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Article: Wednesday, Aug. 6; What did it feel like to be Bob Hope?(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
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- August 11, 2003
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Byline: Joe Hagan
Wednesday, Aug. 6
What did it feel like to be Bob Hope?
"You feel invulnerable," said Dave Thomas, the 54-year-old founding member of the legendary comedy troupe Second City, and the pre-eminent impersonator of Bob Hope for the last 20-odd years. "You have to adopt his confidence and you know you've got the gags. These gags are going to kill because I know how to make them kill. You're kind of bulletproof."
A week after his subject died at age 100, Mr. Thomas, the man who played the beer-besotted Doug McKenzie in the 1983 Canadian sendup Strange Brew, called The Observer from Los Angeles to talk about it. It was the ...