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    • On October 20, 1978 Bob guested on the daily daytime program "AM Zap" hosted by Bob Zappe. Also appearing on the show with Bob Hope were plant expert Jerry Baker and Nanci Glass with Broadway star Gay Marshall.

    • On June 27, 1956 Bob guested on the nighttime television program The Amazing Dunninger.

    • On June 19, 1956 Bob guested on the daytime television series "Home" hosted by Arlene Francis, other guests were Hermione Gingold and Sylvia Sidney.

    • On April 9, 1950 Star Spangled Revue Bob Hope's First TV Special with guests Dinah Shore, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Beatrice Lillie. (90 minutes)

    • On May 28, 1967 on the Chicago based talk show Kup's Corner, Bob Hope almost lost his cool in this one, screened originally on Chicago's WBKB. Irv Kupcinet hosts with guests Fred Friendly, Bob Hope and actor Robert Morley, with a heated verbal battle on Vietnam between hawkish Hope and dove-like Morley.

    • On January 1, 1965 appeared on the television special Little Big Show for March of Dimes featuring Bob Hope, David Janssen, Lena Horne, Robert Taylor among others.

    • On April 7, 1971 Bob guested on the Royal Gala Special taped at a benefit performance for the World Wildlife Fund which took place before an audience of European royalty at the Talk of the Town in London's West End. Rex Harrison hosted with special performances by Bob Hope, Petula Clark, Rudolf Nureyev, Tom Jones, George Kirby.

    • On May 24, 1973 Bob Hope appeared on the ABC Special "The White House Salute to the POW's" with Bob Hope, James Stewart, John Wayne, Sammy Davis Jr. and others join President Richard Nixon at the gala reception.

    • On October 14, 1951 Bob Hope guested on the premiere of "Sound-Off Time" with Dinah Shore, Jack Dempsey and Jerry Colonna.

    • On December 15, 1993 Bob Hope guested on the "John & Leeza From Hollywood" show also starring the Pointer Sisters.

    • On August 20, 1955 Bob made a Radio appearance on The Magic of Music with tunes from his "Seven Little Foys".

    • On April 1, 1962 Bob appeared on the television special "At This Very Moment" with Burt Lancaster hosting this one-hour benefit for the American Cancer Society and the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation. Entertaining will be an all-star cast featuring Bob Hope,Harry Belafonte, Jimmy Durante, Connie Francis, Greer Garson, Rock Hudson, Charlton Heston, Lena Home, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas and others.

    • Bob Hope walked into the Vogue Club on West 57th Street, where a sultry nightclub singer from the Bronx named Dolores Reade was singing "It's Only a Paper Moon". He married Dolores in 1934 and for 69 years until his death, were together.
    • Bob Hope was the first to sing Ira Gershwin's "I Can't Get Started," Cole Porter's "DeLovely," plus "Two Sleepy People," "Silver Bells," "Buttons and Bows" and "Thanks for the Memory," which won the Oscar as best song in his debut film, "The Big Broadcast of 1938," and promptly became his theme song in 59 unbroken years under contract to NBC.
    • "When you're an innovator, and you get old, people forget that you're an innovator, you know?" Jay Leno says in "100 Years of Hope and History," a two-hour retrospective to be broadcast tonight on NBC, 53 years to the month after Mr. Hope's television debut on Easter Sunday, 1950. "And there's a whole generation of people that just remember Bob Hope as `Didn't he used to do some shows for the soldiers?' And they forget. I mean, he's probably the greatest American entertainer of the 20th century."
    • Bob Hope USO Show began in 1948. Bob Hope began a Christmas tradition of touring overseas military bases, eventually filming these shows for television.
    • Bob Hope's Christmas Special of January 15th, 1970 is number 12 on the Most Watched Television Broadcasts List with 37 million viewers and featured Connie Stevens and astronaut Neil Armstrong on the Around the World with the USO theme.
    • In 1997 an act of Congress was signed by President Bill Clinton naming Bob Hope an "Honorary Veteran."
    • Author John Steinbeck and World War II War Correspondent wrote of Bob Hope's USO shows: "When the time for recognition of service to the nation in wartime comes to be considered, Bob Hope should be high on the list. This man drives himself and is driven. It is impossible to see how he can do so much, can cover so much ground, can work so hard, and can be so effective. He works month after month at a pace that would kill most people."
    • Bob Hope became a U.S. citizen in 1920 at the age of seventeen.

    • On September 11, 1963 President John F. Kennedy presented Bob Hope with the Congressional Medal of Honor. The medal reads, "Bob Hope Humorist, Humanitarian, Patriot Presented to Bob Hope by President Kennedy in recognition of his having rendered outstanding service to the cause of Democracy throughout the world."

    • President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Bob Hope The Presidential Medal of Freedom on his final day in office. Bob Hope's citation noted that, "With his gifts of joy to all the American people, he has written his name large in the history of our times."
    • The Bob Hope Pepsodent Radio Show was the first to broadcast from the Hollywood Canteen on October 13, 1942. Frances Langford sang "At Last". Bette Davis and Bob Hope share friendly banter. Bandleader Skinnay Ennis performs "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo". Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague do a skit. Bob closes with "Thanks for the Memories".
    • President Bush after the passing of lengendary entertainer Bob Hope said, "Bob Hope made us laugh, and he lifted our spirits. Bob Hope served our nation. He went to battlefields to entertain thousands of troops from different generations. We extend our prayers to his family, and we will mourn the loss of a good man. May God bless his soul."
    • Bob Hope was known to visit "Bob's Big Boy" on sleepless nights when he would ask his driver to take him there. He would have a coffee and talk with the customers.
    • In April of 2003, one of Bob Hope's stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was rededicated so to read 'Citizen of the Century', and the corner of Hollywood and Vine dedicated as the Bob Hope Square.
    • Bob Hope is credited with discovering singer Tony Bennett in 1949 when Bob Hope noticed him working with Pearl Bailey in Greenwich Village in New York City.
    • Bob Hope made his final film appearance in John Landis' 1985 film Spies Like Us, in a cameo appearance.
    • Bob Hope was the recipient of Kennedy Center Honors in 1985 along with other recipients which included Irene Dunne, Beverly Sills, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Lowe and Merce Cunningham.
    • On October 29, 1961 NBC aired a special The World of Bob Hope narrated by Alexander Scourby. It was the first in a series of specials about prominent Americans.
    • Bob Hope's first Overseas USO show to be broadcast to the United States was telecast on The Colgate Comedy Hour on January 9, 1955. Filmed at Goose Air Base in Labrador and Thule Air Base in Greenland.
    • On December 7, 1954 The Bob Hope Show was telecast from London, England, it was his first TV special broadcast from the land of his birth 51 years prior.
    • On March 27, 1955 Bob Hope appeared on "Entertainment 1955" with Helen Hayes, Judy Holliday, Cesar Romero, Dinah Shore, Fred Allen and others. The program included excerpts from a Broadway play, comedy sketch and music for the opening of NBC-TV's Color City in Burbank, California.
    • In 1998 The New York Times accidentaly printed a Pre-obituary for Bob Hope.
    • Bob Hope appeared in a K-Mart commercial that aired in 1997.
    • Bob Hope was a long-time friend of Bing Crosby. This may seem strange, considering they would continually bash each other on their shows. They would insult each other for laughs.
    • Bob Hope received the 1963 Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Broadcasters, usually given to industry pioneers and developers.
    • Bob Hope was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
    • Bob's height is 5' 11½".
    • Bob Hope is in The Guinness Book of Records as the Most Honored Entertainer and The World's Guinness Book of Records as the Most Decorated Entertainer.
    • At 69 years, Bob's marriage to Dolores Hope holds the record for the longest Hollywood marriage.
    • In 1997, Congress named Bob an honorary U.S. veteran, citing his decades of entertaining troops around the world. He is the only person to receive that distinction.
    • Bob was the Grandfather of actress Leslie Hope.
    • In 1999, Bob became the first to start the tradition of the official lighting of the Christmas Tree in Disneyland. Afterwards, he and Dolores drove their own golf cart down Main Street, through Frontier Land to Club 33 for dinner.
    • Bob graduated from Fairmount High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
    • Bob's first show business job was as a dancer in the 'Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle' vaudeville review in Cleveland in 1924.
    • Bob spent his 99th birthday 29 May 2002, at home in Toluca Lake, CA. Wife Dolores's 93rd birthday was just two day before. Los Angeles National Cemetery dedicated veterans' chapel in his name to salute his lifetime of service entertaining U.S. troops.
    • Bob has two theaters named after him, one in London and another in California.
    • Bob was honored on the 'Dean Martin' Celebrity Roasts in 1974.
    • Bob's wife Dolores was born May 27, 1909. She and Bob celebrated their birthdays on May 28th every year, splitting the difference between their respective real birthdays.
    • Bob was appointed an honorary CBE in 1976.
    • Bob change his name from Leslie to Bob, because in school they would call the roll as 'Hope, Leslie' and classmates shortened it to "Hopeless."
    • Bob's golf buddy was Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of presidents George Bush and George W. Bush.
    • Bob received 58 honorary degrees.
    • Bob holds two entries in The Guinness Book of World Records. One is for having the distinction of being the entertainer with "the longest running contract with a single network - spanning sixty-one years". The second is for being the "most honored entertainer", with over 1500 awards.
    • In the 1950s, Bob was a part-owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. His guest appearance in I Love Lucy (1951) centered around his attending a Yankees-Indians game at Yankee Stadium.
    • Bob's first big part in the Broadway version of Roberta in 1933.
    • Bob entertained the troops overseas in every war from WWII to the Gulf War with the USO.
    • Bob and his wife had four adopted children: Eleanora "Nora" Avis, Anthony, Linda and Kelly.
    • Bob was married to Dolores Hope from February, 1934 until his death in July, 2003.
    • Bob is the most honored entertainer ever.
    • Bob never received an Oscar.
    • Bob has 4 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
    • Bob has hosted the Academy Awards a record 16 times.

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