- Bud was 5 feet 8 inches tall.
- On average Abbott earned $390,000 a year.
- Abbott once owned one of Adolf Hitler's shotguns.
- In 1959 not long after Lou's death, Abbott was forced by the IRS to pay Costello's $750,000 back taxes.
- Abbott wore a front toupee for many of his early films.
- Groucho Marx described Bud Abbott as "the greatest straight man ever."
- Bud supplied his own voice for the 1967 Saturday cartoon version of Abbott & Costello.
- He has a star on the walk of fame.
- Throughout his life he suffered with bouts of epilepsy and alcoholism.
