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Ken Carpenter introduces Bob Hope.
Playlist:
- Bob Christmas command hope shares a poetic rating with the troops. His jokes include food, presence, craters, scotch, Hollywood space and soldiers lifestyles of peace and goodwill. Other topics include traffic, Christmas shopping, kids on elevators, credit department stores, department store Santas and long lines at the post office.
- St. James infirmary blues (kay Kaiser and his band)
- Jimmy Durante is on hand to joke with Bob, and tell jokes about their noses. They tell about giving and receiving at Christmas time. Jimmy continues talking about his mishaps with Santa Claus. Jimmy sings about a song that’s missing a note, and old-fashioned dances.
- Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C Marshall shares a Christmas greeting from Washington DC
- Francis Langford shares Christmas wishes to several GI’S serving overseas before she sings, night and day.
- Archie, from Duffy’s Tavern fame, talks with Bob about a pigeon with two heads. The two-headed bird causes problems for a guerrilla of a baseball player on Duffy’s team.
- Great day (Nelson any)
- Chloe (Spike Jones in the city Slickers)
you’ll never know (Ginny Sims) - Sec. of the Navy, Frank Knox delivers a message of peace for a war-torn world.
- Ride red ride (The charioteers)
- Kay Kaiser joints Bob to talk about Hollywood gossip, starlets and pinup girls. Ish Kabibble joins them to talk about dating, and puts a poetic end to the conversation.
- Kay Kaiser plates, and his singers performed, paper doll.
- Kaye Kaiser announces a short one-act play, featuring sound effects from back home. A San Francisco foghorn, a train passing through the countryside, the sound of scotch and soda being mixed, the sound of a newborn baby crying, a cocker spaniel barking, a cow being milked.
- Secretary of War, and retail steps in delivers a Christmas message in the midst of war.
- Summertime (Dinah Shore)
- kay Kaiser brings Bob Hope back out to introduce Jack Betty and Fred Allen. The four men swap insoles about being middle-aged, and being miserly. With the insults flying, Bob and Katie leave the stage for Jack and Fred to take over. \The friendly rivals turn their attention to making movies and their old vaudeville days. They sing a spoof of the Oklahoma hit, people will say we’re in love.
- Bob shares a few encouraging words about an American Christmas back home. Then the singers in today’s show gather for a Christmas Carol Medley. Joy to the world, oh come all ye faithful, heart the Herald Angels Sing, O Little town of Bethlehem, Silent Night.
