Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Saturday, August 02, 2003
Thanks to Andy S. I found Christopher Hitchens's evisceration of Bob Hope. Let me repeat: as a corporate comedian, he was unfunny -- again I point to Andrew Ferguson's Weekly Standard piece, which sadly is not on the Web -- but that was in the last forty years of his career, and especially after his stints in Vietnam. In the radio years and the Road pictures he was funny, when his act was still reasonably fresh. Mark Steyn has said pretty much the same thing. Mr. Hitchens is on far stronger ground attacking idiot news hacks who write condescending encomiums out of thin air just to appease a public they despise.
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