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Bob Hope N.F.L. Monologue

Bob Hope N.F.L. Monologue

From His 1981 Special "Stand Up and Cheer For the NFL's 60th Year"


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Audio Original
Running Time
3 Mins.

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The eight-to-ten-minute topical monologue that began each show was Hope’s favorite segment on every TV special and the one to which he devoted the most care and preparation.

He had begun his career as a dancer in vaudeville but one night was asked by a theater owner to emcee when the regular one failed to show up.

He enjoyed it and soon began adding jokes to his introductions.  He eventually realized that the jokes were his strong suit and abandoned the dancing.

On television, he considered the monologue a hook with which he could snag viewers to keep them from channel surfing during the remainder of the show. Today, TV talk shows usually begin with a monologue for the same reason.

On a Hope special, the monologue that the viewer saw was a string of thirty to thirty-five gags — setups followed by punchlines — delivered rapidly. They covered the major news events of the day with particular emphasis on politics, sports, celebrities and pop culture. Though he was born in England, much of the material concerned how Americans lived.

This excerpt, from a 1981 special titled "Stand Up and Cheer for the NFL's 60th Year," addresses the topic of professional football and the wide popularity it had  attained.

The excerpt is analyzed and discussed in THE LAUGH MAKERS:  A Behind-the-Scenes Tribute to Bob Hope's Incredible Gag Writers (c) 2009 by Robert L. Mills and published by Bear Manor Media.com in both a print and audio version read by the author.


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