Abbott and Costello, Part 1

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The comedy team of Abbott and Costello created some of the most memorable sketches in history. Their perfectly balanced energy catapulted them from burlesque and vaudeville stages to radio, and eventually Hollywood.

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1:27.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseStopWorks.com.
1:37.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fron.
1:47.7	And I'm Tracy B. Wilson.
1:49.7	And back when we did our episode on Lucille Ball,
1:51.7	which is listeners may recall, was a sponsored episode brought to you by CNN.
1:55.7	On the short list of comedians that we proposed for that episode was Abbott and Costello.
2:00.7	We ended up going with Lucy, but I haven't been able to stop thinking about Bud and Lou ever since.
2:05.7	And I really wanted to talk about their story.
2:07.7	Yeah, we were not kidding. We were like, here is our giant list of people in comedy history.
2:12.7	We would love to talk about.
2:14.7	I have a long list of comedy people I would like to talk about.
2:17.7	So these were two men who really defined in many ways the comedy duo.
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