was thinking about the Oscars, and really would have liked to see old clips of Bob Hope and Johnny Carson. Bob Hope is considered the King of the Oscars. What was it about Bob Hope? "He has hosted 19 times either solo or as a team, even before the Oscars were even broadcast on television. For a long time, it was just assumed that Hope would host, and only if he had conflicts would they ask someone else."
Here are his most-quoted jokes:
1955 "The winners will take home an Oscar. The losers will all be presented with monogramed do-it-yourself suicide kits."
1960 “There’s a lot of pictures half shot. One Western picture is hung up and it’s quite a situation. There’s 150 Indians crouched behind a boulder at Corganville, and no one has told them that John Wayne isn’t coming.”
1968 "Welcome to the Academy Awards, or as they're known at my house, Passover."
And at the end in 1968 “I’ve never seen six hours whiz by so fast.” No year given “I think they ought to give me an Oscar just for attendance, don’t you?”
And they did: Bob Hope received 5 honorary Oscars for his service to the film industry. | 
