Bud Abbott : I dont want to be anoying but…

I was just listneing to a radio show and they said in passing Bud and Lou did not get on in reallife and ended up hating each other.. say it aint so :(.. Please tell me they got it mistaken for some one else! (im watching a&C meet the mummy as i type this :P )thanks for your help :) Adam-Uk-22

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That's the rumour, but actually it isn't true. What is closer to the truth was that Lou could be very difficult to work with. Big ego. Bud was the opposite, being very passive.

Actually it was sadly true in some cases. Yes, Lou could be difficult and later when Lou passed in '59 Bud commented that he missed his sidekick so much. Look up the book "Lou's on First" it has much of their background.

I think it was like any friendship, where sometimes you love the other person, and sometimes they get on your nerves. When Lou died, Bud said, "What can I say? I've lost my best friend."

sorry for the late reply :(
Awww that is good to know :( I'm glad to know they were some what friends. I can watch the films in the future and know its not all fake :D thanks!

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Their friendship may not have been "all fake", but by the 1950's, they had engaged in some nasty fights with each other and it's hard to imagine there wasn't a sour feeling between them. They certainly needed each other, so they remained civil, until Abbott blew a comeback opportunity for them in 1956 by performing drunk.

I though Lou got the most recognition, being the funny one. The clownish preformers usually get more attention than the strait man (I think that was one of the reasons Martin & Lewis split-up).

Martin & Lewis split up because Jerry couldn't share the limelight.

I've always heard that, according to tradition going all the way back to vaudeville, it's usually the "straight man" of any comedy duo whose name appears ahead of the partner in the act. Hence, not just "Abbott &am 111c p; Costello," but "Martin & Lewis," "Burns & Allen," "Rowan & Martin," etc.

Yeah, Lou was "the funny one" but he needed a good straight man to give any kind of context to the humor that audiences would find funny; and it was said that Bud Abbott was the best straight man in the entire industry. Lou won the lottery when he struck the partnership with Bud; other comedians would have KILLED to snag Abbott as their straigh man!

Lou originally (and quite enthusiastically) supported the tradition of 60-40 in favor of the straight man, but as Bud & Lou became more successful it had a way of going to Lou's head and he began to imagine the possibilities of getting himself another straight man (and reversing the 60-40 in HIS favor) or even striking on his own without a partner. Too, both Bud and Lou became plagued by IRS / tax debt and it eventually nearly wiped out everything they'd ever earned to pay back the debt; Lou must have thought that it wouldn't hurt to boost his income. Bud actually agreed to Lou's demand to switch the take to 60-40 in Lou's favor but the act didn't survive much longer because of the novelty of their act in the movies beginning to taper off. Their last several pictures were pale shadows of their previous successes onscreen and neither of them were getting any younger. Meanwhile, Louu had hardened with ambition, jealousy and resentment; and Bud was losing the battle with the bottle.

Lou went on to make one more picture without Bud and it's nothing to write home about. He tried to find another straight man but there just wasn't anyone out there who could "click" with him the way Bud did.

All that having been said, I think there was always a brotherly love between the two that co-existed with the mutual hard feelings that had festered for so many years and ultimately ended their partnership.

I watched a documentary on Abbott and Costello several years ago and remember an incident where Costello fired a housekeeper and was furious when Abbott hired her. This lead to them not speaking for a year (or was it two?).

There is nothing that says people who work together have to be buddy-buddy when it comes to their personal lives. In or out of show business. I've worked around the same folks for 8-12 years, but 111c I've never been in their houses, they've never been in mine. We've gone out for drinks on very rare occasions.
The relationships in show biz are even more intense because you often spend so much traveling and rehearsing together. I spoze things were even more complicated if you were related. The Andrews Sisters reportedly didn't speak to one another offstage for months at a time.
"We're fighting for this woman's honor, which is more than she ever did."

No, they did get along well. They had disagreements, but that happens with everyone. Bud was the lead pallbearer at Lou's funeral.