# Bob Hope dead at 100 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423 "2003-07-28T13:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/1 "2003-07-28T13:03:10Z")
Just heard it on the morning news. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/2 "2003-07-28T13:04:48Z")
Thanks for the memories. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/3 "2003-07-28T13:09:17Z")
Oh, jeepers. At least he made it past the 100 mark, unlike poor Lillian Gish. Ah, well. I never thought he was funny, but I’m sure he was a very nice man and had a lovely life. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/4 "2003-07-28T13:11:20Z")
One of my faves. On the Road to… USO That college football show ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/5 "2003-07-28T13:11:51Z")
I just heard, but haven’t found a link yet. While I found him humorous at times, the fact that he did so much for morale of soldiers during **four wars** is nothing short of admirable and amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Harli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/6 "2003-07-28T13:13:18Z")
What a year it has been for celebrity losses. He really was a great inspiration to many people. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/7 "2003-07-28T13:16:58Z")
> [@](#): > > I never thought he was funny A saw something on teevee not long ago that said his USO acts were “risqué”. The clip they showed was extremely tame by today’s standards. I try to catch his films when they are broadcast. He plays a good “hapless bumbler” with charming innocence. I guess I think of him as a more intelligent “Lou Costello” character who was always being taken advantage of my Bing Crosby’s “Abbot”. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/8 "2003-07-28T13:17:15Z")
The Christmas/New Year celebrity obit retrospectives are going to be crowded this year. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/9 "2003-07-28T13:29:05Z")
At his peak he was very funny, IMHO. Also he did TONS of USO shows over decades. It is sad he passed, but given his poor health the last year or so I think his quality of life had declined quite a bit. Godspeed Bob. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/10 "2003-07-28T13:30:35Z")
[Fox News story](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93061,00.html). ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/11 "2003-07-28T13:32:04Z")
Here’s a link to the story on [CBSNews.com](http://CBSNews.com): [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/27/national/main555724.shtml](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/27/national/main555724.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/12 "2003-07-28T13:39:39Z")
It’s all a matter of individual taste; I never liked Charlie Chaplin, either. But Bob Hope did an amazing amount of good work, and I’ve never heard any of his coworkers badmouth him. Very nice man, I’m sure, and an enviable life & career. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/13 "2003-07-28T13:43:49Z")
Painless Potter dead. ☹ RIP Bob. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/14 "2003-07-28T13:47:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*Thanks for the memories. \*\* I second that. [NBC link](http://www.nbc4.tv/entertainment/2361835/detail.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/15 "2003-07-28T13:53:21Z")
Oh Bob! 100 years was not enough. No more encores. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/16 "2003-07-28T14:27:40Z")
Liked him in a lot of things, but especially [Fancy Pants](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0042447) when I was a kid. Bye Bob. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![the\_O-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9f8e36/32.png) [@the\_O-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_O-man)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/17 "2003-07-28T14:38:03Z")
Thanks for the memor’y indeed… I saw him twice in person in the past couple of years. He was asleep in the passenger seat of the minivan his staff used to run errands. My coworkers and myself would gather at the one-way glass in our office and look at him sleeping in the van. I always thought he had an amazing wit and assumed he would just live forever… ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/18 "2003-07-28T14:40:01Z")
bob, Thanks for all the laughs, and thanks for the memories ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/19 "2003-07-28T14:46:20Z")
I heard he actually died months ago and they were keeping it quiet until after his hundredth birthday. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423/20 "2003-07-28T14:50:32Z")
He, Bing Crosby, and Heddy Lamar are now off on the road to eternity…I hope they have a fine trip. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-dead-at-100/191423.md?page=2)