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Costello Runs For Mayor

Abbott and Costello · May 16, 1946 · 29 min · 4,346 words

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C-A-M-E-L-S. The Abbot and Costello program starring Bud Abbot and Lou Costello brought to you by Camels. The cigarette of cost be your properly aged tobacco. The Abbot and Costello program with the music of Karl Hopp and his orchestra, our singing star Amy Arnell, and spotlighting that chucky chubby little cherub, who went caught putting a sheet of metal in his Uncle Artie Stebbins pants,

because he heard him say he was sitting on pins and needles. Come on, you know you're late. Explain yourself, where have you been? Well, I was listening to my cousin yoga, given a very important speech, under cold shortage.

He said, gentlemen, due to the cold shortage, we must have electricity. I beg you not to use electricity. Please don't even turn on the electricity. Did they listen to him? No, the warden threw the switch anyway.

I'm going to do it. Did they listen to him? No, they're not. I'm going to do it a switch anyway. Well, never mind your cousin, you go. Do you realize there's been a woman waiting for you here for the last hour?

Oh, there you are at last, Mr. Costello. I could hardly wait to look up here. I've been so big dying to see you. And at last year you are. At last year we are. You die, please.

So, ain't it that vacuum of sucking the laces out of my shoe? I am Mr. Sylvia Sadlerso. And I know, Georgie, don't tell me you're a little soviet stuff. Yes, I'll bet it's a big part now.

And we went to school together in that little big school. I'll bet it's a big school now. Yes, and remember the day when I was five years old, expensive? Yep. Time marches on. Mrs. Saddle, so what brings you to California?

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