Courtesy of Bob Hope

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Courtesy of Bob Hope

Postby gray_marian » Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:30 am

ON TURNING 70
'I still chase women, but only downhill.'


ON TURNING 80
'That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.'


ON TURNING 90
'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.'


ON TURNING 100
'I don't feel old. In fact, I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.'


ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING
'I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.'


ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR
'Welcome to the Academy Awards, or as it's called at my home, 'Passover.'


ON GOLF
'Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees.'


ON PRESIDENTS
'I have performed for 12 presidents but entertained only six.'

ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR HIS CAREER
'When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, Congratulations, you have an eight pound ham.'



ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL
'I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.'


ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY
'Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.'


ON HIS SIX BROTHERS
'That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom.'


ON HIS EARLY FAILURES
'I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.'


ON GOING TO HEAVEN
'I've done benefits for ALL religions.
I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.'
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Re: Courtesy of Bob Hope

Postby LANDROVER ROGER » Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:28 pm

He was a brilliant,witty man.Thank you for those!
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Re: Courtesy of Bob Hope

Postby tarmmaker » Mon Feb 09, 2015 7:12 pm

Bob Monkhouse wrote material for him. Another clever comedian.
Whatever gets you thru the night. J Lennon.
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Re: Courtesy of Bob Hope

Postby LANDROVER ROGER » Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:25 pm

Tarmmaker.I saw Bob Monkhouse live at a club in Stoke-on-Trent many years ago.He was an extremely gifted man.He asked the audience to shout out topics at him and he would mould a joke around the topic.He did this for two hours! Superb!
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Re: Courtesy of Bob Hope

Postby numberplease » Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:13 am

Memories of two great, funny men. But may I suggest that Jack Benny deserves to be there as well?
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Re: Courtesy of Bob Hope

Postby gray_marian » Fri Feb 13, 2015 12:13 am

For numberplease :D JackBenny......

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument
serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either

Modesty is my best quality.

.Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Gags die, humor doesn't

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

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Re: Courtesy of Bob Hope

Postby numberplease » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:29 am

:lol:
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