Skip to content
Abbott and Costello talk about Lou's new dog, a Christmas present from Mrs. Niles - from the Abbott and Costello radio show

Abbott and Costello talk about Lou’s new dog

Abbott and Costello talk about Lou’s new dog, a Christmas present from Mrs. Niles – from the Abbott and Costello radio show

(From Abbott and Costello’s radio show, December 30, 1943)
Lou Costello: Oh, Abbott, the worst thing just happened to me!
Bud Abbott: No!
Lou Costello: Yeah, Mrs. Niles gave me a dog for a Christmas present, and the dog just took a great big bite out of me!
Bud Abbott: Where did he bite you?
Lou Costello: Well, if I’d have been wearing a license plate, he’d have gotten the last three numbers.

The Best of Abbott and Costello volume 4 - The Franchise Collection - 6 classics - Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops - Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy - The World of Abbott and Costello - Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld - Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters

The Best of Abbott and Costello volume 4

Buy from Amazon.com  Simply put, a collection of the Abbott and Costello films, starring Bud Abbott and the con-man straight man, partner to his pal, the comedian Lou Costello.   The DVD includes the 6 films (click the titles for individual reviews):

Comin' Round the Mountain, starring Abbott and Costello, Dorothy Shay, Margaret Hamilton

Comin’ Round the Mountain

Comin’ Round the Mountain, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello – where they get in the middle of a long-standing feud!

The Noose Hangs High - Bud Abbott and Lou Costello - DVD cover

The Noose Hangs High

‘The Noose Hangs High‘ (1948) starring Abbott and Costello — one of their independent films, where they accidentally get on the wrong side of gangsters …

TV Guide - Lou Costello plays it straight

Lou Costello plays it straight

originally published in TV Guide (November 1-7, 1958)

LOU COSTELLO PLAYS IT STRAIGHT
Veteran Comic Goes Dramatic in Television Western
By Dan Jenkins

TV Guide - Lou Costello plays it straightLou Costello, the short, rotund , butt-end of one of the entertainment world’s longest running (22 years) comedy teams,  Is working as a single these days and gratifying the hidden desire of every baggy-pants comic— he is playing it straight.

Lou Costello Jr. Youth Foundation

Is Lou Costello on the level?

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

The Navy Gets a Laugh Ration

Movie Life  
(June 1943)

The Navy Gets a Laugh Ration

The Navy gets a Laugh RationFRESH LITTLE Costello showed no more respect for sick sailors than he did for gold braid. “Git up outa dere!” he told boys. They loved it.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.

Betty and Bud Abbott eating

The Care and Feeding of Abbott & Costello

Lou Costello - breaking through a drum in Rio RitaBud Abbott - breaking through a drum in Rio RitaOriginally 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 -€“ Mrs. Abbott and Mrs. Lou Costello.

It’€™s no slander against Betty Abbott and Ann Costello to classify them as the second-best managers in their respective households; merely an acknowledgment of the superior skill of their mates. They don’€™t have to try.

Costello, the small soprano apple dumpling of the comedy team, the guy who can’t get anything right on the screen of over the microphone, is a managerial genius in private life.