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"Anyone got that (Lou Costello) scene?"
Might be stabbing in the dark here but theres a scene with either Abbot or Costello (I'm 25 alright i cannot fuckin tell which ones which) and its on one of their late TV runs and they're with their wife and they fuck up the spot where she face plants a cake so (i presume Lou)0 just picks up the cake and throws it at her. Ive deffo seen it before somewhere but cant find it for the life of me.
I find the scene quite charming and I recall it being a good hit so thought I'd just mention it out in the ether like.
I find the scene quite charming and I recall it being a good hit so thought I'd just mention it out in the ether like.
It was on 1 of Hurleys old cliptapes & I think it was an excerpt from a comedy special that Jerry Seinfeld narrated. And yeah it was a pretty good scene & hit.
XXXMESS said: It was on 1 of Hurleys old cliptapes & I think it was an excerpt from a comedy special that Jerry Seinfeld narrated. And yeah it was a pretty good scene & hit.
My god what a hint to to go on jerry fuckin seinfeld. Found it cheers like its here at 27:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fjTOqHyn4c&ab_channel=CB%27sMediaArchive
There has GOT to be a better quality video online somewhere of this. What the OP remembers is I think around 27:45 and its obviously a botched sketch on live TV. Costello stands up, clips the woman in the jaw and she drops the cake or whatever. He covers by throwing a pie in her face.
Lou Costello (the short heavy one) and Bud Abbot loved pies in the face. Moe Howard wrote in an autobiography that Costello wanted to be the third Stooge. They staged pie fights for the cast and crew after filming of their movies ended. Sadly there are no good pie fights IN the movies.
Lou Costello (the short heavy one) and Bud Abbot loved pies in the face. Moe Howard wrote in an autobiography that Costello wanted to be the third Stooge. They staged pie fights for the cast and crew after filming of their movies ended. Sadly there are no good pie fights IN the movies.
Here is the better version of that scene from the original Colgate Comedy Hour.
The full sketch starts at 41 mins here ...
https://youtu.be/r9bUGCTQ7iE
This was a blooper error that happened on Live TV so there was no chance for a do-over. Mary Ford was supposed to get the pie in the face the first time, but the pie went off target, so Lou did a quick ad lib and picked up the pie and then nailed Mary properly. You have to be quick on your feet to ad lib when things go wrong on Live TV. I remember when Hurley Coward came down to shoot several pie videos with our models in 1992 at my ranch and Hurley directed and threw 4 perfect pie scenes at our models, but in the 5th pie scene things went wrong and Hurley missed Jo's face and then the 2nd retake missed as well, so Hurley just grabbed 2 more pies off the table and gave Jo a pie sandwich, so Hurley's ad lib worked out great.
For the younger fans here, Lou was the short chubby guy who started his career as a film extra in Laurel and Hardy's 1927 pie fight film "Battle of the Century". Lou teamed up with Bug Abbott when they went on stage in their vaudeville act. Bud Abbott was the tall skinny guy who always carried a pencil in his top pocket because he was an epileptic who would regularly have seizures on the stage, so the pencil was something he could bite on to prevent him from swallowing his tongue.
Lou Costello provided 100% of the comedy and Bud Abbott was just a straight man, though Abbott had perfect timing when engaging in banter and would not step on Costello's comedy lines. The famous "Who's On First" baseball routine has been attempted to be recreated by many comedians over the decades, but nobody has ever matched the perfect timing that Abbott and Costello had.
Because of Bud Abbott;'s health problems, he never wanted to go to Hollywood to make movies or tv shows and he preferred to stay on the stage instead. Lou Costello was aggressive and wanted the fame and to go into making movies, but Abbott was not interested. Lou badgered Bud Abbott until he finally relented, but Bud punished Lou and insisted on a condition that their movie contracts paid 60% of all their earnings to Abbott and Lou would only get 40%, despite doing 100% of the comedy.
This 60/40 relationship survived for 38 movies they made as a team, but eventually led to their break up because Costello was not happy about his sidekick getting a larger share of the earnings than he was.
But by then their income was a moot point because both of them were big spenders who did not declare their income properly so the IRS stepped in and seized all their assets so by the time they made this tv show they were both pretty much penniless because Uncle Sam had seized most of their assets including their homes and their rights to their movies.
The full sketch starts at 41 mins here ...
https://youtu.be/r9bUGCTQ7iE
This was a blooper error that happened on Live TV so there was no chance for a do-over. Mary Ford was supposed to get the pie in the face the first time, but the pie went off target, so Lou did a quick ad lib and picked up the pie and then nailed Mary properly. You have to be quick on your feet to ad lib when things go wrong on Live TV. I remember when Hurley Coward came down to shoot several pie videos with our models in 1992 at my ranch and Hurley directed and threw 4 perfect pie scenes at our models, but in the 5th pie scene things went wrong and Hurley missed Jo's face and then the 2nd retake missed as well, so Hurley just grabbed 2 more pies off the table and gave Jo a pie sandwich, so Hurley's ad lib worked out great.
For the younger fans here, Lou was the short chubby guy who started his career as a film extra in Laurel and Hardy's 1927 pie fight film "Battle of the Century". Lou teamed up with Bug Abbott when they went on stage in their vaudeville act. Bud Abbott was the tall skinny guy who always carried a pencil in his top pocket because he was an epileptic who would regularly have seizures on the stage, so the pencil was something he could bite on to prevent him from swallowing his tongue.
Lou Costello provided 100% of the comedy and Bud Abbott was just a straight man, though Abbott had perfect timing when engaging in banter and would not step on Costello's comedy lines. The famous "Who's On First" baseball routine has been attempted to be recreated by many comedians over the decades, but nobody has ever matched the perfect timing that Abbott and Costello had.
Because of Bud Abbott;'s health problems, he never wanted to go to Hollywood to make movies or tv shows and he preferred to stay on the stage instead. Lou Costello was aggressive and wanted the fame and to go into making movies, but Abbott was not interested. Lou badgered Bud Abbott until he finally relented, but Bud punished Lou and insisted on a condition that their movie contracts paid 60% of all their earnings to Abbott and Lou would only get 40%, despite doing 100% of the comedy.
This 60/40 relationship survived for 38 movies they made as a team, but eventually led to their break up because Costello was not happy about his sidekick getting a larger share of the earnings than he was.
But by then their income was a moot point because both of them were big spenders who did not declare their income properly so the IRS stepped in and seized all their assets so by the time they made this tv show they were both pretty much penniless because Uncle Sam had seized most of their assets including their homes and their rights to their movies.
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wamtec said: Here is the better version of that scene from the original Colgate Comedy Hour.
The full sketch starts at 41 mins here ...
https://youtu.be/r9bUGCTQ7iE
This was a blooper error that happened on Live TV so there was no chance for a do-over. Mary Ford was supposed to get the pie in the face the first time, but the pie went off target, so Lou did a quick ad lib and picked up the pie and then nailed Mary properly. You have to be quick on your feet to ad lib when things go wrong on Live TV. I remember when Hurley Coward came down to shoot several pie videos with our models in 1992 at my ranch and Hurley directed and threw 4 perfect pie scenes at our models, but in the 5th pie scene things went wrong and Hurley missed Jo's face and then the 2nd retake missed as well, so Hurley just grabbed 2 more pies off the table and gave Jo a pie sandwich, so Hurley's ad lib worked out great.
For the younger fans here, Lou was the short chubby guy who started his career as a film extra in Laurel and Hardy's 1927 pie fight film "Battle of the Century". Lou teamed up with Bug Abbott when they went on stage in their vaudeville act. Bud Abbott was the tall skinny guy who always carried a pencil in his top pocket because he was an epileptic who would regularly have seizures on the stage, so the pencil was something he could bite on to prevent him from swallowing his tongue.
Lou Costello provided 100% of the comedy and Bud Abbott was just a straight man, though Abbott had perfect timing when engaging in banter and would not step on Costello's comedy lines. The famous "Who's On First" baseball routine has been attempted to be recreated by many comedians over the decades, but nobody has ever matched the perfect timing that Abbott and Costello had.
Because of Bud Abbott;'s health problems, he never wanted to go to Hollywood to make movies or tv shows and he preferred to stay on the stage instead. Lou Costello was aggressive and wanted the fame and to go into making movies, but Abbott was not interested. Lou badgered Bud Abbott until he finally relented, but Bud punished Lou and insisted on a condition that their movie contracts paid 60% of all their earnings to Abbott and Lou would only get 40%, despite doing 100% of the comedy.
This 60/40 relationship survived for 38 movies they made as a team, but eventually led to their break up because Costello was not happy about his sidekick getting a larger share of the earnings than he was.
But by then their income was a moot point because both of them were big spenders who did not declare their income properly so the IRS stepped in and seized all their assets so by the time they made this tv show they were both pretty much penniless because Uncle Sam had seized most of their assets including their homes and their rights to their movies.
The full sketch starts at 41 mins here ...
https://youtu.be/r9bUGCTQ7iE
This was a blooper error that happened on Live TV so there was no chance for a do-over. Mary Ford was supposed to get the pie in the face the first time, but the pie went off target, so Lou did a quick ad lib and picked up the pie and then nailed Mary properly. You have to be quick on your feet to ad lib when things go wrong on Live TV. I remember when Hurley Coward came down to shoot several pie videos with our models in 1992 at my ranch and Hurley directed and threw 4 perfect pie scenes at our models, but in the 5th pie scene things went wrong and Hurley missed Jo's face and then the 2nd retake missed as well, so Hurley just grabbed 2 more pies off the table and gave Jo a pie sandwich, so Hurley's ad lib worked out great.
For the younger fans here, Lou was the short chubby guy who started his career as a film extra in Laurel and Hardy's 1927 pie fight film "Battle of the Century". Lou teamed up with Bug Abbott when they went on stage in their vaudeville act. Bud Abbott was the tall skinny guy who always carried a pencil in his top pocket because he was an epileptic who would regularly have seizures on the stage, so the pencil was something he could bite on to prevent him from swallowing his tongue.
Lou Costello provided 100% of the comedy and Bud Abbott was just a straight man, though Abbott had perfect timing when engaging in banter and would not step on Costello's comedy lines. The famous "Who's On First" baseball routine has been attempted to be recreated by many comedians over the decades, but nobody has ever matched the perfect timing that Abbott and Costello had.
Because of Bud Abbott;'s health problems, he never wanted to go to Hollywood to make movies or tv shows and he preferred to stay on the stage instead. Lou Costello was aggressive and wanted the fame and to go into making movies, but Abbott was not interested. Lou badgered Bud Abbott until he finally relented, but Bud punished Lou and insisted on a condition that their movie contracts paid 60% of all their earnings to Abbott and Lou would only get 40%, despite doing 100% of the comedy.
This 60/40 relationship survived for 38 movies they made as a team, but eventually led to their break up because Costello was not happy about his sidekick getting a larger share of the earnings than he was.
But by then their income was a moot point because both of them were big spenders who did not declare their income properly so the IRS stepped in and seized all their assets so by the time they made this tv show they were both pretty much penniless because Uncle Sam had seized most of their assets including their homes and their rights to their movies.
Ta to the info, knew they hated each other but that's about it. Me and me mates mostly only know laurel and hardy as our mainstray (despite i say our relatively young age) because Stan Laurel was brought up where we're from so some parasocial connection has developed. Obvs the rest of me knowledge of that era comes from WAM aside from like Chaplin and Keaton and Groucho who I find just actually funny (stooges are as well but that's pure slapstick innit so leans in).
As a little side note to WAMTEC's awesome bio on Lou Costello and Bud Abbot:
There is a statue of Lou Costello in Paterson, New Jersey (Lou's home town and my own home state).
Being a NJ native and having been to Paterson, from what I heard Lou Costello loved and was beloved by his home town (he did a lot of charity gigs there).
There is a statue of Lou Costello in Paterson, New Jersey (Lou's home town and my own home state).
Being a NJ native and having been to Paterson, from what I heard Lou Costello loved and was beloved by his home town (he did a lot of charity gigs there).
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messk1 said:, from what I heard Lou Costello loved and was beloved by his home town (he did a lot of charity gigs there).
They did a LOT of charity work and Lou especially raised a lot of money for children's hospitals, so Lou was a great humanitarian.
They also raised over 85 million dollars for the U.S. government via promoting Bond Sales during WW2. This was a bone of contention when the IRS went after them in the early 50's when the IRS seized their homes and all their possessions, all because of a couple hundred thousand dollars of disallowed business expenses they claimed on their tax returns. Lou was furious and made the point that they had raised over 85 million dollars for the U.S. government ... and how did the Government thank then, by disallowing their business expenses to buy new suits for their stage and tv shows.
If you want to know more, there is an excellent tv movie made about their life, starring Buddy Hackett as Lou and Harvey Korman as Bud. Hackett and Korman nail it. This is very good tv movie.
https://youtu.be/4bn187AobQU
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