Loved Bob Hope as a kid. Great to see him still up to doing shenanigans with Dave!! Looked great too! Always a classy Gentleman!💞 When I ended up living and working in Palm Springs one year his house was up on top on a hill that looked over the city and you could look up from the street and see the top of the dome that was his roof. I was a horse trail guide and also worked for the famous Desert Riders a group who trucked their horses in for the winter so they could ride all year. They gave me a horse of one of their membership who's son had just returned from the Vietnam War a complete mess. So they needed someone to ride Mareshe all that season. It was a beautiful ride up around behind Bob Hope's property. Never saw him but did exercise Sonny Bono's 2 white Arabian Horses. Plus a handful of celebrities horses who were being boarded at the Smoke Tree Stables where I did daily guided horse rides from. Thanks for sharing this segment with Good Old Bob Hope! Bwahahah!
When I was a kid, I saw Bob Hope at a police benefit when he was traveling with the gold diggers. Man he was so funny, I was laughing like a mental patient. A lot of charisma
@@Plisken65 yeah he became bitter & political. Jesus Christ he didn’t become political for the sake of being political. Times change and people like Dave feel a responsibility to speak out about things.
It was so loose and fun, felt like a bunch of friends just having a good time... but you have to be a real pro to do a show like that and keep it from falling apart.
@@exerciserelax8719 Agreed. I loved Carson too, but with Dave it was a completely different feel...more for the younger high school and college crowd. At the same time, with his small, rather cheesy studio and “fly by the seat of your pants” approach, it was really more of a throwback to the classic early days of guys like Steve Allen. A lot of it was NYC at the time, too...it was like Dave’s own personal playground! And yes, the city was definitely different before 9/11 (it kind of breaks my heart, really). It was the guests he had, a combination of classic icons (like Bob Hope) and new, young movie stars and musical talent. It was also the writers and creative people he had who came up with all the great, goofy things he did. Watching a clip like this does make me nostalgic for my own high school and college days, when life seemed simpler....hell, it was simpler. It’s like a little time capsule.
The stills w the music used coming back from the network commercial breaks, similar to what SNL did, always sets suck an amazing mood to bring u right back into the show. Some very creative ppl. Always loved that small detail evident here.
contrary to what i heard somewhere..Bob did NOT stay in public eye too long and become hackneyed! he went directly from handsome (and appreciated) to cute(and appreciated) to deceased (and sorely missed). thank you Don!
They made a movie a couple years ago about this called Misbehavior, and Greg Greg Kinnear played Hope. It's interesting to contrast this real footage with how they filmed the scene.
Can't hate him for that, but I pity the troops assisting troublemakers to do mischief overseas... Aside from that, Hope had another side to him. He was cheap. He should have been more generous to those working on his specials...
I wonder who removed my comment from earlier today. Yeah, Dave was an uptight bully. If anyone called him on it, they usually weren't asked back for a Long time. Check out Harvey Pekar on the show. Dave castigates him for his casual dress, and Harvey points out that Dave is wearing sneakers. Dave then asserts that he looks better than Harvey, and then that even Paul is better looking than him, and has them shown side by side. He mocks him for his appearance(the man is a writer, not a TV"personality"), then comments on his "winning" personality. He is such a bastion of Midwestern decency that he mocks Julia Child's curvature of the spine behind her back, during a cooking segment. He was also right there with Trump, objectifying beauty contestants, whom he agreed should be judged solely by appearance. He was like a John in a pimphouse. And in this segment, he keeps referring to "what he really needs", leading to further embarrassment of the female page he awkwardly "handles", this moments from his chivalrous threats of violence against someone who mistreated "a little girl" page. Creepy is as creepy does...
@@joeambrose3260 I have no idea. I think I had this in a playlist and commented after the previous video ended. Sorry. I think in another video one of his lovely assistants/stage hands came out and did something with the phone at his desk.
@@bossfan49 Thanks for answering. Watched again and paid attention, it's the chick at 13:00. Surprised Bob was back so soon after Dave insulted him several times during the re-run show in Dec '88
@@moochercat Dave’s show was totally different on CBS. It seemed to me like there were a lot of different people involved who were trying to capture the magic of the NBC show. It was like a watered down version. That original 12:30 slot in that cheesy little studio was just wonderful and, yes, magical. I always thought that Dave was having more fun in that original NBC slot as well. Maybe it was just me, but Dave just seemed to loose a lot of his motivation for quite some time, when he didn’t inherit The Tonight Show from Carson. I know that he was really affected by it.
If you think CBS neutered him, wtf do you think they would have done to him had he got the tonight show? A 40 year institution at the time. CBS was virgin ground and gave him so much leeway
Which one? I just love this clip, for several reasons. You’ve got David Letterman in his prime doing his classic late night NBC show. You’ve got Bob Hope, age 86, heading into the twilight of life but still sharp as a tack. Watching Bob involved in some of a Dave’s shenanigans (and seemingly enjoying it) is just magical.
@@scottmoore1614 Bob Hope. The second I heard his voice, a flood of jokes and good memories watching him hit me. He’s just amazing. Letterman is great too of course, and you can tell he respects Bob.
@@scottmoore1614 He wasn't, no. He wasn't in bad humor at all and was a very good sport, but this is not his (or anybody's) idea of a good time. 86yo showbiz legends don't like going on a talk show only to have to get up and wander around hallways aimlessly, wait for something to happen that never does, then be left there in the hallway like you're garbage by the self-important narcissist tv host. Nor did he much appreciate that Letterman kept going on and on about this petty weird inside reference stuff about this other show. He plays it very graciously, but tbh one wishes he had been less gracious. Maybe Bob Hope telling him off on air would have improved Letterman as a person.
@@scottmoore1614 Oh no doubt. Much better and more memorable TV, as disaster always is. Letterman's 80s show was great but a comedy or newscast or anything else can never compete w the mistakes made during it. Gag reels are almost always funnier than the comedy show/movie.
. So.......they OBVIOUSLY planned to do this beforehand, but then the News show across the hall (apparently) got 'wind' of it, and planned their own little "surprise" (i.e., locking them out) for Dave (and Bob). As silly as an exercise as it turned out to be, pretty damn entertaining !!! .
Letterman liked to spend, shall we say, alone time with the attractive female staff members (although, maybe Paul Shafer had to sing for his supper too)..
@ 4:52 the door on Dave's left is the dressing room with the famous Henson painted pipes - of 'Muppet" characters. You can see it here @ 18:06 - ua-cam.com/video/8K-bxuB1WEw/v-deo.html The 'pipe closet' (not to be confused with the 'electrical closets' in the building) is part of the overpriced tour. Don'tcha just love the scars on the 6A doors? Show biz is so glamorous, looks like L@5 left some of the tour folks inside over a weekend with Chuck and they were furiously clawing at the doors to get out. Ah, the magic of TV. Dave 'gets' on a plane and next he's on the Henry Hudson going north - then suddenly south!
When I saw this, it reminded me of when Dave went on the Norm Macdonald podcast, and told a story about when they were going to start 'Late Night' in the early 80's, and Carson Productions, who were responsible for the show, told them a list of things they couldn't do. And some producer gave an exemple of the kind of joke that was off limits: "Let's say that Bob Hope is arrested for selling drugs. Don't. Make. Jokes. About. Bob Hope being arrested for selling drugs."
I do, but that's Late Show era, and most of those shows are less accessible at the moment. I'll be focusing on Late Night until I finish digitizing the show. Around 77% there.
Carson called Hope his worst guest. Hope’s people would give Carson a list of questions and remarks to say to Hope and Hope had pre planned answers and responses.
I wonder if they ever got a statement from the people on the other show, and what they had to say about locking the one and only international icon BOB HOPE out of their studio?!
Letterman made his career largely by pointing out that people are absurdly petty, self-agrandizing, restrictive and obsessed with control, and that the conventions of show biz were to be trivialized and mocked. Then, Ubulike, he reveals that all of this uptight, puritanical crap is ingrained in himself, or his preferred persona. Look at him with Harvey Pekar, who enraged him with absolutely natural behavior. He has Bob Hope, who never got to plug his special, or say more than 5 words at a time, half the time talking over him. It is a revelation, because back when this aired, I thought he was cool. Now, time and again, I see what my Uncle was saying about his unyielding aggression. He disparages and mocks his guests, pulling and ordering an 86 year old "superstar" around, like a circus elephant, like Harold Diddlebock, taking his lion around to the banks.Great movie: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Harold Lloyds last movie, written by Preston Sturges(?)maybe. Brilliant dialogue, and visually like an old Willy Elder cartoon from the first Mad Magazines...he almost gets his good hand( other blown half off by prop bomb) bitten by the lion, on camera, while delivering a long speech, while gesticulating. He never missed a beat. Howard Hughes (producer)put out his cut, "Mad Wednesday", which ends with a horse singing "Roll Me Over in the Clover"
John Dalton Thanks for the corroboration. I don't believe in heroes now. To me, it's like painting a bullseye on some one, to elevate them. I always knew what Dave was doing, it seems I was a meaner person and enjoyed it, the chaos, but now I see he's like a spoilt child, mad because the neighbors won't let him play at their house. It's surreal though, that they set up the funny bit where he walks off, which gave him the perfect excuse for his pettiness as part of the act, but he comes back and is still petulant and angry. Bob Hope told him he was already on their show. But I am not remarking about his behavior, as much as how I don't find it entertaining any more. Steve Allen, who was not universally loved, would fall about laughing if one of his wacky stunts failed. He didn't start a scary vendetta and villify people by name... Come to think of it, that is entertaining. I am a fuddy-duddy. Check out Harold Lloyds Sin of Harold Diddlebock. Hilarious Midwestern wasp comedy, Letterman should have watched it every day for inspiration. Key to Lloyd's humour is overcoming adversity through resourcefulness. Should have got the old warhawk on the ledge and gone in through the window...
Much of what you say is probably true, but it doesn't strike me as a revelation. There was nothing about Letterman that ever gave off the idea that he wasn't trying hard or didn't care about what he was doing. It also was leaked fairly early that he was a self-flagellating control freak whose harshest criticisms were saved for himself. I don't think he so much as crafted a comedic persona as just harnessed his genuinely acerbic outlook and aimed it at the cult of celebrity from the inside. Dave wasn't a salt of the earth farmer, but a middle manager who resented his bosses because he was smarter than they were. He was Brando and Burton, claiming to despise what they were so good at, all the while seeming to desperately need it. The intriguing thing about Letterman was that he actually wasn't above it all and seemed to know it. He just had enough self-knowledge to be as disgusted with himself as he was with the rest of the club he joined.
Thank you. I was pretty critical. Bob Hope was an absolute Angel (Hah). Someone told me that he handed Paul a note on his entrance, which said merely: "Bullshit". That sums up the virtues of showbiz, I guess. I like good music, satire, etc., I have been an entertainer, myself, and yet I understand why certain cultures ban popular entertainment. In its worst moments, it seems to solemnize ego gratification, and trivialize profundity by lack of appreciation, by being willfully obtuse, like the POTUS. Now it's official. Politics is just a branch of popular entertainment. A potentially deadly branch. Like Russian Roulette... Say, are you Putin me on? Ho ho. We need more theater of the absurd, more of the emperor's new clothes sensibility, and less "heroic" histrionics. Everyone is a victim, in some sense, or bound to be, as is the "bully" beat up by a "hero", the Jew deposed by the Nazi, the Muslim forbidden to travel, the Mexican laborertorn from his family and deported by our heroic xenophobic gameshow host in chief. He makes Nixon look good. This is the pitfall of a commercial based "reality", of Capitalism, which is, in a word, the love of money, Man's creation, a God in his own image. I ain't broke but I'm badly bent, everybody loves them dead Presidents. Mind you, in a witches' coven, the leader of the 12, the one with the goats head, " Black John", is called the President. AfterJ.F. Kennedy was killed, they put his head on a silver coin, in remembrance of John the Baptist's(Elijah reincarnate, according to Jesus, his desciple) beheading at the whim of Salome, who commanded his head be brought to her on a silver charger. When asked why, she said, "To look at it." Was this a signal of the advent of the Messiah? Ah, but I digress...
13:00 Anyone know what ever happened to the female page? Now almost 32 years later. You wonder how people’s life turn out. She certainly was the topic for part of this clip! Also, not only did Dave initiate the two hand greeting with the her, he wouldn’t turn loose of her hand haha. He then told her, let’s do it again.
djf750 wrong, that's insulting, those troops went on their own, as they were away from their families , etc, they loved having someone come and entertain them, especially in some of the very remote areas they went to. Shut your piehole
I was in the Army during Vietnam era and a fellow soldier who was in Vietnam told me they were ordered to go to his shows. WW2 was a different story. They seemed to love him and his "humor"
BuckyBrown - Name calling now, huh? I've heard Bob Hope's standup on XM Radio from the early 40's. He was HORRIBLE. The audience barely laughed, it was embarrassing to listen to. His lame jokes on those NBC shows were HORRIBLE and the laughter and applause was fake as hell. I DID like his movie persona though, the wise cracking, woman chasing cowardly smart ass WAS humorous. My brother was a child actor and was on a TV show with him in the 60's and he was a VERY nice man...BUT his jokes were LAME. That was nice that he entertained the troops during WW2 and Korea, but the troops in Vietnam were ordered to go to his shows or they went to see the pretty girls (who he was having affairs with)
Loved Bob Hope as a kid.
Great to see him still up to doing shenanigans with Dave!!
Looked great too!
Always a classy Gentleman!💞
When I ended up living and working in Palm Springs one year his house was up on top on a hill that looked over the city and you could look up from the street and see the top of the dome that was his roof.
I was a horse trail guide and also worked for the famous Desert Riders a group who trucked their horses in for the winter so they could ride all year.
They gave me a horse of one of their membership who's son had just returned from the Vietnam War a complete mess.
So they needed someone to ride Mareshe all that season. It was a beautiful ride up around behind Bob Hope's property. Never saw him but did exercise Sonny Bono's 2 white Arabian Horses.
Plus a handful of celebrities horses who were being boarded at the Smoke Tree Stables where I did daily guided horse rides from.
Thanks for sharing this segment with Good Old Bob Hope!
Bwahahah!
One of the Great entertainers from the days when we had a large quantity of quality stars.
I have watched this segment several times and laugh harder than the time before. This was GREAT Television.
Great to see two of the great comedic talents together in a flippant manner.
It was fabulous and funny!
Bob Hope was the man for a long time
When I was a kid, I saw Bob Hope at a police benefit when he was traveling with the gold diggers. Man he was so funny, I was laughing like a mental patient. A lot of charisma
Bob gave such enjoyment to our troops.
This was what made David Letterman a Late Night Pioneer. Bob Hope: "I Love it!"
Even in his 80s Bob Hope was so super awesome, he definitely doesn’t remind me of an 80-year-old maybe a 27-year-old
What a voice Bob had!
2 Giants of Show Biz!
Hard to blieve Carson embarrased to have Hope on his show
@@gregwatson8219 Hope apparently loosened up with Dave. Carson complained that Hope didn't have any spontaneity and relied on his writers too much.
Bob was a trooper. Fantastic.
Bob was 86 there. Made it another 14 years.
Hmm. Lol
@Don Giller thank you so much for uploading all of these amazing clips, I may not know you but I now consider you among my personal heroes! :)
You need higher standards for personal heroes. :)
i know Im kind of randomly asking but does anybody know of a good site to stream newly released tv shows online ?
God, I miss Dave’s old show!
Amen. Brings me way back
@@Plisken65 yeah he became bitter & political. Jesus Christ he didn’t become political for the sake of being political. Times change and people like Dave feel a responsibility to speak out about things.
It was so loose and fun, felt like a bunch of friends just having a good time... but you have to be a real pro to do a show like that and keep it from falling apart.
@@exerciserelax8719 Agreed. I loved Carson too, but with Dave it was a completely different feel...more for the younger high school and college crowd. At the same time, with his small, rather cheesy studio and “fly by the seat of your pants” approach, it was really more of a throwback to the classic early days of guys like Steve Allen. A lot of it was NYC at the time, too...it was like Dave’s own personal playground! And yes, the city was definitely different before 9/11 (it kind of breaks my heart, really). It was the guests he had, a combination of classic icons (like Bob Hope) and new, young movie stars and musical talent. It was also the writers and creative people he had who came up with all the great, goofy things he did. Watching a clip like this does make me nostalgic for my own high school and college days, when life seemed simpler....hell, it was simpler. It’s like a little time capsule.
I miss Bob Hope
Bob is the greatest!
Reminds me how much I miss The Larry Sanders Show.
It was nice to hear Bob Hopes little laugh after he sat down and Letterman made a joke, been years since I heard that
Everyone loved Bob hope
Great upload! This is what is missing from today's late-niters
Jam packed with the best of Letterman.
Letterman was must see TV in the 80s.
The stills w the music used coming back from the network commercial breaks, similar to what SNL did, always sets suck an amazing mood to bring u right back into the show. Some very creative ppl. Always loved that small detail evident here.
*Carson did it for 30 years
This is f%@king awesome gotta one a the best Letterman segments ever
Thanks, Don. You're the number one internet resource for anyone who liked Dave, hated him, or just stumbled across him.
Who could hate Dave. ?
contrary to what i heard somewhere..Bob did NOT stay in public eye too long and become hackneyed! he went directly from handsome (and appreciated) to cute(and appreciated) to deceased (and sorely missed). thank you Don!
I miss Bob Hope
I almost forgot about the two lovely ladies that used to frequent Daves show. The segment was called will it float, and also as grinder girl.
They made a movie a couple years ago about this called Misbehavior, and Greg Greg Kinnear played Hope. It's interesting to contrast this real footage with how they filmed the scene.
Bob hope what an incredible person here to the troops
Can't hate him for that, but I pity the troops assisting troublemakers to do mischief overseas... Aside from that, Hope had another side to him. He was cheap. He should have been more generous to those working on his specials...
Dave is absolutely adorable!
Master class A-holes not to welcome Bob Hope & Dave as surprise quests.
Legend. "I want to talk to you about your tie."
SO MUCH GOODNESS IN THIS UPLOAD!
I wonder who removed my comment from earlier today. Yeah, Dave was an uptight bully. If anyone called him on it, they usually weren't asked back for a Long time. Check out Harvey Pekar on the show. Dave castigates him for his casual dress, and Harvey points out that Dave is wearing sneakers. Dave then asserts that he looks better than Harvey, and then that even Paul is better looking than him, and has them shown side by side. He mocks him for his appearance(the man is a writer, not a TV"personality"), then comments on his "winning" personality. He is such a bastion of Midwestern decency that he mocks Julia Child's curvature of the spine behind her back, during a cooking segment. He was also right there with Trump, objectifying beauty contestants, whom he agreed should be judged solely by appearance. He was like a John in a pimphouse. And in this segment, he keeps referring to "what he really needs", leading to further embarrassment of the female page he awkwardly "handles", this moments from his chivalrous threats of violence against someone who mistreated "a little girl" page. Creepy is as creepy does...
That girl was absolutely gorgeous. Wow.
Which girl ? Time stamp please
@@joeambrose3260 I have no idea. I think I had this in a playlist and commented after the previous video ended. Sorry. I think in another video one of his lovely assistants/stage hands came out and did something with the phone at his desk.
@@bossfan49 Thanks for answering. Watched again and paid attention, it's the chick at 13:00. Surprised Bob was back so soon after Dave insulted him several times during the re-run show in Dec '88
@@joeambrose3260 Oh yeah...that's her. Ok, so I WASN'T drunk!
larry bud melman?
Larry Bud Melman, I met him at a comedy joint in Daytona, where I won some amateur comedy contest. I think that was in '87 or '88
Bob Hope 86 in this clip. Wow!
14:46 Oh that Quip by Paul!
Yep.
if that comment had been made nowadays... Shaffer would be "cancelled" by the idiot "woke" left before he could say "what happened?"
ANOTHER of the countless examples why this man was the KING of late night.
Bob Hope? Carson was King of late night!!!
Carson will always be the king of late night
@@tmcge3325 NO.... David Letterman! Not Bob Hope
@@fatandyboy6856 not letterman....Carson was and will always be King of Late Night!
Damn, Dave had great energy here. Too bad it disappeared after moving to CBS.
That 11:30 money went to his head. Unfortunately.
it was a better show on nbc, wasn't it?
@@moochercat Dave’s show was totally different on CBS. It seemed to me like there were a lot of different people involved who were trying to capture the magic of the NBC show. It was like a watered down version. That original 12:30 slot in that cheesy little studio was just wonderful and, yes, magical. I always thought that Dave was having more fun in that original NBC slot as well. Maybe it was just me, but Dave just seemed to loose a lot of his motivation for quite some time, when he didn’t inherit The Tonight Show from Carson. I know that he was really affected by it.
If you think CBS neutered him, wtf do you think they would have done to him had he got the tonight show? A 40 year institution at the time. CBS was virgin ground and gave him so much leeway
It helps that at NBC, it was in a building full-on other media outlets like NBC news, SNL, WNBC radio etc etc.
Good Lord, what a legend.
Which one? I just love this clip, for several reasons. You’ve got David Letterman in his prime doing his classic late night NBC show. You’ve got Bob Hope, age 86, heading into the twilight of life but still sharp as a tack. Watching Bob involved in some of a Dave’s shenanigans (and seemingly enjoying it) is just magical.
@@scottmoore1614 Bob Hope. The second I heard his voice, a flood of jokes and good memories watching him hit me. He’s just amazing. Letterman is great too of course, and you can tell he respects Bob.
Considering that he didn’t exactly have a reputation for being magnanimous, Bob seemed to take this in stride.
Bob seemed to be genuinely having a good time.
@@scottmoore1614 He wasn't, no. He wasn't in bad humor at all and was a very good sport, but this is not his (or anybody's) idea of a good time. 86yo showbiz legends don't like going on a talk show only to have to get up and wander around hallways aimlessly, wait for something to happen that never does, then be left there in the hallway like you're garbage by the self-important narcissist tv host. Nor did he much appreciate that Letterman kept going on and on about this petty weird inside reference stuff about this other show. He plays it very graciously, but tbh one wishes he had been less gracious. Maybe Bob Hope telling him off on air would have improved Letterman as a person.
@@georgial6398 I still think it was much funnier that they didn’t get in.
@@scottmoore1614 Oh no doubt. Much better and more memorable TV, as disaster always is. Letterman's 80s show was great but a comedy or newscast or anything else can never compete w the mistakes made during it. Gag reels are almost always funnier than the comedy show/movie.
Yes. My impression as well. Letterman keeps jabbering away. Hope was generous.
Even remember when Mike Douglas moved his show to LA and Bob Hope walked on. Douglas loved it.
Oh, but Bob's best-ever walk-on was also his last, at the tender age of 99: ua-cam.com/video/U1Sm_rqsgM4/v-deo.html
Oh my God this is great...
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So.......they OBVIOUSLY planned to do this beforehand, but then the News show across the hall (apparently) got 'wind' of it, and planned their own little "surprise" (i.e., locking them out) for Dave (and Bob).
As silly as an exercise as it turned out to be, pretty damn entertaining !!!
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Thanks!
That is one good-looking page.
Letterman liked to spend, shall we say, alone time with the attractive female staff members (although, maybe Paul Shafer had to sing for his supper too)..
OK Joe, as Dave himself said when he preëmpted the blackmailer, he was “creepy.” Or some such. I’d have to agree.
I miss those days....
@ 4:52 the door on Dave's left is the dressing room with the famous Henson painted pipes - of 'Muppet" characters.
You can see it here @ 18:06 - ua-cam.com/video/8K-bxuB1WEw/v-deo.html
The 'pipe closet' (not to be confused with the 'electrical closets' in the building) is part of the overpriced tour.
Don'tcha just love the scars on the 6A doors? Show biz is so glamorous, looks like L@5 left some of the tour folks
inside over a weekend with Chuck and they were furiously clawing at the doors to get out.
Ah, the magic of TV. Dave 'gets' on a plane and next he's on the Henry Hudson going north - then suddenly south!
Bob was the canary in the mine
LITERALLY with that suit
When I saw this, it reminded me of when Dave went on the Norm Macdonald podcast, and told a story about when they were going to start 'Late Night' in the early 80's, and Carson Productions, who were responsible for the show, told them a list of things they couldn't do. And some producer gave an exemple of the kind of joke that was off limits: "Let's say that Bob Hope is arrested for selling drugs. Don't. Make. Jokes. About. Bob Hope being arrested for selling drugs."
I remember that episode!
Life is so short its crazy... we age so fast and change so much in short period of time
Totally normal thing to post on a video featuring an 86yo who would live to 100.
Do you have some clips of Dave spraying Richard Simmons with a fire extinguisher? Those videos seemed to have disappeared off UA-cam
I do, but that's Late Show era, and most of those shows are less accessible at the moment. I'll be focusing on Late Night until I finish digitizing the show. Around 77% there.
6:48 Hope to Dave: "I think you otta put a lock on this side." with a little wink....and Dave didn't hear a word.
I remember when
Now I'm gonna check out that Robyn Hitchcock performance...
And the woman sitting on the table says: who is this old man?
"I think that's Bob Hope"
I'll bet Bob Hope thought letterman was an amusing goofball.
Carson called Hope his worst guest. Hope’s people would give Carson a list of questions and remarks to say to Hope and Hope had pre planned answers and responses.
I saw Bob Hope shortly after this at a float plane terminal in Victoria BC. He did not look well, to say the least.
Yea that's how talk shows work. Esp w comic performers. Maybe not that precisely all the time, but that's the norm for, for example, Norm.
Ain't that wild.
I wonder if they ever got a statement from the people on the other show, and what they had to say about locking the one and only international icon BOB HOPE out of their studio?!
They wouldn’t let Bob Hope inside? WTF!
America’s second greatest Englishman...after Sir Winston Churchill
you can tell Dave really beats himself up
Dave made pretty good time getting back! (12:48)
Great to see actual play on the tv. Nobody needs to hear Bob Hope’s jokes, but we love to see him do something unexpected.
Where was his golf club? He is usually"Just playing through".
Lock out Bob Hope are you freakin kidding me 🤣🤣🤣
What happened with Hope at 07:05? Was that all he got on that program?
1:12 “How are you Paul?” A little hard to hear over the applause, but Bob was greeting Dave.
And Dave wasn’t bothered one bit. I’m sure he noticed but he just said: “Good. How are you?” and moved right past it.
@@TheLadsBandLive He's an 86yo who had just greeted a guy named Paul, I don't think it was taken personally.
Bob was 86 here.
Did he call Dave “Paul” when he sat down for the first time?
Marlon Martinez , I heard that too!
Poor guy at the door was just trying to do his job.
Was he driving a Chrysler LeBaron convertible? I used to want one of those so badly..
I had an '88. Unfortunately it was in 2004.
@@jimmyguitar2933 HaH
I want to tell you about your tie -
Can't stop laugh n
He Woulduh caught a slap from Rickles for that one
I know... we're a little late.
wow they locked out bob hope that sucks
Probably the same jerks that wouldn't let Paul McCartney into their party...
@@kenlieck7756 probably so
At 8:39 Dave needs Broma Seltzer!
1:10 how are you Paul? The oldyin was losing his marbles, or was he being a smart ass? Dave is the easiest name to remember in the world.
Probably just a slip-up. Katherine Zita Jones was once on Late Show and called Dave "Jay."
@@dongiller Now THAT sounds like it may have been intentional.
It's an easy name to forget also. There's a million "Dave"s
How about Jim?
mmmmmm melanie mayron
Great sh**
Letterman made his career largely by pointing out that people are absurdly petty, self-agrandizing, restrictive and obsessed with control, and that the conventions of show biz were to be trivialized and mocked.
Then, Ubulike, he reveals that all of this uptight, puritanical crap is ingrained in himself, or his preferred persona.
Look at him with Harvey Pekar, who enraged him with absolutely natural behavior.
He has Bob Hope, who never got to plug his special, or say more than 5 words at a time, half the time talking over him.
It is a revelation, because back when this aired, I thought he was cool.
Now, time and again, I see what my Uncle was saying about his unyielding aggression.
He disparages and mocks his guests, pulling and ordering an 86 year old "superstar" around, like a circus elephant, like Harold Diddlebock, taking his lion around to the banks.Great movie: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Harold Lloyds last movie, written by Preston Sturges(?)maybe. Brilliant dialogue, and visually like an old Willy Elder cartoon from the first Mad Magazines...he almost gets his good hand( other blown half off by prop bomb) bitten by the lion, on camera, while delivering a long speech, while gesticulating. He never missed a beat. Howard Hughes (producer)put out his cut, "Mad Wednesday", which ends with a horse singing "Roll Me Over in the Clover"
Bob plugged his special in his second segment, which wasn't included here.
John Dalton
Thanks for the corroboration. I don't believe in heroes now. To me, it's like painting a bullseye on some one, to elevate them. I always knew what Dave was doing, it seems I was a meaner person and enjoyed it, the chaos, but now I see he's like a spoilt child, mad because the neighbors won't let him play at their house. It's surreal though, that they set up the funny bit where he walks off, which gave him the perfect excuse for his pettiness as part of the act, but he comes back and is still petulant and angry. Bob Hope told him he was already on their show. But I am not remarking about his behavior, as much as how I don't find it entertaining any more. Steve Allen, who was not universally loved, would fall about laughing if one of his wacky stunts failed. He didn't start a scary vendetta and villify people by name... Come to think of it, that is entertaining. I am a fuddy-duddy. Check out Harold Lloyds Sin of Harold Diddlebock. Hilarious Midwestern wasp comedy, Letterman should have watched it every day for inspiration. Key to Lloyd's humour is overcoming adversity through resourcefulness. Should have got the old warhawk on the ledge and gone in through the window...
Much of what you say is probably true, but it doesn't strike me as a revelation. There was nothing about Letterman that ever gave off the idea that he wasn't trying hard or didn't care about what he was doing. It also was leaked fairly early that he was a self-flagellating control freak whose harshest criticisms were saved for himself. I don't think he so much as crafted a comedic persona as just harnessed his genuinely acerbic outlook and aimed it at the cult of celebrity from the inside. Dave wasn't a salt of the earth farmer, but a middle manager who resented his bosses because he was smarter than they were. He was Brando and Burton, claiming to despise what they were so good at, all the while seeming to desperately need it. The intriguing thing about Letterman was that he actually wasn't above it all and seemed to know it. He just had enough self-knowledge to be as disgusted with himself as he was with the rest of the club he joined.
Thank you. I was pretty critical. Bob Hope was an absolute Angel (Hah). Someone told me that he handed Paul a note on his entrance, which said merely: "Bullshit". That sums up the virtues of showbiz, I guess.
I like good music, satire, etc., I have been an entertainer, myself, and yet I understand why certain cultures ban popular entertainment. In its worst moments, it seems to solemnize ego gratification, and trivialize profundity by lack of appreciation, by being willfully obtuse, like the POTUS. Now it's official. Politics is just a branch of popular entertainment. A potentially deadly branch. Like Russian Roulette... Say, are you Putin me on? Ho ho.
We need more theater of the absurd, more of the emperor's new clothes sensibility, and less "heroic" histrionics. Everyone is a victim, in some sense, or bound to be, as is the "bully" beat up by a "hero", the Jew deposed by the Nazi, the Muslim forbidden to travel, the Mexican laborertorn from his family and deported by our heroic xenophobic gameshow host in chief. He makes Nixon look good. This is the pitfall of a commercial based "reality", of Capitalism, which is, in a word, the love of money, Man's creation, a God in his own image. I ain't broke but I'm badly bent, everybody loves them dead Presidents. Mind you, in a witches' coven, the leader of the 12, the one with the goats head, " Black John", is called the President.
AfterJ.F. Kennedy was killed, they put his head on a silver coin, in remembrance of John the Baptist's(Elijah reincarnate, according to Jesus, his desciple) beheading at the whim of Salome, who commanded his head be brought to her on a silver charger.
When asked why, she said, "To look at it." Was this a signal of the advent of the Messiah? Ah, but I digress...
Letterman was becoming terribly self- indulgent during this period, a preview of the craziness to come.
audience making their own jokes
I’m fairly certain that I need to marry that page. Let me check. Yes. Yes, I do.
lol bob hope just slides by the illegal hire
13:00 Anyone know what ever happened to the female page? Now almost 32 years later. You wonder how people’s life turn out. She certainly was the topic for part of this clip!
Also, not only did Dave initiate the two hand greeting with the her, he wouldn’t turn loose of her hand haha. He then told her, let’s do it again.
No bit silly
Bob Hope was about as funny as a Daycare Fire...George Burns,Jack Benny,Milton Burl...None of those guys were funny.
Millinials...🙄
When real people had real talent. Now it's garbage.
Yeah the late 80's when talented people like New Kids on the Block and Morton Downey Jr ruled the airwaves!
@@culwin ouch
Bob Hope was not funny and made a career out of entertaining troops. During Vietnam they MADE troops go to his corny shows. Letterman is very funny.
djf750 wrong, that's insulting, those troops went on their own, as they were away from their families , etc, they loved having someone come and entertain them, especially in some of the very remote areas they went to. Shut your piehole
I was in the Army during Vietnam era and a fellow soldier who was in Vietnam told me they were ordered to go to his shows.
WW2 was a different story. They seemed to love him and his "humor"
BuckyBrown - Name calling now, huh? I've heard Bob Hope's standup on XM Radio from the early 40's. He was HORRIBLE. The audience barely laughed, it was embarrassing to listen to.
His lame jokes on those NBC shows were HORRIBLE and the laughter and applause was fake as hell.
I DID like his movie persona though, the wise cracking, woman chasing cowardly smart ass WAS humorous.
My brother was a child actor and was on a TV show with him in the 60's and he was a VERY nice man...BUT his jokes were LAME.
That was nice that he entertained the troops during WW2 and Korea, but the troops in Vietnam were ordered to go to his shows or they went to see the pretty girls (who he was having affairs with)
djf750 Have you seen Bob Hope movies, they were terrible !! He was more famous just for being Bob Hope.
Bucky Brown A lot of people don't like Letterman, you're not alone there, but I'm curious as to why you're clicking on his videos?
He broke his friend Eddie Ternal out of jail. Hope springs ETernal.
Don't make me bring out the yodelling ventriloquist.