Here, is an excerpt from the work. Viewers of The Tonight Show during the 1970s and '80s might have assumed that Bob Hope was one of Johnny Carson's favorite guests. No one appeared on the show ...

Comedian Bob Hope during an interview with host Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show on Sept. 5, 1980 | NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images In Richard Zoglin’s 2014 book about the late ...

Johnny Carson was no different, and he carried an ego and status that could make it difficult for any guest that didn't gel with Carson. Bob Hope fit that category according to the book Hope ...

Hope’s running gag got old, even to the Tonight Show host. “One of those who grew tired of the routine was Johnny Carson,” Zoglin wrote. To Johnny Carson, Bob Hope was simply “not a good ...

Being friends with Bob Hope could be a heady, weirdly public experience. Dick Cavett, who got to know Hope while writing for Johnny Carson and later as host of his own talk show, was watching Late ...

Johnny Carson, who in three decades as host of ... When Carson announced his retirement in 1991, another comedy legend, Bob Hope, said it was “sort of like a head falling off Mt.