Abbott And Costello

For comedy aficionados who watch a lot of classic comedy — that is, films that date back not just a few decades, but even a century or more — it’s easy to spot recurring gags that the masters often relied upon for laughs; easy laughs, perhaps, but laughs nonetheless. …

In honor of Halloween and all things spooky, what better time to pay tribute to a pair of classic Abbott & Costello films that combine fright and laughter with great results: Hold That Ghost and Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. A fair number of comedians from decades past have made…

Digital HD Release Universal Studios

I started watching every Sunday at about age 9. We had 2 stations that broadcast an Abbott and Costello film every Sunday after cartoons. One was Channel 17 in Philadelphia and a half hour later a different Abbott and Costello film would run one on Channel 11 out of NYC…

Lesson in Analytics From Vaudeville — It is a story more than a century old. A man scorned, tracks the source of his suffering. After a setback or two, he finally confronts the instigator of his quest. Slowly he turns, step by step and then … trouble ensues. This is all played out as a story…

Comedy is a hard subject to take seriously. Everybody in the world’s history, from William Shakespeare to that one uncle you had that would steal copper from abandoned houses, has had a different sense of humor. …

Now in children’s book form! Laurel and Hardy may have been the original vaudeville duo, but, well, they didn’t have a “Who’s on First.”

by Mark Lotto Bride of Frankenstein was the very, very best of the Universal horror movies, because its director, James Whale, was as perverse as any mad scientist and as gentle as his monster. After the bride’s black hair is stood up on end and shot through with white…