat and he put his hand on my arm and he said, you know, can you believe that guy had stuff in there about Marilyn Maxwell? What if Dolores picked that book up? And I thought Delores has known for 100 years. But it was a strange moment, like the watch being confining.
Speaker Let’s talk about what does it say? Oh, that’s OK. OK, I’m fine.
Speaker Say about Bob Hope and that he spent so much of his time entertaining troops. And what do you think he did for those men that watched him inside?
Speaker You wouldn’t dare state I’m sorry. Even today, anybody who heard any one hint at the idea that Bob Hope could have anything criticize a bill about entertaining the troops. All you need to do is the shots of the soldiers reacting to see what he did for them. He risked his life. There was sniper fire, one of them. And I love him so that it’s hard to have to say. He also made a lot of money out of it. And there has been some objective criticism of the degree to which he made tons of money off of war and soldiers. But you can’t blame him. He loved America because it made him rich. Everything good happened to him. And those soldier things were were another thing for him. He loved the big audience. He had to have it. And I walked out in front of a soldier audience once and I felt like Bob Hope, it was at Killeen, Texas, Army Base. And it was the only time in my life and I was just barely known in television. And it felt like a strong wind hit your face and pushed you backwards.
Speaker The applause from a couple thousand soldiers and what hope felt like. It must have been exhilarating. And they always brought a beautiful star lady with him to say, I want you guys to see what you’re fighting for. And he’d roar. But there was some criticism at the time of his profits from those I history will have to decide what criticism is valid.
Speaker But yes, he hurt his career. He couldn’t believe that anybody would be in an audience who didn’t like him. And the war caused that to happen. And his his idea that you do a joke for the right and a joke for the left that seem to have been forgotten. And it was too bad.
Speaker It was the last years of his career were puzzling to him. He couldn’t figure out what was going wrong and he just was too old, frankly, to keep going and live to 100, I think.
Speaker Yeah, you used to get together because I was going to make sure that we could go with that.
Speaker Yes.
Speaker And thanks.
Speaker Have we done enough on Marilyn Maxwell?
Speaker Yes, in the Cornhusker Hote that after that show in Lincoln I went to the Cornhusker Hotel knowing that’s where a huge hotel and I found out what his floor was. And I went to it and the door was ajar and I could see him in his room and her too. And I thought, didn’t she have her own room for a young boy?
Speaker Yeah.
Speaker You take your glasses, you read the contract, go. Got a lot of these. We did. Your slip is showing. Yeah. That’s usable, I should think, because the dummies won’t get it and children won’t get it.
Speaker Oh, let me put this in before I forget it, and then you can bring me back.
Speaker Sure. Take your glasses off, please. Thank you.
Speaker Like Marlon Brando, Bob Hope had a gift for language, original phrases. I wish I could think of a bunch of them, but I I always noted them he would let’s see. What was the winner? Give me a moment to.
Speaker Something here reminded me of it.
Speaker Oh, he had a wonderful comic, witty gift for language, fresh phraseology, lack of cliches. And I saw him once and I said, are you being ever going to work again? And at that time, there was a thought of doing the very, very, very last road picture. And I said, are you going to do it soon? And he said, yeah, we’re we’re looking for something that’s downhill for being wonderful for it. If they used to kid each other about their age and there were a lot of those once I said, do you think any way your life? I said to him on one of the shows we’ve done once you can you think of any way, anything you’ve missed in life. And he said, yeah, well, you know, I never got to read a lot of great books, but and he was self-conscious about that.
Speaker But he said, I’ve had pretty much everything else work. And then he just said, you know, he said, you know, Dick, I don’t know how my life could have gone any better.
Speaker How many of us can say that with total conviction nicknames for people? I don’t not that I know of.
Speaker OK, do you know that Richard was just wondering. I just Gilbarco used to talk about how he had he he had a nickname for me. You called him, you know, whenever something like that. I thought that was George Bush and that’s OK.
Speaker Well, the nickname type thing. Oh, I got to finally confirm. I went to confirm confirm Sharra. One show popped into my head. The filthy jokes that people when I was a kid would say Bob Hope got away with on the air or got cut off the air for it never happened. And there was one famous one about short skirts. You can use your imagination of what some dirty mind would think up as something Bob Hope allegedly said. And he said, you know, I hear that. I’ve heard that all my life. That would never happen. But we used to put a few dirty jokes in the rehearsal to protect the lesser dirty jokes that we ought to get past the censor. And he said, yeah, we’d see the censor coming down the hall, say, here comes old dirty mind, but. I don’t know that anybody was ever cut off the air, but they were always legends of this when I was a kid and Bob Hope was one of the favorite fictional ones of them.
Speaker Yeah. Let’s talk about one thing. A lot of young people today don’t know who Bob Hope is at all. How does that make you feel that there’s a whole generation that doesn’t know who he is? And what do you think is important for that generation to know about Bob Hope?
Speaker It’s this strange feeling that you have to encounter within the past two years. I was asked by one person who were the Marx Brothers and who was Johnny Carson. That one floored me. Time goes by, doesn’t it? And Bob Hope. Bob Hope means nothing to vast numbers of the young. Woody and I were complaining once that the young don’t seem to have any interest in anything before their birth, and he said, Cavett, you know, you and I knew Benchley and Kaufman and Thurber and all the great comedy writers, but they were ahead of our time. But we knew them today. They don’t know anything ahead of their time. And the idea that those two sharp, perfect names for a star monosyllables, Bob Hope, could fade from memory is sad.
Speaker I can’t stand it.
Speaker You know about Bob. What do you want them to know about why?
Speaker Well, for the for the people who for whom Bob Hope doesn’t exist and is not even a familiar name, they missed decades of great work in all the media. He went to the very zenith of every medium and all that great work, all that great acting, that great comic acting, the comic acting in those films. The road pictures, as they’re affectionately known, would be have to be featured in any class on great, great screen comedy. Hard to put your finger on exactly what made him great. Crosby was funny too, and had a gift for comedy, but hope was better and it’s just hard to figure out it’s the sharp delivery. Every comedian gets tired of hearing about timing. Nobody really knows what it is like as Jack Benny once. And he said, I don’t know what they’re talking about. I say the line when I think I should say it and I hope would agree. If you think about timing and going one, two, three, while you’re performing, you’re going to roll up into a ball. But he had it. He was born with it. He never missed it. He never missed timed a joke. Can we drop the word timing now?
Speaker Do you want to see to something else? I want to get you on your show. Yeah. Let me check and see if anything that turns you on. Yeah.
Speaker Gift for language. How life could have gone better. Oh, we do this one as a single. Yes, I have a favorite moment from one of my shows, I think he was the. I have a favorite moment sitting there with Bob Hope, still not believing it.
Speaker That’s kind of. Yeah. What happened is a side to this side. Well, that’s OK.
Speaker I had one across from my studio famously. You hear it all the time. Helen Hayes would be doing it. How could I. How much? How do I love the right.
Speaker OK, ok. Oh yeah.
Speaker In the show in which I’ve got Bob Hope to talk like a person, not a comedian, and in which he said, I don’t know how my life could have gone any better, had a few more minutes came to the end and I was moved to say one person in the history of this world got to be Bob Hope.
Speaker And you’re that lucky man. And both he and I teared up a little. I don’t know if it shows on the screen, but he was very moved by that.
Speaker Glad it got to him one quickly.
Speaker Yeah, there might be a gym to close with or reopen with. You know, he went deaf. Yes, near the end, Bob Costas did two 1/2 hours with him and they couldn’t air either one of them and they tried putting a speaker back here.
Speaker And it’s still you know, it’s embarrassing, if you like. What was that great hotel you stayed in in Chicago that you loved? And he’d say chocolate.
Speaker I mean, he didn’t know what was very, very sad. Delores in favor of somebody denied his mattress.
Speaker I know what that means.
Speaker Everyone else’s success for. Oh, the unfortunate remark that he made about not being in the draft.
Speaker Oh, you know that when his life began to go somewhat badly for the first time in his life and the war botched his career in many ways, and he was mystified by it. And he was draft qualified when World War Two came along and he didn’t go.
Speaker And somebody said he said the only unfortunate thing his great comic instinct ever allowed him to say when somebody said you didn’t go to the war and he said, you know, there’s a war going on in the war, a guy could get hurt and it didn’t play very well. Maybe his only misjudgment about a piece of material, but he didn’t.
Speaker And so it didn’t solve anything. And I’ll just do this one more time in case there’s a jam. Thanks. And Maryland on 30 Rock later in. And I talk.
Speaker Was that clear about why Johnny got fed up with him and brought him from the show?
Speaker Yeah. Gelberg I think we’ve got everything the slip is showing the other man. How’s that for originality.
Speaker Oh somebody said, well Bob Hope’s all right.
Speaker One of the great one of the great artifacts of the show World of the Century is Bob Hope’s fabulous walk. I stood in front of mirrors and tried to walk like Bob Hope. The the chest is out always. Sometimes the hands or arms, usually at his side, maybe the fingers pointing backwards and his torso remained stationary as the legs let him glide forward. You can see it on any time he enters on the Oscars or he had the Oscar lying of all time. Hope somebody got to raise for it. Hey, here it is. Oscar night, or as it’s known in my house, Passover.
