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Who’s on First: Collection Routines from 1940’s by Abbott & Costello is actually a recording of the Abbott and Costello radio show. Which, for the record, I’m a large fan of. It’s at least as funny as their famous television series.
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October 11, 2020 Tom Raymond
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originally published in TV Guide (November 1-7, 1958) LOU COSTELLO PLAYS IT STRAIGHT Veteran Comic Goes Dramatic in Television Western By Dan Jenkins Lou Costello, the short, rotund , butt-end of one of the entertainment worldâs longest running (22 years) comedy teams, Is working as a single these...
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December 28, 2013 Tom Raymond
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Originally published in Radio and Television Mirror, July 1948 Is Lou Costello on the level? Is Lou’s Foundation run from the heart … or for the publicity? The answer is in the facts, and here they are
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December 28, 2013 Tom Raymond
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Movie Life (June 1943) The Navy Gets a Laugh Ration VOTED KINGS of the box-office for 1942, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello prove themselves Princes of Good Fellows by clowning till it hurt. Costello went into the hospital after seven weeks.
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December 28, 2013 Tom Raymond
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Originally published in “Twenty Complete Stories – New Players and Old Hollywood” June 1942 The Care and Feeding of Abbott & Costello Life is smooth for Abbott and Costello. Professionally they’re sitting on top of the world and domestically they’re in the hands of two super-efficient housewives -...
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December 28, 2013 Tom Raymond
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Fred Allen’s Heirs: Costello and Abbott Given Summer Spot (originally published in Newsweek – July 1, 1940) With Fred Allen leaving the air this week. * Ipana-Sal Hepatica decided to cut its NBC Red network time from an hour to a half hour (still starting at 9 o’clock EDT...
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December 28, 2013 Tom Raymond
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(originally published in TV Forecast and Guide, March 7, 1953) One of the worst kept secrets in show business a few years back was the backstage feuding of the top comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It seemed hard to believe that the finely balanced pair could be...
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March 10, 2012 Tom Raymond
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Introduction to Abbott and Costello, one of the greatest comedy teams of all time Abbott and Costello was a legendary comedy team, consisting of Bud Abbott, the tall, thin straight man, and Lou Costello, the short, pudgy comic. They were famous for their rapid-fire verbal exchanges, and Costello’s...
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March 9, 2012 Tom Raymond
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Bud Abbott: the man everyone forgot (originally published in Screen Stories, June 1960) Gray-haired Bud Abbott stared bleakly out of his breakfast-room window, at the brown, untended lawn and grounds of his Encino, California home. Although it was past noon, he still wore his bedroom slippers, pajamas and...
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March 9, 2012 Tom Raymond
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(originally published in Journal of Living, January 1954) Lou Costello: My Cure For Sorrow, As told to Vivian Cosby A funny man’s prescription for grief that can work for everyone as it has for him. “Why did this have to happen to me?” A few years ago, when...
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March 9, 2012 Tom Raymond
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