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Are these comedy duos or TV crimefighters?
Who cracked down and who cracked up?
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Famous comedy duos have been entertaining audiences since the vaudeville days. With the rise of television, couples often did comedy together, releasing records and performing on variety shows.
The other kind of popular TV duo? Crimefighters! Whether they were beat cops, detectives or special agents, two people keeping the peace were always better than one.
Here are some of our favorite duos from years past. Can you guess which ones told jokes and which ones chased down bad guys?
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Abbott & Costello
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Starsky & Hutch
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Cagney & Lacey
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Laurel & Hardy
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Reed & Malloy
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Martin & Lewis
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Mulder & Scully
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Cheech & Chong
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Burns & Allen
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Poncherello & Baker
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Nichols & May
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Friday & Gannon
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Crockett & Tubbs
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Stiller & Meara
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McGarrett & Williams
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Allen & Rossi
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Coyle & Sharpe
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Simon & Simon
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Gallagher & Shean
Are these comedy duos or TV crimefighters?
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17 ajoke
* 18 of 19 ~> NEVER heard of Coyle & Sharpe! ☺
Me too. Never heard of them either.
17/19; missed 2 I never heard of.
17/19
18 out of 19. Got the Coyle & Sharpe question wrong. 😁😁😁😁😁
Same as below.
18/19 Never heard of Coyle & Sharpe, which for me is unusual.
Me to. 🙂
16/19
18 for 19.
Stinky, Bingo da Chimp and Mike the Cop helped me.
If you are ever in Patterson check out the statue to native son Lou Costello.
Did you know in WW 2 Abbott & Costello raised BILLIONS(in today's $) of dollars
on War Bonds tours? Costello had passed on but in Abbott's last years the IRS
relentlessly(why?) hounded him for every cent he had, leaving him with almost
nothing.
Stinky, Bingo da Chimp and Mike the Cop helped me.
If you are ever in Patterson check out the statue to native son Lou Costello.
Did you know in WW 2 Abbott & Costello raised BILLIONS(in today's $) of dollars
on War Bonds tours? Costello had passed on but in Abbott's last years the IRS
relentlessly(why?) hounded him for every cent he had, leaving him with almost
nothing.
Both Bud and Lou grossly mishandled their money over the years, plus bad accounting practices by unscrupulous bookkeepers, that in 1953 the IRS did audits on them which lasted for years, even after Lou's death in 1959.
Hey Abbott !
17 for 19,
15 out of 19.
18/19
Never heard of Coyle & Sharpe.
Biden and Harris: Comedy duo.
That's good!!!
16/19. I don't recall any vaudeville acts. Never heard of Coyle&Sharpe or Nichols&May.
you might know of Mr.Nichols efforts as a director of plays and movies..his notable efforts are"The Odd Couple" and "The Graduate".
The scene when Dustin Hoffman inhales a cigarette puff before he kisses Mrs. Robinson and then exhales the smoke while kissing is from a Nichols & May sketch about teenagers.
18/19; missed #17 - never heard of Coyle and Sharpe
19/19
17 right.
Missed 16 and 17. Never heard of them