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Lou Builds A House
Abbott and Costello · April 24, 1947 · 29 min · 4,725 words
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Right folks, C4comedy, C4comedy for Abbott, and Maxwell, L for Luke Costello. Put them all together and they spell, Camel! Experiences is the best teacher. Try a camel. Let your own experience tell you why more people are smoking camels than ever before.
And draw up a chair for tonight's camel show starring Bud Abbott and Luke Costello! Aah! Look at yourself. You look at me.
Oh, stop that. Your appearance is disgraceful. Wait a minute, why are you wearing that faded shirt? I've just been made a vice president of NBC! I am! What? I'm gonna talk to you! Hello, I phoned you last night. Where were you?
Where was I here? I was over at Earl Carroll's helping the bubble dancer blow up her bubble. Abbott, she was so grateful she gave me the best seat in the house. In the first row?
No, inside the bubble. Ah! I mean, what were you doing at Earl Carroll's? What was I doing at Earl Carroll's? What were you doing at Earl Carroll's? for a place to invest our money. What do you mean?
So I'm all over there to buy it. All night to manage your nice scribble figures on the tablecloth. And you know, if you and I put all our money together, we could buy it. Earl Carroll?
No, the tablecloth. I am. Save on you. Hang around with bubble dances at the night. Bubble dances. Night clouds. You ought to be ashamed of it. Haven't seen that bubble dance. I'm engaged. I think I'll have to call it off.
Why? For two reasons. Her parents object to our engagement. And so does she. That. No girl would marry you and live in that broken-down shack you're living in broken-down shack Yeah, but I'm proud of my home. It's the only house in California with Venetian blinds over the mouse holes That place you live in has grass growing through the middle of the floor. What do you expect for $15 Brussels sprout Alice?
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