The Laugh Makers, Robert L. Mills Foreword by Gary Owens
The Laugh Makers, Robert L. Mills Foreword by Gary Owens
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The Laugh Makers
A Behind-the-Scenes Tribute to Bob Hope's Incredible Gag Writers

Author: Robert L. Mills; Foreword by Gary Owens

Narrator: Robert L. Mills

Unabridged: 11 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Joe Bevilacqua

Published: 05/01/2013


Synopsis

InThe Laugh Makers, Bob Mills takes us on a delightful, side-splitting journey back to the slapstick sketch comedy of televisions golden agea long-ago era of variety, song-and-dance, brilliant patter, and a seemingly endless parade of laughssprung from the genius of gag men, that talented group of wit-blessed wordsmiths to whom the book pays well-deserved homage.The Laugh Makersis a priceless collection of heretofore unpublished recollections revealing untold secrets and goings-on behind the scenes on theBob Hope Showfrom Stockholm to Bora Bora, London to Peking. Its jam-packed with stories [and] anecdotes, his guest stars, and his writersall from a fondly remembered past that will have you chuckling from start to finish. Bob Mills is well qualified to salute the famous corps of gag men who kept the comedian knee-deep in jokes. These firsthand recollections summon up the final phase of Hopes career?and the end of the trail for an entire brand of show business.Gary Owens,Rowan & Martins Laugh-In

Reviews

Great Behind-The-Scenes Look At Writing For Bob Hope Bob Mills wrote jokes and sketches for Bob Hope for over 20 years , from the 70s through the 90s, and he has a lot of great stories to tell. In this book you’ll find out, among other things, why Hope loved working with Loni Anderson but hated worki......more

Goodreads review by Bob

Everyone likes Bob Hope, and I enjoyed his movies when I was a young kid. This was a behind the scenes view of the dozens of people who worked full time to write his one-liners. The jokes are not as funny as you would hope they would be, and Bob Hope is not as much fun in real life as he was in kids......more

Goodreads review by W.

This book has some informational gems in it, but you have to go on a journey to get to them. The narrative is a slow and winding weave of memories. You can actually hear the narrator turn the pages of his script in the audio book version. The author recounts his post on Bob Hope's staff with bits ab......more

Maybe I didn't read the description well enough. But I was expecting this to be from a writer who had worked with Hope in his glory days. Instead, Bob Mills join Hope's staff in the 70s. So the ancedotes are mostly from tv specials. I usually devour Hollywood behind the scenes books like this but it......more