abbott and costello

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Definition of abbott and costello in English English dictionary: A famous American comedy duo through the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s; Bud Abbott (1896-1974) and Lou Costello(1908-59), two popular American comedians who appeared in many humorous films together in the 1940s and 1950s; Lou Costello
Lou Abbott, Bud; and Costello: orig. William Alexander Abbott and Louis Francis Cristillo born Oct. 2, 1899, Asbury Park, N.J., U.S. died April 24, 1974, Woodland Hills, Calif. born March 6, 1906, Paterson, N.J. died March 3, 1959, East Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. comedy team, prominent in vaudeville from 1931 and on radio from 1938. Their first successful film, Buck Privates (1941), was followed by more than 30 other slapstick comedies, with Abbott playing a bullying straight man to Costello's childlike buffoon. Their famous routine "Who's on First?" was first performed in the film The Naughty Nineties (1945). The collaboration ended in 1957