And I've given him every chance in the world. SOME of it's funny, to be sure, but most of it isn't. And I wish he was b
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bushrod56 — 19 years ago(April 25, 2006 10:30 PM)
And I've given him every chance in the world. SOME of it's funny, to be sure, but most of it isn't. And I wish he was because the guy had a truly phenomenal showbiz career: Vaudville, Radio, Films, Television. He must have appeared with every old Hollywood actor at one time or another. Played golf with Presidents, too. But OH BROTHER how lame most of his 'jokes' are. I try to re-evaluate him every so often- you know, thinking maybe it's me, something I missed or am just not perceiving. Nope. Sometimes I think he just trys too hard, but mainly it's just the writing. The Road films are best, mainly because of his teaming with Bing (who I think IS funny). But mostly I just watch him and think -"Did people really at one time LAUGH at this stuff? Man, America sure HAS changed." OK, you can now commence with the hate e-mails.
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depeche_girl — 19 years ago(May 04, 2006 03:31 AM)
I think he was funny.
Only immature young people like you can't handle this kind of humour.
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cabaretwoman — 19 years ago(July 09, 2006 06:23 PM)
I never thought he was the least bit funny either. In fact, I seem to remember him doing stand-routines where his audiences did not laugh at all, but merely applauded, probably out of politeness.
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tseybert — 11 years ago(October 18, 2014 02:00 PM)
This is key, I think.
I used to think he wasn't very funny. I was a kid in the 1970s and I would see him on specials and2000 on talk shows and I would wince a lot. Also, when I would see his movies on TV, it would be his later films, which - as far as I can tell - were marketed to kids when they went to TV. The only one I specifically remember is "The Seven Little Foys," which I didn't like too well.
But then, as a teen, I discovered The Road to Morocco, and I still think that's one of the funniest movies of the 1940s. Some of the rest of the Road movies are almost as good.
As I've gotten a little older, I've given his older movies more of a chance and an awful lot of them are pretty damn funny. Like My Favorite Spy or The Paleface or Sorrowful Jones or Here Come the Girls.
Bob Hope was a riot in the 1940s and he still made quite a few good movies in the early 1950s. After that try to be polite!
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acking3 — 19 years ago(July 19, 2006 01:55 PM)
I think It's harder to get laughs when you work "clean", and Bob Hope always did that. He was never offensive, or mean sprited that I can recall. His timing and delivery was unique, and his jokes were usually timely to the news of the day, (much like Johnny Carson). A lot of the material he had to use on primetime TV audiences was a bit cornball, but thats understandable. I think he WAS funny in a wholesome kind of way.
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dreamgrl — 19 years ago(July 21, 2006 09:52 PM)
Keep in mind that no one can make a blanket statement "He/she IS not funny" about any actor or comedian. Because humor - even more than beauty - is in the eye of the beholder. I just happened to read an old salon.com article today with the same premise: Bob Hope wasn't ever funny, everyone who ever said so was either lying or being polite, blah blah blah. I was fairly annoyed because there wasn't a single caveat. Not even a 'times have changed' nugget. Well, I am a twenty-five year old woman who grew up with Bob Hope movies and I can say that I find most of them genuinely funny most of the time. There's a lot of humor in the films that doesn't fit today's styles, or was current and topical at the time - and so is now out-dated - but I always enjoy them. The fact is, that Bob Hope's style of humor probably doesn't su1908it your taste. Which is perfectly okay. I personally don't like Benny Hill or Rodney Dangerfield because of their styles. And, as Stuart Smalley would say - that's okay. Just don't anybody be mean and actually bash my Bob.
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GalenSteele-1 — 18 years ago(May 29, 2007 07:00 AM)
He was funny. Most of his jokes were jokes of the period. Unless you either lived then or know history his jokes would fly over ones head. In his later life some of his jokes were "dry", but when you look at his history and what he did for our country and our servicemen/women, he is the true meaning of priceless. Happy Birthday Bob, I know you are still with us. P.S. missed you in Viet-Nam but saw you eleven years later at the Air Force Academy with Barbara Mandrell, Barry Gibbs and Diana Ross.