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***My Life in Jokes*

by Bob Hope

with Linda Hope

Reviewed June 17, 2003.
Hyperion, New York, 2003. 206 pages.

The idea behind this book seems perfectly appropriate for Bob Hope’s 100th birthday. Instead of a standard biography, this is a chronological selection of jokes he’s used down through the years. I admit, most of the jokes were probably funnier in the time for which they were written. I found the ones most amusing that were actually written in my lifetime (a minority). However, it’s a nice twist on the typical autobiography, and seemed especially fitting in this case.