Bob Hope

He's forgotten because he looks like Justin Timberlake's great grandfather.

Because Tom Hanks is doing specials now.

Because he was never funny.

All of us will be forgotten, but never Whitney.

I never thought he was funny either. Never understood why people fawned over him so much either.

Have I been forgotten?

I did specials too....from the holy land!

Thanks for the memory....

His humor was unfunny because it was sneering, dismissive, and mean-spirited. And of course misogynistic, racist, and covertly menacing. He appeared onstage with a golf club which he used as a (potential) weapon. He was a hard right-winger in the 60s, very pro-Vietnam and anti-civil rights. A hideous man.

He made three terrible films with Lucy

There's a great biography called "HOPE". Basically, Hope rode the wave of the WWII generation and then in the late 60s, like Sinatra and others, openly looked down on the Baby Boomers. Watching his television specials and his movies now is often painful. That style is just far out.

He lives on, to some degree, in Woody Allen's 70s-film-era wholesale theft of comic delivery.

His early films and a number of the road films are pretty funny with his uncanny gift of delivery. But he entirely depended on his writers and he was too faithful to them. As they all aged the jokes became groaners.

He though like Fred Astaire pretty much was a very important part of American 20th Century culture. You can't speak about it without them. A star from vaudeville to Broadway to Hollywood to TV.

Not to dismiss this thread, but you might find one from this fall interesting.

Except for Audrey Hepburn and Monroe everyone is forgotten. Even the legends of Elvis and James Dean are receding into distant memory.

R8 for the win.

Hope was a well-known lech. The line among starlets, showgirls, models and wannabes was make sure you were never alone with him.

Another old fart , who apparently Liked to grab'em by the P***y .

r12, reasonable to take the long view, he was a cultural figure, but by the 60s he was way past his freshness date and his face had congealed into a mask of resentment and hate, a rictus of spoiled entitlement. Many tours of Vietnam with the USO, doing stale comedy gags before captive audiences of boys about to be fed into the meat grinder of a senseless war. He was reprehensible.

I never liked him or his stale jokes.

Pretty sure this is the most memorable thing Bob Hope did, and his worst. His last self-casting role in a commercial for Big Kmart.

Who?

His humor didn't age well. It came to be known that he was a womanizer. Like his comic persona, he was a cheapskate.

Bob Hope took Brooke Shields virginity, with a forcefulness. That is why she lost the love of Michael Jackson. Now it can be told.

He sure played up his long term marriage to his elder fans like he was Mr. Wholesome.

The Road to Oblivion

Ask the Staten Island Ferry.

Lives on in Quagmire.

Forgotten by whom? Not me! His '30's and '40's films are hilarious.

He was truly a dirty old man...the younger, the better. Tried watching his utube academy awards hosting...bitter, cynical, not funny. Plus he was a right wing tool....his Golden Girls episode is the worst.

When I was a kid he became my hero when he pushed Dorothy Lamour at the bad guys and ran the other way..

He was Rose Nylund’s father.

His TV presence was primarily through rarely repeated awards shows and "specials," so they have disappeared. Plus, stand-up becomes dated quickly and sketch comedy rarely hold up. Plus, his shows from the 80s really suck.

With respect to film, his best work is primarily in black and white, which is a turnoff to young people.

99.5% of people are forgotten sometime. Even Lucy is fading from public memory.

Jack Benny was/is 100x the legend that Bob Hope was. It seems like Hope's humor was secondhand from Jack.

R31 already faded from my memory

Judy Garland does not/will not fade. In the words for Frank Sinatra: "The rest of us will be forgotten. Not Judy."

Hope left his very sanctimonius Catholic wife in Palm Springs, and he would go fuck his way around the world. The biography "Hope" makes that very clear. He was a huge pussy hound, and it was understood that if your toured with him, you fucked him. Very old show biz. Dagmar!

The Pointer Sisters fucked old man Bob Hope on their 1991 USO tour? I doubt it.

[quote]Jack Benny was/is 100x the legend that Bob Hope was. It seems like Hope's humor was secondhand from Jack.

Jack Benny's stand up routines are still hilarious.

Judy Garland is as forgotten as the stupid Sinatra quote. Sinatra's music is not forgotten.

He's forgotten because most of the people who were alive during his heydays and found him funny are either dead or in nursing homes.

A film about Garland won an Oscar last year. I don't think she's forgotten.

Because he wasn't relevant or funny for the last 30 years of his life.

Hope always had more hustle than talent. He was famous for constantly working the press, and traveling the country knowing every gossip columnist, celebrity reporter, t.v. anchor, radio personality. He would get into town and just hit the phones with these people, and they were always loyal to him. Allowed him to seem "bigger" than he actually was....Hope understood personal brand marketing -- he would have killed on Instagram.

When living in Palm Springs, it's "hey pick me up at the corner of Bob Hope and Dinah Shore"! All these fossils are ingrained forever out there. It reflects the early days out there

Gilbert Gottfried describes Bob Hope's Jack Frost.

You'll wet yourself...

Here's the song...