Bob Hope Pranks To CNN And "Good Day Live"

 

Philadelphia Daily News
Tue, Jul. 29, 2003

Captain Janks snookered CNN (again), yesterday calling in claiming
to be a Bob Hope joke-writer, reeling them in and then blurting an
off-color reference to Howard Stern. When will news organizations
verify before they put people on the air

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DCRTV
7/29/03

Stern Prankster Hits CNN, Fox -

7/29 - Howard Stern
show prankster Captain Janks
struck twice yesterday during coverage of
Bob Hope's death. The Philadelphia-based
Janks called CNN claiming to be a Hope
joke writer. Once on the air, he blurted an
off-color reference to Stern. He also called
Fox's "Good Day Live," which is aired live
at noon on Baltimore's Channel 24 and tape delayed at
1 PM on DC's Channel 5. According to News Blues,
Janks, also claiming to be a writer for Hope, asked the
LA show's host Steve Edwards: "Would you like
Howard Stern's balls on your chin?" Edwards abruptly
ended the interview, but not before Janks called him a
"jerkoff." Stern's radio show is heard locally on
WJFK-FM and WXYV.....

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Vol. 9, No. 2147 - The American Reporter - July 29, 2003

"Thanks For the Memories!"
Bob Hope 1903 - 2003

Passings

AMERICA'S COMEDIAN, BOB HOPE, IS DEAD AT 100
by Joe Shea American Reporter Correspondent Bradenton, Fla.

BRADENTON, Fla., July 28, 2003 -- Bob Hope, whose century of life
was a long string of wisecracks and a longer string of friends high
and low, passed away last night in Toluca Lake, Calif., his legacy of
gales of laughter and good memories likely to linger a century more.

"Today America lost a great citizen,. We mourn the passing of Bob
Hope," President George W. Bush said on Air Force One this morning.
"We mourn the loss of a good man. May God bless his soul."

"It's a very sad moment, but it's something that brings back all the
memories he lived for. If he was listening, he'd want people to be
laughing," said his longtime friend and fellow golfer, Arnold Palmer,
in Rancho Mirage, Calif., where a major artery - Bob Hope Drive - and
a major golf event, the Bob Hope Desert Pro-Am Classic, is named after
the comedian.

"He passed peacefully, with his wife at his side," said Hope's
granddaughter, Miranda Hope on CNN this morning. Hope's wife, Dolores
Hope, is a former entertainer with a lifelong role in Hope's
globe-trotting career.

At the end of a life that was mostly spent on stage, Hope bowed out
with more than 1,500 honors, 50 honorary doctorates and four Oscars.
Born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, England, he moved to the United
States when he was three, and even as a child wanted
to go onstage - and also box. He changed his name to Bob at the ageof
21 to better connect with his audience. His life spanned every form of
media from vaudeville to the Internet, and he didn't give up boxing
until his career took off. He could have had a career in golf.

"He was able to take a small thing and turn it around," said a man who
identified himself to CNN as Gene Perret, who wrote for Hope for 40 years.
"He would turn it around and make it funny." The man turned out to be an
impersonator from the Howard Stern Show, who made an off-color
comment and was yanked off the air. Hope would have loved it.

Thanks for the memories, sir.

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