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I don’t know if kids today even know his name (I feel like such an old fogey sometimes), but Bob Hope in his prime was hilarious. His humor was clever and, for its time, pretty erudite. He was the Dennis Miller of his generation, really. Check out this clip from the 1940 movie Ghost Breakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if kids today even know his name (I feel like such an old fogey sometimes), but Bob Hope in his prime was hilarious. His humor was clever and, for its time, pretty erudite. He was the Dennis Miller of his generation, really. 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