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Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature From the Black Lagoon

Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature From the Black Lagoon

Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature From the Black Lagoon – from the Colgate Comedy Hour, Bud and Lou do a haunted house routine. And they literally meet The Creature from the Black Lagoon — for roughly.2 seconds.

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For those who don’t know, Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature From the Black Lagoon is not a movie. It’s simply a sketch on The Colgate Comedy Hour, where Bud Abbott & Lou Costello are guests. They’re supposedly visiting the prop department to borrow some items for their appearance on the Colgate Comedy Hour. In fact, the person working at the prop department is played by Bud’s nephew. While there, they do several haunted house routine bits, such as the moving candlestick. Of course, Bud is out of the room, and nobody else sees them.

After some funny comedy, the Frankenstein monster comes out, frightening Bud — who runs away through a prop wall! And Lou’s laughing — until the Creature from the Black Lagoon appears, ending the sketch.

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Buy from Amazon.com We all remember when Abbott and Costello met Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Dracula, the Invisible Man, The Mummy and even Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But do you remember when Abbott and Costello met The Creature? Yes, it really did happen, not on the big screen but on live television. On Sunday, February 21, 1954 Abbott and Costello hosted NBC’s Colgate Comedy Hour. In a live comedy sketch, devised to promote Universal’s newest monster, America witnessed the brief but memorable meeting of Abbott and Costello and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Ben Chapman plays “The Creature” and Glenn Strange as “The Frankenstein Monster”. Also starring Norman Abbott (nephew of Bud Abbott). BONUS: Trailers for Abbott and Costello’s monster films and Creature from the Black Lagoon films. NOTE: THIS IS NOT A COMPILATION OR A FULL LENGTH MOVIE, THIS IS A TV SHOW.


Gene Wesson hosts with guests Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, skater Sonja Henie, comic/singer Keefe Brasselle, with Carolyn Jones, Joyce Jameson, Michael Ross, Will J. White, Jud Conlon Singers, Norman Abbott, Glen Stangle, and announcer Hal Sawyer.

  • Wesson and Brasselle perform dueling impressions
  • a sketch depicts a mob-run coffee shop
  • Abbott and Costello encounter the Frankenstein Monster and the Gill Man in the Universal Studios’ prop room

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