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William Alexander "Bud" Abbott (October 2, 1897 [a] – April 24, 1974) was an American comedian, actor and producer. He was best known as the straight man half of the comedy duo Abbott and Costello .
Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work in radio, film, and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and 1950s, and the highest-paid entertainers in the world during the Second World War.
Costello offered Abbott a larger split of their salary, and Abbott agreed. At the end of 1941, Costello insisted that the team split their income 60/40 in Costello's favor, and Abbott agreed. [10] Abbott and Costello appeared in 36 films from 1940 to 1956 and were among the most popular and highest-paid entertainers in the world during World ...
Bud and Lou find a job in Mr. Fields' brother's drugstore and wreck the place. Includes the "Jonah and the Whale" routine. First Appearances of Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Joe Besser, Sidney Fields, Gordon "Mike The Cop" Jones, Joe "Mr. Bacciagalupe" Kirk and Hillary Brooke
She appeared in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), in W.C. Fields’ My Little Chickadee (1940), and in Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s Comin’ Round the Mountain (1951), playing a nefarious ...
A variation using a frog instead of an oyster appears in another Abbott and Costello film, The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap. [7] This gag also appears in The Three Stooges' short subjects, Dutiful But Dumb (1941), Shivering Sherlocks (1948) and Income Tax Sappy (1954). Another routine, previously used in One Night in the Tropics, is "Jonah and ...
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were a comedy duo whose work in radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and 1950s.
Abbott's wife recalled him performing the routine with another comedian before teaming with Costello. [2] Bud Abbott stated that it was taken from an older routine called "Who's the Boss?", [1] a performance of which can be heard in an episode of the radio comedy program It Pays to Be Ignorant from the 1940s. [3]