Ohio State Fair 1974, I was on the junior fair board, I drove E.O. Stacy and Mr. Hope from airport to hotel to show for 2 days and being a general go-fer.... Mr. Hope signed the underside of his wooden stool from his dressing room as a gag and gave it to me so I would never forget him... I was taking it back to the dorm and the Ohio Highway patrol took it away from me ... years later I was walking through the state capital and in a exhibit honoring the state patrol was the stool and a sign saying Bob Hope gave it to the patrol as thanks for their service...
@@dvh695 the OHP provides the security at the stage venue... you have to have credentials for access to stage and guest trailers... I came out with the wooden stool and was trying to put it in the trunk of the fair guest car and was stopped.... told to return it to the trailer... it wasn't really mine to take, but the signature was made out to me... but evidently this trooper grabbed it and kept it and to see it years later on display... irksome.
@@willynelson9595 Do you honestly believe that no one who is presently alive was alive in the early seventies? My God, man. I have no words. And, to think----Willy Nelson (of all people) should know better.
Imagine that .Playing golf with the Presidents? Must admit my ears pricked up 06:40 when he mentioned Bing Crosby played with JFK a couple of times. I just wondered if Frank Sinatra was watching...oh dear !
Bob Hope loved what he was doing,plus he had a great memory for details--or else he made it up--and there weren't fact checkers hanging on his every word to correct him.Much better back then.
@notredamehesamighty Your comment is insightful. Not the opinion, but the choice to politicize an artist who doesn't take sides as part of his craft.. I've caught myself doing this too. Why have we as americans, of which 70% stay away from elections (75% when it rains), empower our political views in context with non-political topics? Seems connective to our wide spectrum of political acrimony and gridlock.
Watergate, Vietnam ongoing, racial divide even greater than today's, a governor shot (couldn't have happened to a nicer guy), George Carlin arrested for saying the 7 words you can't say on television on an untelevised stage, misogyny, sexism, epic racism (both at home and on the USS Kitty Hawk), homosexuality illegal in most states, bombing of Hanoi, illegal incursions into other countries, just to cherry-pick a few from 1972 - the year of this interview...Those rose-colored glases you're using to look back with need a good cleaning. I doubt most people not straight, male or white would agree with you that the 70's was a better time...The environment had fewer protections (remember making the Indian cry?), DDT was just ending its run and the cold war was still ongoing. Hope may have been a beloved entertainer, but by 1972, his WASP-Iish views were seen as out-of-touch. He did an entire special that year mocking the Womens' Rights Movement, made a lot of disparaging comments about gays and struggled to find contemporary stars to accompany him to Vietnam. I love his movie, "The Baby Photographer", and right around 1972 I probably discovered the "On the Road" movies (which as a boy, I found hilarious), but I am so tired of listening to my contemporaries "Back In The Day-ing"... I would submit that America, despite its current leadership is a far better country than it was 50 years ago - imagine if it wasn't! PS - "Aisle", not "isle".
@@swrennie If you have the Progressive view that some day, this world will be "perfect" you will have a VERY long wait. In the 20th century, because of technology, war was MUCH more deadly and WORSE than in the darkest of dark ages in the past....man's nature is no better now than it was one hundred or one thousand years ago....but the technology we have created makes man now more destructive and violent than ever before....and in THAT sense, the world WAS a safer and better place 200 years ago
I never thought Hope was funny on his TV show and specials, with his corny rapid-fire jokes written by a phalanx of writers. But on Carson and here on Cavett-off the cuff-he was funny as Hell.
For the real Bob Hope- pick up a copy of Brice Taylor's book "Thanks for the Memories" It gives dark insight to his ties to politicians and his true character.
I WILL DISECT THIS GEMINI & STATE THIS MAN,S INTELLECTUAL SKILLSET , AS OPPOSED TO TRUMP,s; THE CHALLENGES HE FACED AS A STRUGGLING YOUNG COMEDIAN HAS GIVEN HIM A WITTY URBAN INTELLIGENCE THAT HAD INCREASED HIS IQ.
I remember Jonathan Miller once said Bob Hope has become a desecrated part of the Republican Party, rather than a humorous. There was a lot of bad press. And I think it was John Carey, it was, who came on a show of Dick Cavett and said when they booed Hope at Danang it really got to him. He was to the comedy of the war what Nixon was to its negotiation and what Billy Graham was to its husky religiosity.
When Nixon came into office in 1969, the Democrats had turned Eisenhower's 300 military "advisors" in Vietnam into a gigantic 530,000 man Democrat-run army....it took the Dems 8 years to get all those 530,000 men into Vietnam...yet within 4 months, Nixon had pulled out 150,000 men....it took him 3 plus years to do it, but he got the entire 530,000 soldiers OUT and he ENDED the war...there was a cease fire, and South Vietnam controlled its country....BUT 2 years later, North Vietnam launched an invasion of the South...the South fought back, but then ran out of ammo and spare parts....they asked the USA to SELL them ammo and spare parts....the Democrat Congress passed a law FORBIDDING President Ford to SELL them ammo...South Vietnam and Cambodia were then defeated and taken over by North Vietnam, and MILLIONS of innocent people were killed... NIXON had prevented that outcome and had ended the war, but the Democrats overturned his victory and caused millions to die. Nice work!
Rodney Dangerfield would completely DESTROY Bob Hope in a head to head joke telling contest. In terms of stand up comedy, Bob Hope was not even worthy enough to tie the brilliant Rodney Dangerfields shoelaces if they both waited backstage before they are about to go on and perform one after the other. Bob Hope was an excellent actor, singer and dancer. A great entertainer in his own right. But he was simply the worst comic ever to walk into a TV studio. The troops just wanted to escape from their problems so they laughed at anything that he did just as a way of taking their minds of war. Like I said, Rodney Dangerfield would completely DESTROY Bob Hope in a head to head joke telling contest.
@@michaelhasenstein721 No im not a comedian. But YOU are clearly a lifelong fan of Bob Hope which i think is great. Say "Hi" to Bob for me when you kneel down and pray to him tonight.
Shauni, you obviously have hero worship for Dangerfield and disdain for Hope; that's fine. They were from two separate eras, different styles. I enjoyed them equally, but Hope holds a special place in my heart and a lot of now older Americans. Represents a different time in our country's history. And, he took the time to visit our troops. That was honorable.
@@artlover1477 Thats fine Bud. I dont hate Bob Hope. Im just stating facts that every American (non Black) will attest to. Dont take it personally Pal. It is what it is. Most White Americans who are familiar with both artists will agree with me. As for young Blacks, they do NOT actively watch the older white comics from the 1960's and 1970's so there is absolutely no point in asking them. They will not know what you are talking about. I mean any White American over the age of 40. (Cue the "your racist" comeback) Seriously Bud, your just a snowflake if your employ that kind of reasoning.
Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times, stuck with writing an appreciation on the same day as Canby's labored obituary (and stuck by the newspaper with the exact same vaudeville photograph as illustration) fell back on the exhausted line that Hope always played the same character, which was Bob Hope. A fitting tautology. Hope was a fool, and nearly a clown, but he was never even remotely a comedian.
Goalie Dave Yes, obviously, Hope. At least to my antenna he comes across very bitter. In that case, one could sat he comes across very two faced. I guess that is why they are called actors. Know well a woman from China. She talks much about in China the whole idea and culural mindset of two faces. They seem to be very attuned to it. The face presented in public and the other one in private. And how they are all about saving face.
Bob was brilliant, and sane, at the same time ...tough gig to pull off ...real pro
Ohio State Fair 1974, I was on the junior fair board, I drove E.O. Stacy and Mr. Hope from airport to hotel to show for 2 days and being a general go-fer.... Mr. Hope signed the underside of his wooden stool from his dressing room as a gag and gave it to me so I would never forget him... I was taking it back to the dorm and the Ohio Highway patrol took it away from me ... years later I was walking through the state capital and in a exhibit honoring the state patrol was the stool and a sign saying Bob Hope gave it to the patrol as thanks for their service...
no shitt stupid pigs lying revenuers all of them
But why did the highway patrol take a stool away from you?
@@dvh695 the OHP provides the security at the stage venue... you have to have credentials for access to stage and guest trailers... I came out with the wooden stool and was trying to put it in the trunk of the fair guest car and was stopped.... told to return it to the trailer... it wasn't really mine to take, but the signature was made out to me... but evidently this trooper grabbed it and kept it and to see it years later on display... irksome.
we need more people like him now
True
Love Bob Hope to this day.
The master of on-the-spot wit. Obviously a very complex person but definitely "one of a kind."
Great! keep more coming...love these old interviews!
Great laid back interview. I haven't seen Bob so relaxed like this before.
Hes even more relaxed now. Unlike Bing he didn't take it with him.
Hope what a GIANT.!! How can Any1 Put a thumbs down.?? Shame on U.!!
I love these videos. Show Bob as the lovely guy he was.
I was in the audience for this show. Taped at WNET Thirteen in NYC.
Sorry you weren’t in the audience. This was from the early 70’s
@@willynelson9595 Do you honestly believe that no one who is presently alive was alive in the early seventies? My God, man. I have no words. And, to think----Willy Nelson (of all people) should know better.
@@willynelson9595 70's referring to your IQ.
Thank You for posting great fun
Great stuff! Thank you for posting..
Thank you. I love Bob Hope.
:)
He is quite irreplaceable. ..
In the Book. The Rich and Super Rich, Bob Hope was way ahead of everybody else.
That's right! Shrewd business man
Boo-boom! Wow, what a quick wit Bob has. Well done, Dick, too - smooth. Thanks, cavettbiter. (subscribed)
Loved the golf jokes :)
One of Britain's best comedians: BobHope
Cary Grant was a great comic actor.
Love the callbacks ( "my schoolteacher"; "my psychiatrist") - obviously a very sharp mind.
I thought the same thing. :-)
It was a stupid question from Cavett to say a woman came to the door.
Bob seems very human in this interview. He spoke very movingly earlier about Fred McMurray.
Imagine that .Playing golf with the Presidents? Must admit my ears pricked up 06:40 when he mentioned Bing Crosby played
with JFK a couple of times. I just wondered if Frank Sinatra was watching...oh dear !
There were those who said Bob has to be completely scripted. This showed he could talk off the cuff with the best of them
What’s weird about this is Hope seems funnier in casual conversation than he does performing.
He didn’t like ad-libbing so it’s nice to see him without a script.
When I hear him being interviewed I can't help thinking of Dave Thomas.
yes! Dave Thomas of SCTV was more like Bob Hope than the real Bob Hope!
old school cleveland humor
Which end?
❤️❤️
Bob was only home 2 weeks out of the year.
6:42 Now there's a story
Bob Hope loved what he was doing,plus he had a great memory for details--or else he made it up--and there weren't fact checkers hanging on his every word to correct him.Much better back then.
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@notredamehesamighty Your comment is insightful. Not the opinion, but the choice to politicize an artist who doesn't take sides as part of his craft.. I've caught myself doing this too. Why have we as americans, of which 70% stay away from elections (75% when it rains), empower our political views in context with non-political topics? Seems connective to our wide spectrum of political acrimony and gridlock.
Nothing is ' _non-political_ '
he super smart
BOY DID I GET A WRONG NUMBER
boy did i get a wrong number
classic
5:56 "Like going to China and having his eyes almonded." Good one, Bob. 😑
nixon thought he was batman
👍🏻
Wow how refreshing.A comedian taking shots at both sides of the isle. Back whne It was America.Not this thing we have today.
Watergate, Vietnam ongoing, racial divide even greater than today's, a governor shot (couldn't have happened to a nicer guy), George Carlin arrested for saying the 7 words you can't say on television on an untelevised stage, misogyny, sexism, epic racism (both at home and on the USS Kitty Hawk), homosexuality illegal in most states, bombing of Hanoi, illegal incursions into other countries, just to cherry-pick a few from 1972 - the year of this interview...Those rose-colored glases you're using to look back with need a good cleaning. I doubt most people not straight, male or white would agree with you that the 70's was a better time...The environment had fewer protections (remember making the Indian cry?), DDT was just ending its run and the cold war was still ongoing. Hope may have been a beloved entertainer, but by 1972, his WASP-Iish views were seen as out-of-touch. He did an entire special that year mocking the Womens' Rights Movement, made a lot of disparaging comments about gays and struggled to find contemporary stars to accompany him to Vietnam. I love his movie, "The Baby Photographer", and right around 1972 I probably discovered the "On the Road" movies (which as a boy, I found hilarious), but I am so tired of listening to my contemporaries "Back In The Day-ing"...
I would submit that America, despite its current leadership is a far better country than it was 50 years ago - imagine if it wasn't!
PS - "Aisle", not "isle".
@@swrennie If you have the Progressive view that some day, this world will be "perfect" you will have a VERY long wait. In the 20th century, because of technology, war was MUCH more deadly and WORSE than in the darkest of dark ages in the past....man's nature is no better now than it was one hundred or one thousand years ago....but the technology we have created makes man now more destructive and violent than ever before....and in THAT sense, the world WAS a safer and better place 200 years ago
HEY GRAMPS.....☺️YOU LOOK JUST LIKE MY GRANNNNY J
Hope is / was a genius
He looks 55-59. Turns out he was 69 yo.
I never thought Hope was funny on his TV show and specials, with his corny rapid-fire jokes written by a phalanx of writers. But on Carson and here on Cavett-off the cuff-he was funny as Hell.
Kevin Spacey! The only man to play Hope in a movie!
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For the real Bob Hope- pick up a copy of Brice Taylor's book "Thanks for the Memories" It gives dark insight to his ties to politicians and his true character.
BlackMarket Lightbulbs
Came out after he was dead.
So much for insight.
@@daviddalton9214 Hope died in 2003. The book came out in 1999
best handler for merilyn
And also for Brice Taylor
@iklein8661 did you say hi to the muppets? Bob Hope, one of the greatest Americans... RIP
Naturalized Americans...
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He was funnier here than he ever was onstage.
I WILL DISECT THIS GEMINI & STATE THIS MAN,S INTELLECTUAL SKILLSET , AS OPPOSED TO TRUMP,s; THE CHALLENGES HE FACED AS A STRUGGLING YOUNG COMEDIAN HAS GIVEN HIM A WITTY URBAN INTELLIGENCE THAT HAD INCREASED HIS IQ.
Jack Benny was much funnier and Bob Monkhouse even better.
Bob Monkhouse was another very unique individual
@@hoofie2002
You're dead right. Great comedian and very brave bloke.
@@hoofie2002 Hope was one of Monkhouse's idols. He listened to his radio shows on short wave in the 1940s and took his style some what.
I remember Jonathan Miller once said Bob Hope has become a desecrated part of the Republican Party, rather than a humorous. There was a lot of bad press. And I think it was John Carey, it was, who came on a show of Dick Cavett and said when they booed Hope at Danang it really got to him. He was to the comedy of the war what Nixon was to its negotiation and what Billy Graham was to its husky religiosity.
When Nixon came into office in 1969, the Democrats had turned Eisenhower's 300 military "advisors" in Vietnam into a gigantic 530,000 man Democrat-run army....it took the Dems 8 years to get all those 530,000 men into Vietnam...yet within 4 months, Nixon had pulled out 150,000 men....it took him 3 plus years to do it, but he got the entire 530,000 soldiers OUT and he ENDED the war...there was a cease fire, and South Vietnam controlled its country....BUT 2 years later, North Vietnam launched an invasion of the South...the South fought back, but then ran out of ammo and spare parts....they asked the USA to SELL them ammo and spare parts....the Democrat Congress passed a law FORBIDDING President Ford to SELL them ammo...South Vietnam and Cambodia were then defeated and taken over by North Vietnam, and MILLIONS of innocent people were killed... NIXON had prevented that outcome and had ended the war, but the Democrats overturned his victory and caused millions to die. Nice work!
Hope was great. Notice how Cavett can't stop talking about himself?
Johnny Carson couldn't stand Bob Hope
Cavett was such an awkward host and poor interviewer, it's extraordinary he lasted so long on TV
Who's better? He brings out the natural side of his guests. Which is why he is so GOOD.
Dick was so awkward that it made his guests shine and feel more comfortable.... that was the magic of his style!
I have read some horrible things about Bob Hope. Not sure if any is true, but disturbing if even some of it is.
Check out Bing Crosby. He makes Bob Hope look like Jesus in comparison.
Hope was banging *everything* in sight. The whole, ' _my wife Dolores_ ' thing was little more than window-dressing
Hope is ok, but I honestly don’t see why he was popular.
Rob supported the military
YOU MUST BE A YOUNGSTER, if you don't know why Bob Hope Was that Popular, Did you Ever Hear of Comedy ??
He didn't swear and talk about sex, that confused you.
Rodney Dangerfield would completely DESTROY Bob Hope in a head to head joke telling contest.
In terms of stand up comedy, Bob Hope was not even worthy enough to tie the brilliant
Rodney Dangerfields shoelaces if they both waited backstage before they are about to go on and perform one after the other.
Bob Hope was an excellent actor, singer and dancer.
A great entertainer in his own right.
But he was simply the worst comic ever to walk into a TV studio.
The troops just wanted to escape from their problems so they laughed at anything that he did just as a way of taking their minds of war.
Like I said,
Rodney Dangerfield would completely DESTROY Bob Hope in a head to head joke telling contest.
Hahahahahahahaha. Are you a comedian?
@@michaelhasenstein721
No im not a comedian.
But YOU are clearly a lifelong fan of
Bob Hope which i think is great.
Say "Hi" to Bob for me when you kneel down and pray to him tonight.
Shauni, you obviously have hero worship for Dangerfield and disdain for Hope; that's fine.
They were from two separate eras, different styles.
I enjoyed them equally, but Hope holds a special place in my heart and a lot of now older Americans. Represents a different time in our country's history. And, he took the time to visit our troops. That was honorable.
@@artlover1477
Thats fine Bud.
I dont hate Bob Hope.
Im just stating facts that every American (non Black) will attest to.
Dont take it personally Pal.
It is what it is.
Most White Americans who are familiar with both artists will agree with me.
As for young Blacks, they do NOT actively watch the older white comics from the 1960's and 1970's so there is absolutely no point in asking them.
They will not know what you are talking about.
I mean any White American over the age of 40.
(Cue the "your racist" comeback)
Seriously Bud, your just a snowflake if your employ that kind of reasoning.
Golf is boring 😴
Never understood Bob Hope's appeal. He just isn't funny. He was always yucking it up, but never made me laugh.
He didn't swear and tell sleazy jokes, that confuses you.
Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times, stuck with writing an appreciation on the same day as Canby's labored obituary (and stuck by the newspaper with the exact same vaudeville photograph as illustration) fell back on the exhausted line that Hope always played the same character, which was Bob Hope. A fitting tautology. Hope was a fool, and nearly a clown, but he was never even remotely a comedian.
For some reason he seemed like such a bitter individual.
I assume you mean Hope and I assume you are referencing something other than this clip where he seems his old genial self.
Goalie Dave Yes, obviously, Hope. At least to my antenna he comes across very bitter. In that case, one could sat he comes across very two faced. I guess that is why they are called actors.
Know well a woman from China. She talks much about in China the whole idea and culural mindset of two faces. They seem to be very attuned to it. The face presented in public and the other one in private. And how they are all about saving face.
T Hyslop nice way to judge someone you never met.
T Hyslop he seemed to have a legitimate grievance.
T Hyslop there are two people in the interview so it actually isn't obvious who you're talking about.