[High Praise! to Neatorama]
On a personal note, I’ve always been a fan of Bob Hope’s work, and I watched a lot of his variety show specials on TV during the 70’s. I remember one from the late 80’s where he seemed a little wobbly in his delivery, though, but I didn’t think too much of it.
My most vivid memory of his later career was a clip of him entertaining the troops during the Gulf War, somewhere around 1990 or 91. It was pretty much his standard material at first, but then his one-liners started getting edgier than anything I’d ever heard him say on network TV. The troops loved it, of course.
The man always knew how to work his audience. He was a gift to us all.
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This link has a lot of old time radio shows. There’s an episode of Bob Hope every so often. Just scroll down to find one or two.
Old Time Comedy Radio by BestFreeAudiobook.com
https://itun.es/us/R1_Xq.c
They are podcasts.
That Jack Benny is pretty funny too.
People around here probably think I’m 100 years old.
I promise I only sound like an old crank when I write.