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Cast: Abbott and Costello, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Janik and Arnaut, Fred Darian, The Pied Pipers, Veola Vonn
Running Time: 51 mins.
Vault: CLASSIC TV
For approximately five-and-a-half seasons, NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour presented big budget musical variety television as head-to-head competition for Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town on CBS. Featuring the top names in vaudeville, theater, radio and film, this live Sunday evening series was the first starring vehicle for many notable performers turning to television. Reflecting format variations by host, the Colgate Comedy Hour initially offered musical comedy, burlesque sketches, opera and/or night club comedy revues. In this show, Lou thinks his wife is pregnant only to discover that it's Bud's wife who is in the maternity ward of the hospital. The live sketch goes awry when a flower vase is broken it's needed in a closing gag, but Bud and Lou quickly get back to the skit without missing a beat! Les Paul and Mary Ford perform "I Really Don't Want To Know", the novelty number "No Place Like Home" with their trick guitar effects and close with "Tiger Rag". Exotic dancers Janik and Arnaut perform the weird snake dance!
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