This is the first time I have seen it 11/02/2019...it brought back so many memories of when Hollywood was Hollywood. I got to see Bob Live in Vietnam and in Hays, kansas..at a Show he did in the late 70's. He was a Star then..and to me..a Hero now...Rip Mr.Bob Hope...you are truly missed...Hollywood is a joke now!!...
I guess Im asking randomly but does someone know a way to log back into an Instagram account? I stupidly lost my login password. I love any assistance you can give me.
Bob Hope Specials were always welcome in my home. Bob Hope was and is one of my favorite comedians/entertainers of them all. All the joy he gave us. Where there was Hope there was life and lots of laughs. Bob your truly missed but your legacy of laughter lives on and many heavenly happy birthdays to you now dear friend!
Always a pleasure to watch one of these excellent variety shows with these excellent entertainers. Especially watching a Bob Hope special. Bob was like one of the family having grown up with him, watching his tv shows and movies. I even had the pleasure of seeing him live on stage as well as having met him. He is missed! But always remembered by those who were fortunate enough to have had HOPE! Thanks for the memories dear Robert! Thank you so much!
L did not see this because I was sick at the time.I missed this kind of shows. Almost all the legends in one show. It reminded me of the good old years. I had tears in my eyes.
Gee, as I commented earlier, Bob held up soooo well thru the years, didn't seem to age as quickly as most of his peers. He was great & I loved his movies with Lucille Ball. Glad he got too 100. It is a hard year to reach!
R . I . P. Michael Landon (1936-1991) Bob Hope (1903-2003) Tony Randall (1920-2004) Lucille Ball (1911-1989) Dinah Shore (1916-1994) Sammy Davis Jr . (1925-1990)
These were the days when all the greats were still alive. When Lucy went down and kissed Bob, it was my fav part of the show. They are my fav comics...
@@elainelosee7974, I think what "Fortysomethingbadgirl" meant she has all the Radio shows not TV shows. I also have all the Radio shows. I don't think you can find them now anywhere. Cheers!
My hubby was there with the First Lady security team for the filming. He told me Lucille Ball collapsed on staged when her legs gave out during her dance number. After about an hour she was up and back at it. He met Johnathan Winters who told him a funny off the cuff story about working for the USSS.
She passed away a few months later from the aneurysm in her colon they missed. Thats why she had problems with her legs and they missed it! What a lady!
Lucille Ball actually suffered a stroke the day after taping (May 10, 1988). The director of Wicked Stepmother (1989) was looking for a replacement for Bette Davis, who walked off the set after filming the first week of May, 1988. The director was told Lucy was in the hospital and near death from a heart attack instead. The stroke was kept from the public. It would take four months of physical therapy before she was camera ready again. She lived another fifty weeks afterwards.
35:45 Once the Duke came out, it was over! One can really feel the energy of the crowd in the moment. Stars one and all! Epic! I remember watching this special and recorded it. LOL Thanks for sharing.
2019 and pretty much the only 'senior' still alive from this special is, but of course, BETTY WHITE.... Her first TV show was ALSO in the very early 50's. Pretty much everyone else over 70 in this video is long gone. Amazing Lucille Ball still could dance and do her cabaret schtick, and would be dead within months...Bob Hope's humor came 99% from his long-time writers - and although collectively mentioned, he should have demanded the time to properly acknowledge the men behind the 'funny' that MADE him a star.
Yes, although Hope was a great&talented ad-libber, Legend has it that he would summon his writers once a week to his home and he would stand on the second floor and toss them their paychecks in the form of paper airplanes while they waited by the front door-not too classy eh?
I wonder how Milton Berle felt in light of the fact that Lucille Ball and George Burns each received a standing ovation and he did not. At any rate, Berle certainly deserved it no less than they did.
I remember seeing this when it was aired. It had to have been a thrill for Kirk Cameron, then at the height of his teen fame, to have this quick cameo appearance with Lucille Ball at 30:04. And she looked pretty good at age 76 doing that musical number.
I love this special, & watched it during the initial broadcast. My favorite part is Lucy's song & dance number, but there are tons of hilarious moments throughout the whole program. That routine with Bob Hope, Jack Jones & Jimmy Durante was unexpectedly funny!
The masked singer (1988 edition ) Host by dick Clark Channel by NBC The judges : Bob Newhart , Valerie Harper , Loni Anderson and Richard Chamberlin The contestants Peacock : Michael Landon Siamese cat: Phyllis Diller Flamingo : Morgan Fairchild Rottweiler : Tony Randall
This special was aired on 5/16/88, just four months before another Bob Hope TV special “Stand By for HNN: Hope News Network” a spoof on CNN was aired just three days after my 10th birthday. I have not seen “Stand By for HNN” in 38 years, it has Brooke Shields, Tony Randall, Morgan Fairchild, and others. I would love to see if it.
To be honest, there should've been a special called "Bob Hope Plays the Games" from 1987/1988 with special guests Alex Trebek, Pat Sajak, Bert Convy, Jim Perry, and Chuck Woolery, where he'll try to win as much cash and prizes for a lucky audience member.
Note JAMES LIPTON put this disaster together, and he went the extra $$ route by 'writing the lyrics' to "We're Having A Party..." with Cy Coleman, not his biggest contribution to music. And Les Brown comes out of retirement playing trying-to-be-hip-and-groovy arrangements so '80's yet so 60's.... This is a perfect example of why the variety show genre died... It died with the talent that went with the genre. Even the vocal singers suck - not the Johnny Mann Singers for sure. And Tartikoff??? *sigh*
Variety shows died because the real stage talent no longer exists except Betty White; Kirk Douglas passed last week, and movie industry moved into the hands of pedofiles and boy bangers looking for the fast buck like fast fashion! Thats why we now have the #metoo movement!! And this generation couldnt produce music if JayZ and Beyonce pissed on it for good measure!!
Never heard of this juke joint called Musicom..and feel all the better for not..wonder where it's off style comes from..do know where it belongs(censored)...
There is entirely too much singing and dancing in this special. You could boil it all down to about twenty minutes of pure comedy, which is not a fitting tribute to a comedian. I thought this special would never end!
Back when network TV was something you looked forward to watching. A Bob Hope special on NBC was always a treat.
At 98, I'm viewing video from Bob Hope, 1988. It was truly a enjoyable event.
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This is the first time I have seen it
11/02/2019...it brought back so many memories of when Hollywood was Hollywood. I got to see Bob Live in Vietnam and in Hays, kansas..at a Show he did in the late 70's. He was a Star then..and to me..a Hero now...Rip Mr.Bob Hope...you are truly missed...Hollywood is a joke now!!...
Even if there wasn't any Action going on Bob Hope entertained the troops and set an example for later entertainers to carry on with his example.
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I stupidly lost my login password. I love any assistance you can give me.
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Lord we need people like these for entertainment now, they loved their country and her people.
Bob Hope Specials were always welcome in my home. Bob Hope was and is one of my favorite comedians/entertainers of them all. All the joy he gave us. Where there was Hope there was life and lots of laughs. Bob your truly missed but your legacy of laughter lives on and many heavenly happy birthdays to you now dear friend!
Always a pleasure to watch one of these excellent variety shows with these excellent entertainers. Especially watching a Bob Hope special. Bob was like one of the family having grown up with him, watching his tv shows and movies. I even had the pleasure of seeing him live on stage as well as having met him. He is missed! But always remembered by those who were fortunate enough to have had HOPE! Thanks for the memories dear Robert! Thank you so much!
L did not see this because I was sick at the time.I missed this kind of shows. Almost all the legends in one show. It reminded me of the good old years. I had tears in my eyes.
R IP Leslie Townes Hope. We miss you!🌹🌹🌹
Seriously, why would anyone give this pleasant event a thumbs down? There are some weird characters here on CZcams!
Gee, as I commented earlier, Bob held up soooo well thru the years, didn't seem to age as quickly as most of his peers. He was great & I loved his movies with Lucille Ball. Glad he got too 100. It is a hard year to reach!
He passed at 99..short of 100..Delores went later: over 101..
Robert Sprouse Bob Hope may 29 1903 - July 27 2003. I think that’s over 100.
@@zachkubish598, yeah, I caught that later and forgot to change it.
My bad.
Betty White just passed at 99. 🙏
R . I . P.
Michael Landon (1936-1991)
Bob Hope (1903-2003)
Tony Randall (1920-2004)
Lucille Ball (1911-1989)
Dinah Shore (1916-1994)
Sammy Davis Jr . (1925-1990)
Molina Long
Adding to this list:
Dean Martin (1917-1995)
Don Rickles (1927-2017)
Milton Berl 1908 2002
Johnny Carson 2005
ronald reagan 1911 2004
Dolores hope 1909 2011
Johnathan winters 2008
George burns 1896 1996
Pretty much all of them except 5. I literally can’t because I LOVED all of these people!!!! Bea Arthur and Jack Benny!?!???? I mean come on!!
@@bendavey9608, Bob and Delores lived a combined 200+ years. Their wedding ring gems reverted back to coal..
I see Bob in Saudi Arabia in the 1990’s when I was in the USMC.
Omg! Alf and Bob Hope! Childhood! MADE!!!!
These were the days when all the greats were still alive. When Lucy went down and kissed Bob, it was my fav part of the show. They are my fav comics...
So blessed to have been an 80s kid and watched this LIVE.
I still have all the Grace and George Burns radio shows. ..all these great actors...
You Tube has a lot of Jack Benny's TV shows, some of which have Bob Hope
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@@elainelosee7974, I think what "Fortysomethingbadgirl" meant she has all the Radio shows not TV shows. I also have all the Radio shows. I don't think you can find them now anywhere. Cheers!
This aired on May 16, 1988, and easily won the night with a 19.0/31 rating/share.
My hubby was there with the First Lady security team for the filming. He told me Lucille Ball collapsed on staged when her legs gave out during her dance number. After about an hour she was up and back at it. He met Johnathan Winters who told him a funny off the cuff story about working for the USSS.
She passed away a few months later from the aneurysm in her colon they missed. Thats why she had problems with her legs and they missed it! What a lady!
Lucille Ball actually suffered a stroke the day after taping (May 10, 1988). The director of Wicked Stepmother (1989) was looking for a replacement for Bette Davis, who walked off the set after filming the first week of May, 1988. The director was told Lucy was in the hospital and near death from a heart attack instead. The stroke was kept from the public. It would take four months of physical therapy before she was camera ready again. She lived another fifty weeks afterwards.
Hollywood will never have this much class or royalty!
One of the best!
I keep posting cuz I am watching this! I am thinking what happened to us? We were so much kinder and tuff at the same time.
Thanks for posting I haven't seen this in 29 years
Nbc died when Bob died
i never saw this thank you for posting it.
That’s when stars had takent
Everyone except Kirk. He had no business singing with Marie
I am surprised that " Dorothy Lamour, " didn't get a standing ovation,???.
35:45
Once the Duke came out, it was over! One can really feel the energy of the crowd in the moment. Stars one and all! Epic! I remember watching this special and recorded it. LOL Thanks for sharing.
2019 and pretty much the only 'senior' still alive from this special is, but of course, BETTY WHITE.... Her first TV show was ALSO in the very early 50's. Pretty much everyone else over 70 in this video is long gone. Amazing Lucille Ball still could dance and do her cabaret schtick, and would be dead within months...Bob Hope's humor came 99% from his long-time writers - and although collectively mentioned, he should have demanded the time to properly acknowledge the men behind the 'funny' that MADE him a star.
Do your research dude!
Yes, although Hope was a great&talented ad-libber, Legend has it that he would summon his writers once a week to his home and he would stand on the second floor and toss them their paychecks in the form of paper airplanes while they waited by the front door-not too classy eh?
Sorry - Betty White Jan 17, 1922 - Dec 31, 2021 (age 99)Thats the end of that generation.
I wonder how Milton Berle felt in light of the fact that Lucille Ball and George Burns each received a standing ovation and he did not. At any rate, Berle certainly deserved it no less than they did.
karlakor Probably because Berle was too full of himself and the other two weren’t.
Berle didnt put himself there. It aggravated him. He gave many of the stars their start on his show and that was good enough for him.
@@GeorgiaOverdrive, never returned that weed eater he borrowed, did he?
@@fortysomethingbadgirls2173, you're his agent's daughter?
@@GeorgiaOverdrive
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I remember seeing this when it was aired. It had to have been a thrill for Kirk Cameron, then at the height of his teen fame, to have this quick cameo appearance with Lucille Ball at 30:04. And she looked pretty good at age 76 doing that musical number.
Loved Dolores Hope song! so classy, warm & a very sexy voice..
I love this special, & watched it during the initial broadcast. My favorite part is Lucy's song & dance number, but there are tons of hilarious moments throughout the whole program. That routine with Bob Hope, Jack Jones & Jimmy Durante was unexpectedly funny!
These great celebrations of real stars have died as we don't produce these stars of song & stage.
What impresses me about Bob Hope knew how to milk a reaction as well as the ability to use pauses.
LOL ten year old me was probably so angry that ALF wasn't on that night.
laughs..wholesomeness, warmth, and dignity.. sighhhhh
Mr. Hope could have ended here or ten or twenty years prior to this time and had a great run!
I definitely hated the fact that some performances were cut out! Other than that, what was seen I liked!
Do you have any more Christmas or Bob hope specials
Or any other tv specials
Search for them on CZcams. He had quit a few on different stations....youtubers.
at 1:42:00 all the time. very beautiful song.
One of my favorites.
The masked singer (1988 edition )
Host by dick Clark
Channel by NBC
The judges : Bob Newhart , Valerie Harper , Loni Anderson and Richard Chamberlin
The contestants
Peacock : Michael Landon
Siamese cat: Phyllis Diller
Flamingo : Morgan Fairchild
Rottweiler : Tony Randall
Do you have anymore bob hope specials
Me too, Dave. Me, too. 😄
I didn’t actually see it when it aired, but I’m sure Kirk was having the time of his life!
RIP (performers on show excluding the footage)
Bob Hope 1903 - 2003
Lucille Ball, 1911 - 1989
Milton Berle, 1908 - 2002
George Burns, 1896 - 1996
Dinah Shore, 1916 - 1994
Danny Thomas, 1912 - 1991
Don Rickles, 1926 - 2017
Jonathan Winters, 1925 - 2013
James Stewart, 1908 - 1997
Alf, 1986 - 1990
Steve Allen, 1921 - 2000
Diahann Carroll, 1935 - 2019
Bert Convy, 1933 - 1991
Sammy Davis Jr., 1925 - 1990
Phyllis Diller, 1917 - 2012
John Forsythe, 1918 - 2010
Dolores Hope, 1909 - 2011
Dorothy Lamour, 1914 - 1996
Michael Landon, 1936 - 1991
Donald O'Connor, 1925 - 2003
Tony Randall, 1920 - 2004
This special was aired on 5/16/88, just four months before another Bob Hope TV special “Stand By for HNN: Hope News Network” a spoof on CNN was aired just three days after my 10th birthday. I have not seen “Stand By for HNN” in 38 years, it has Brooke Shields, Tony Randall, Morgan Fairchild, and others. I would love to see if it.
Goerge burns 1896 1996
So you cut Reba's song, but kept Leno and the commercials?!
DrDespicable I liked Leno’s joke. But the ads were pointless
I saw Reba McIntyre sing !
Milton Berl 1908. 2002
R.I.P MR. BERLE
35:44 Living Legends. "Stars." What a moment. Don Rickles completely eviscerated Bing Crosby. Epic!
Angie Dickerson babe 💖
And what about Angie Dickinson? Hubba bubba..
Never saw Ms. Dickerson..
Awww jimmy stewart
They said 50 there's more than 50
Performing live=50
Only 2 years before Sammy died.
several others died not long after this, namely Michael Landon and Lucille Ball, few others too
Everyone died..
I told em to get a different caterer.
Lucille Ball died roughly a year later.
Lucille Ball died less than a year later on April 26, 1989. She was 76 when she did that musical number. ❤️😊
Bob Hope is a Vulcan...Look at those pointy ears.
To be honest, there should've been a special called "Bob Hope Plays the Games" from 1987/1988 with special guests Alex Trebek, Pat Sajak, Bert Convy, Jim Perry, and Chuck Woolery, where he'll try to win as much cash and prizes for a lucky audience member.
I wonder about this show's title. they say Hope started at NBC in 1938 but I read somewhere he started in 1933
I dunno, maybe he started his career in 1933 and NBC hired him in 1938.
Officially in 38 with the pepsodent radio show
It was on jeopardy. And check out the nbc 60th annive4sary special. Dinah shore pointed out that in1986 is bob hopes53rdyear.
*Video Of Bob Hope Birthday NBC Special*
*Thumbnail Is Of Bing Crosby*
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At the 37:06 mark. Priceless
Why did they cut out Reba's performance...
George 1896 1996
Delores hope 1909 2011
Ronald Reagan 1911 2004
Deloris hope 1909 2011
Oh man that opening song is very 1960s!
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George burns and Gracie Allen
Interesting that Sinatra wasn't there.
What’s the name of the actor at 1:59:31? Thanks so much! A great show😂
Where were bill crosby and phylicia rashad stars OF the number1 Show OF the time. And how about Michael j. Fox?
How old were you in 1988
Note JAMES LIPTON put this disaster together, and he went the extra $$ route by 'writing the lyrics' to "We're Having A Party..." with Cy Coleman, not his biggest contribution to music. And Les Brown comes out of retirement playing trying-to-be-hip-and-groovy arrangements so '80's yet so 60's.... This is a perfect example of why the variety show genre died... It died with the talent that went with the genre. Even the vocal singers suck - not the Johnny Mann Singers for sure. And Tartikoff??? *sigh*
Variety shows died because the real stage talent no longer exists except Betty White; Kirk Douglas passed last week, and movie industry moved into the hands of pedofiles and boy bangers looking for the fast buck like fast fashion! Thats why we now have the #metoo movement!! And this generation couldnt produce music if JayZ and Beyonce pissed on it for good measure!!
Never heard of this juke joint called Musicom..and feel all the better for not..wonder where it's off style comes from..do know where it belongs(censored)...
Which one's Carson at 36:24.
CosmicLeo Entertainment neither. One in the black suit is john Wayne
wait a minute who is that is that alf what is he doing here at bob hope 's birthday party tonight in 1988
2:07
2:07:44
It's not 50 guests it's 71 guests
36:29 Three toupees, no waiting.
Bloody f redickliss wth is program ads doing on this ceremony
Bleedin recorded off of N.ORLEANS TV with ads left in..blimey..
And, I am not even British..
Some people like to watch old commercials just to see what was selling in the old days. Sometime they are funny. Just saying !
1:43:42
Bob Hope was *nothing* like his public image. JS.
Eye Gotcha he was a caricature then became rapidly deteriorating caricature. He had his way with the ladies, even during marriage
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cripes ANgie Dikersen..................................
There is entirely too much singing and dancing in this special. You could boil it all down to about twenty minutes of pure comedy, which is not a fitting tribute to a comedian. I thought this special would never end!
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