Bob Hope
Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS, was an American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. With a career spanning nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in over 70 films and shorts, including a series of "Road" movies also starring Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. In addition to hosting the Academy Awards 19 times, he appeared in many stage productions and television roles and was the author of fourteen books. The song "Thanks for the Memory" is widely regarded...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth29 May 1903
CityLondon, England
CountryUnited States of America
Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.
The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
Everyone's nervous these days. Ronald McDonald has hired six bodyguards, and that's just to protect his buns.
It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.
Television is the box they buried entertainment in.
I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.
President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.
On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.
It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.
You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.
The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.