Big Bird | Bob Hope's World of Comedy | October 29, 1976

Big Bird joins Bob Hope on his special, World of Comedy on October 29, 1976.
Big Bird greets Bob with "Gee, I thought I had a funny beak." Hope asks his feathered friend what kind of bird he is. After a Jack Benny-style "Well!" (with his wing on his cheek), Big Bird reveals that his mother was "a yellow-breasted hornswabble talking tiki", and his father "was a yellow-winged liver-lilied fender-bender." When asked by Bob what that made him, he replied "A chicken with a gland problem?" He also distracts his host by preening his feathers before the audience. Other jokes involve the absence of the NBC peacock, Colonel Sanders, Donald Duck, the Roadrunner, and how both Big Bird and Bob Hope "lay a lot of eggs."
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Bob Hope rose to the top of every medium he touched: headliner in Vaudeville, Broadway star, radio icon, movie idol and superstar on television. His persona reached audiences of every age in every decade of the 20 th century.
A popular star in Vaudeville, it was Broadway’s “Roberta” where Bob eventually caught the eyes of critics. In 1938, NBC signed him for a radio show that became a fixture in American homes. It wasn’t long before Paramount called on Bob. He went on to make 50+ feature films, including the hugely popular “Road Pictures” with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. In 1950, his TV career officially launched with “Star Spangled Revue.”
An accomplished man, Bob’s greatest legacy was his commitment to American service personnel. For nearly six decades, at war or at peace, “G.I. Bob” crossed the globe with 57 USO tours for troops in WW II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. In the history of show business, no one traveled so far, so often, to entertain so many.
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Great stuff. Two of the greatest.