Bob Hope dies at age 100.

awwwwwwww thats sad.

He's on the Road To Wherever. Hope he meets up with Dotty and Bing. They made me laugh a lot when I was a kid. Thankyou.

I had a nice bit of Bob Hope last night. I got it from me mate 'Wicko' in the Holloway Road Actually Bob Hope was very right wing and extremly racist throughout his life. He apprared on a 'Royal Variety' show that I was working on many years ago and was utterly rude to all and sundry during rehearsals. He was funny in those 'Road' movies sure. But I wonder what he was really like when the laughter stopped. Ralph

I remember watching Paleface when I was a kid - the scene where he walks through the deserted streets looking for a gunman who has threatened to kill him and he's trying to remember all the advice ("he walks with a limp, so shoot to the East . . .") - I don't think I'd ever laughed at a movie so hard up to that point . . .

Jay, are you drunk?

Heh heh heh heh heh heh

Yes, the thing about politics is a bit of a problem. I found in the end that you have to separate the art from the person who produced it. Hence, I like and admire the poetry of Eliot and Pound, but disagree with their politics. As to Bob, whatever he was like, he made me laugh, and that's important, and I thank him for it. R.I.P.

Tricky Skeeter. Can we separate comedians like Jim Davidson, Bernard Manning or Roy Chubby Brown from their supposed art? Likewise at the other end of the scale, Mark Thomas, Michael Moore and Jeremy Hardy? Bob Hope lived the showbiz lie I suppose. On the outside to the public a lovable quick-witted institution, but on the inside something else completely. He was a man of his generation and of a time when there were different values and that has to be taken into account. Even so I am still uncomatable with it. As I said, tricky. Ralph

Pale Ale has a lot to answer for......

What is funny Grec?

Jay's rants. She's the one person who doesn't get grief off you for it! Heh heh.

I do wish you'd stop heh'ing like that. It makes you sound like an emphysemic lorry driver.

I don't really much care what he was like 'in real life,' whatever that is. That is for his family and personal acquaintances to judge, not me. I only knew him through movies and mostly through TV. He hosted the Oscars 18 times, produced Christmas shows and other TV specials every year for decades on end, and appeared regularly on the variety shows (in the 60s) and talks shows right up to the present. He was largely apolitical in public and routinely took potshots at politicians of all pursuations. He also travelled the world to put on shows for people in military service for 6 decades. That's a lot to fit into a lifetime, even one of 100 years.

I understand the point Ralph, but I think that with Manning/Davidson, etc, their politics is part of their 'product', (to avoid using the word 'art') almost indistinguishable from it in fact; their views/political stance informs their acts. Whereas with many (if not most) that is not the case. When the two things are separate, that allows you to see them separately. So I try to do that.

Fair point.

I'm so sorry Jay, do forgive me. All I meant was, it seems out of character for you to be so scathing. I was a bit surprised.

He was a great comedian. Like Peter says, those films can still make me laugh. Yes, it sounds like he wasn't the nicest of people, but do I care whether my dentist is wonderful in his own time? No. Why do people expect comedians to be funny all the time. It's a job just like any other. I didn't agree with his politics, but with Davidson/Manning et al, the politics formed part of their act. Bob's style of comedian had nothing to do with his politics. He made us laugh and I do enjoy his films.

Oh Justyn I soooooo agree with you and thankyou for writing both your posts especially the second as it saved me doing it and mine wouldn't have been worded so good. Why o why is the same person on here always hovering and waiting to pick someones bones even in death like a big vulture waiting to pounce and of cause in his small mind he thinks he comes over so marvellous. "I FOR ONE DON'T THINK SO" its not often I get out of my pram but his sort just makes me want to vomit. Avoid his threads like the plague as a rule but because his was mixed in with others this time couldn't really miss it more's the pity...

Well... ...never mind.

Skeeter for a start having been married to a man that drunk to excess I only drink mainly water or a cup of tea but your apology is accepted. As you are new on here like I did say I don't get out of my pram very often and that which I wrote and the person I ment it for, well believe me it had been a long!! and I mean long!! time coming and I ment every word. Grec as what I wrote wasn't ment for you don't see where you come into it and as for the grief bit I would only accept it as grief if I!! chose to not because someone had tried to lay it on me, I also agree with Liana the heh heh thing you do so often now makes you sound like a stupid little boy instead of the intelligent man you sometimes come across as being. I do realize that you will probably do it all the more now just to annoy, this time just like a spoilt child. Ralph I'm lowering myself even bothering with you and not any!! amount of Pale Ale could cure what you lack and thats being kind...

Can man an intelligence be used in the same sentence?

Simple answer don't know as without having any schooling could'nt possibly put myself in the intelligence class, just pick out what I think is the best!! and learn from you lot who come and go. "Hurray for ABC is what I say because of the site and this discussion group at least when I finely go to that place in the sky I will have so much to discuss and will feel I am able to do it intelligently. Wow much better than some boring old classroom except maybe my many writing classes I went to and enjoyed...

sorry Jay, I meant can a man Funny how one letter can change the whole meaning of a post!!! Most women are intelligent & I'd definitely say you are

From today's Popbitch... Poor Bob Hope. Everyone's been waiting for him to die for years. His obituary in London's Evening Standard newspaper was written by Alexander Walker who died two weeks before him. And the one in the New York Times was written by a journalist, Vincent Canby, who died in 2000.

Hi Sabelle didn't know it was you, would like to think it was true but thanks so much for the compliment. Have been on these threads nearly all day, why do they nearly alway buss when I need to get off of them and can't, wish it was more like this at weekends which because I can't get out is such a boring time for me...

It's because they're all bored at work, Jay! Time for a bit of fun with ABC and a hob nob!

And I've chosen to waste my day off posting. Very therapeutic tho