Bob Hope started out on the vaudeville circuit ... So he has all these writers churning out hundreds of jokes. Was Hope himself funny? I thought about that a lot as I was writing the book.

People have called Bob Hope the “Entertainer of the 20th Century,” and he was no less than a titan of Old Hollywood. But behind the scenes of Hope’s family-friendly career is a life of ...

Here's the funny part: because people didn't recognize this one-of-a-kind creation, they started calling it the "Bob Hope ...