Bob Hope's glory days were a bit before my time. I didn't become much aware of him until the later 60's, and I was repelled by his political stance. Accordingly, I did not find him funny in the least. It's kind of comparable to how I came to feel about Al Capp (although he was definitely a good cartoonist, and Li'l Abner could be quite enjoyable when it wasn't political).

So you could say I'm prejudiced against Bob Hope, and you'd be right. Due to this prejudice I have remained largely ignorant of whatever worthwhile contributions he made to the art of humour. After all, when I go to the video store I'm not going to pick out a Bob Hope movie to watch, am I?

Oh, well. I guess Bob Hope was prejudiced against leftist antiwar people and it created that old karmic backlash in return. That's the way it goes.

Anyway, he must have been a tenacious old guy, because not too many people live to 100. I hope he enjoyed his remarkable life to the fullest, but I'd still like to throw a pie in his face over the political stuff. Politics is like that, I'm afraid. It gets in the way of positive relating to people.

- LH