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The 10 Best Comedy Duos of All Time: From Icons Sonny and Cher to the Hilarious Abbott and Costello

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Sep 22, 2023 1:40 pm·

By Closer Staff

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A few memorable teams have gotten the last laugh over the years! Scroll below to see the 10 best comedy duos of all time.

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Sonny and Cher perform together on stage

10. Sonny & Cher

The beat goes on! They’d split in ’75, but Cher’s bond with Sonny Bono through hit singles and variety shows was no joke. “It was more than a marriage, more than a partnership,” said Cher of her late ex. “We have a connection, still. I always carry his words in my ears. If he walked through that door right now, we would be Sonny and Cher in two seconds.”

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9. Cheech & Chong

“We didn’t take ourselves seriously in a serious era,” reflected Cheech Marin on his ’70s stoner humor with Tommy Chong, which included such high points as five gold records and the 1978 flick Up in Smoke. “We were doing hippie burlesque.”

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Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara attend a film premiere

8. Eugene Levy & Catherine O’Hara

Way before TV’s Schitt’s Creek or pics à la Best in Show, Eugene and Catherine briefly dated in the ’70s while starting out at Toronto’s Second City. “Everybody in the cast dated,” she confessed. “There’s nothing more sexy than making each other laugh.”

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Martin Short and Steve Martin wear suits on red carpet

7. Martin Short & Steve Martin

“There’s just an ease between us,” says Steve of his costar in Three Amigos, Father of the Bride and TV’s Only Murders in the Building. “Sometimes I’ll hang out with Marty and I’ll realize I haven’t laughed that hard in months.”

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Jerry Stiller and wife Anne Meara in black and white

6. Stiller & Meara

As successful as their stand-up act was in the ’60s, Jerry Stiller and wife Anne Meara stopped doing live performances in 1970 to save what would end up being a 61-year marriage. As Anne shared, “I didn’t know where the act ended and our marriage began.”

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George Burns with wife Gracie Allen standin inn front of microphone

5. Burns & Allen

Say goodnight, Gracie. From vaudeville to radio, film and TV, George Burns believed the secret of his success with wife Gracie Allen “was that I knew what to do off stage and Gracie knew what to do on. [So] I gave her all the funny lines.” Admitted George: “I would have been nothing without Gracie.”

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Bob Hope and Bing Crosby chat in front of a home

4. Bob Hope & Bing Crosby

“We used to do anything [for a laugh],” said Bob of his “fun” sharing the screen with Bing for their seven road pics, including 1942’s Road to Morocco. “[And] we always had a light jab for each other.”

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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy wear matching hats and suits

3. Laurel & Hardy

“Oh, they were marvelous days,” said Stan Laurel of teaming with Oliver Hardy for nearly 100 films from 1927 to 1951. And they didn’t get into Another Fine Mess as other partners did. Why? “There was never any jealousy because he left [the business] up to me.”

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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis make funny faces while standing at microphone

2. Martin & Lewis

In 1956, they’d have a bad breakup. But during their 10 years together, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis became the biggest names in radio, film and TV because, as Jerry shared: “When the audience found that laughter coming from these two [very different] guys, you have to be blind not to see how much they love one another. People love to see love.”

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello wear suits in black and white

1. Abbott & Costello

Who’s on first? Of course, it’s Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose fame on stage, radio, TV and films such as 1941’s Buck Privates came down to one thing. “[Our act] was a style of our own,” said Bud. “It was all in timing. Keeping things at a pace that very few comedians ever did. We didn’t wait for jokes. We just kept right on talking. If they don’t laugh, all right. If they do, all right, too.”

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