The smarter, meaner, thinner half of one of the top comedy teams of the 1940s, Bud Abbott was the son of a circus advance man and a bareback rider, grew up on Coney Island and was shanghaied to Norway as a teenager. Returning to the U.S., he organized burlesque shows. The duo of Abbott and Costello was formed when Abbott, selling tickets at a burlesque theater, was pulled in as a last-minute…
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