Love the switcheroo. So funny and creative. They did not miss a beat. Not really. It all fit in well. Love the story. Love the cast. Lucy so funny 😂😂😂

The great nephew of Charley Cooley (Hooks) loves Bob Hope. Hello from Cleveland!

"Alright break it up, let's not over do it."😂 LOL This is Hilarious!!

L💖ve Bob & would love to see these old show come back on the air more one of the best classic episodes 💖💖💖💖

Bob Hope and Lucy..made movies together..they were great friends...that is how things got started...Desi ..then took it from there..making millions..Desilu Productions...desi and Lucille...(Lucy)....I Love Lucy..made them millions....fame and money...hand in hand...Rip Desi and Lucy....we do miss you both...

He didn't leave me any balls, lol🤣🤣😆

Alright break it up lets not overdo it.-- that was funny!!!!😂

At 11:58, it cuts to Ricky(Bob Hope) walking over to open the closet door, it cuts out what Fred(Desi) says to Ricky(Bob) to get him up & over there to open that door.. someone's got some 'splainin' to do

The seal's name should have been Lou. Lou Seal.... get it?

@MarvinParksAmericanJazzSinger

7 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha

@grant4176

6 жыл бұрын

Ron H lol

@Sam53148

6 жыл бұрын

Its jokes like that, that killed Vaudeville

@TheBee87bee

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sam53148 heeheehee

@MarvinParksAmericanJazzSinger

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sam53148 LOL

That’s pretty good ! Brought back good memories

you can hear Ricky say I should have never left CBS LOL

@crmay72

2 жыл бұрын

Do you have the timestamp for that?

@bbyp0ppa

2 жыл бұрын

@@crmay72 10:51

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

Yea we all did. That was part of the gag because Bob Hope was with NBC for his entire career; a total of 58 years with the same network. First on radio then on television. Desi and Lucy were with CBS and when this aired, they had the top rated show on television. In fact, they were number one for 4 of its 6 seasons. They were third in the first season and in 1955 they were beat out by The 64,000 Question.

This was very funny. Role reversal & unexpected. Not lame at all.

Lucy did the same "seal playing the horn" act in the I Love Lucy pilot.

@bobbygoode

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure writer Madelyn Pugh acted it out to make sure it would work.

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

Not only in the pilot, but also on their road show to convince CBS to do the show as well as in one episode of I Love Lucy.

The problem with bob hope he was trying to be funny..... Some of his jokes were funny but desi was 10 times funnier

National I Love Lucy Day!

Like baseball. this was CBS paying off NBC agreement to lend Bob Hope to CBS appearance on I Love Lucy

Lucy got jealous of viv 💋 Kissing desi

that "be a good sport" humor

We love you lucy😘

This is so great! I loved it! Thanks for posting :)

did i just hear bob say a "wetback luau"?

"...you're trying to tell me something..."

Thank you soo much for uploading this!

I love this. Thanks ever so.

I wonder who wrote this skit? Bob Hope writers or Desilu writers?

Those were the days of great tv. Back in the 50's..God I miss those..clean tv shows...it was good family fun...look at the crap now days...blood and guns and crap....not worth a damn...

Desi published a book...in it..his family goes back generations of Cuban descendants..and political agenda in Cuba way before Castro...(100 yrs)..before..too!

William Frawly is obviously missing here. Where is he at this point?

Now you see what "I Love Lucy" would've looked like if CBS had their way to move the Arnazes to NYC to televise live and kinnie for the West. BTW, Desilu was nice to provide the actual set's decor elements - but note the wider panels by the entry door - gives the apartment more space...those shadows are killer --

@Mikerojo1985

7 жыл бұрын

Plus NBC, ABC and DUMONT network we're interested in the show. So it would of most likely been on kinescope on one of those networks most likely like this on kinescope if CBS had not picked up the show.

@MarvinParksAmericanJazzSinger

5 жыл бұрын

@@Mikerojo1985 would have*

Love all these takeoffs especially of I Love Lucy. She took the mickey out of her own show but she would go on to work with Bob in Fancy Pants & The Facts Of Life. Has to ask the question why we all have to leave this life for whatever is beyond. We fall in love with these wonderful people like we know them but they leave us....with great memories of shows like this. Bob got to 100 & he was great & sadly Lucy was the last to go of the 4 of them. No-one lives forever I guess, this is the sad truth. Long live Lucy.

@crmay72

2 жыл бұрын

I know right?? Thank God for re-runs and especially KZread in this day and age. It's like a time machine!

@gregwatson8219

2 жыл бұрын

Desi too!!

Where they any other TV shows than the Bob Hope one where the I love Lucy cast played in ? thx

@brianoneill7186

4 жыл бұрын

Lucy and Desi were on Make Room For Daddy

@maddyhayes617

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianoneill7186 danny and tv family were on lucy desidy comedy hour.

😂 😂 😂!

why is ricky a random guy while fred (william; not present) is ricky? (desi)

@brianoneill7186

4 жыл бұрын

Google Bob Hope.

What a scandal. Ethyl refers to their "bed", not "beds".

@christine3043

3 ай бұрын

It was referred to in I Love Lucy too. They showed her and Fred in bed. They also showed Lucy and Desi. It was brief, but it happened.

I feel like Bob Hope uses his humour to make a few subtle digs at Desi. given that Bob and Lucy were good friends and Desi wasn't quiet about his cheating I wonder if this was his way of getting something back

@michaelweber8724

8 жыл бұрын

Well Hope wasn't particularly faithful to Dolores, so he was no one to talk.

@FerdinandCesarano

7 жыл бұрын

Hope was friends with Desi, too. Desi had been the bandleader on Hope's radio show.

@iluvcorona77

6 жыл бұрын

It's just a show. Not real. Bob Hope and Lucille Ball were great friends. Of course they all were.

@frankporto9938

5 жыл бұрын

Clair u a complete nut it's a skit hope was good friends with Desi and Lucy.People like u read so much into a simple comedy routine.Take ure medication quick

@csu3524

4 жыл бұрын

@Laura Streeter ....why? It happens all the time. Especially, in Hollywood!😜

What year was this?

@disneycouple5796

7 жыл бұрын

1aikane 1956

@sardu55

7 жыл бұрын

1956

@iLoveBoysandBerries

2 жыл бұрын

1982

Did William Frawley really have a broken leg?

The picture quality of the kinescope is awful.

@colorfullyblue

3 жыл бұрын

Well it was 1956.

@Tmanaz480

2 жыл бұрын

Just like all kinescopes. Good demonstration of why ILL was shot on film.

@phxmateo

2 жыл бұрын

@@colorfullyblue Yet ILL was filmed on movie quality film and the rerun was conceived and incubated.

No FRED??

@valeweathers

7 жыл бұрын

Ken M keep watching

@lilyemmalindsay9025

6 жыл бұрын

Desi played Fred. William Frawley played the captain.

Lucys voice was so normal and nice here. WHen she got older she sounded like a man with that deep voice

@lilyemmalindsay9025

6 жыл бұрын

Harpervalley Peeteeay Lucy probably ruined her voice from smoking.

@MoonDreamofA

5 жыл бұрын

She pitched her voice for the show. She's gone on record saying that she had to sound "younger" because her voice was already a tinge low (as she was an older woman) and from the smoking. In other shows and later interviews, she spoke with her normal voice, which was also hoarse from smoking. That's why she sounded like "a man" later on.

@dr.phil-federalinspector6023

4 жыл бұрын

She smoked way to much..that is what killed her...cancer..from smoking..

was this considered funny back then??? seems lame. lucy was way funnier than this.....

@aintnothingliketheoldskool

11 ай бұрын

It's funnier than this stuff today in today's generation. Since you want to say something negative half of this stuff today is lame.

Was Bob supposed to be funny?

@MarvinParksAmericanJazzSinger

5 жыл бұрын

Jack Benny was actually funnier.

@lloydkline6946

4 жыл бұрын

Love bob hope humor

Wow -- this is horrible....*face palm*

Rascist sins 1 making fun of Desi's accent 2.making fun of Desi's laugh 3. Threatening Desi with immigration 4. Wet back joke 5. Acting as if he could go to Havana university. 6. Acting as if he could pull off playing babalu. 7. Pretending to be Latin. 8. Horrible at saying ay yay yay . 9. Even worse at saying si. Total sins:9 Punishment: Bob Hope's decapitated head on stick roasting in the eternal depths of hell.

@Pisti846

8 жыл бұрын

+Lorf Blackburn Desi Arnaz was of EUROPEAN descent so how can this be racist?

@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427

8 жыл бұрын

You're way too P.C. Grow up and laugh already!

@csu3524

6 жыл бұрын

Lord Blackburn ....Get over it. Desi did.

@gabeguzman

5 жыл бұрын

@@Pisti846 he's cuban to

@Pisti846

5 жыл бұрын

@@gabeguzman Oh yeah, a Cuban of Spanish descent. I have known quite a few in my lifetime. Cuba is like the US, a potpourri of peoples.

The shows back then really were rather flimsy. It didn't take that much to entertain people. Today's audiences are a bit more sophisticated.

@LJ-ht4zs

2 жыл бұрын

I could not stop laughing and have professional degrees. Their humor is classic. Can't think of any current shows that made me laugh this much

@christine3043

3 ай бұрын

More sophisticated? The few sitcoms that are left and the ones fie the last 20 years or so used canned laughter and had to tell the audience when to laugh. Plus, TV is full of garbage reality shows nowadays. No talent required for those.

They are all missed. " You're just returning from a wetback luao. Xcel culture must be having a kaniption.