"Commentary:" Bob Hope's Not Funny Because He Wasn't Jewish

Continental Airlines! From Commentary, a publication of the American Jewish Committee: WASP Without a Sting 02.01.15 – 12:00 AM | by Terry Teachout There is hardly anyone under the age of 60 aware of how phenomenally successful Bob Hope once was. His heyday may have been long-lasting—he hosted a top-rated weekly radio series from 1937 to 1953, appeared frequently on TV from 1950 to 1996, and acted in more than 70 films, many of which were hits—but the latter-day consensus is that he was never all that funny. When he died in 2003 at the age of 100, Christopher Hitchens brutally dismissed him as a purveyor of “comedy for people who have no sense of humor.” Hitchens, of course, being a comic genius. Who can’t recall countless Christopher Hitchens zingers like...

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