GEORGE Gracie, what are you looking for?

GRACIE The audience.

GEORGE You see that camera, you see the little lens sticking out. Well, you look right into that and that's where the audience is.

GRACIE Oh? All right.

GEORGE Now, Gracie, if we can talk for nine minutes, they'll pay us seventeen hundred dollars. Do you think you can do that?

GRACIE George, just ask me what my brother Harvey is doing.

Well, that started her, and she talked for nine minutes. In the middle of a joke I stopped her:

GEORGE Gracie, our nine minutes are up, and we just made seventeen hundred dollars. Now wave goodbye to the audience.

This is the script from George and Gracie's first ever movie short... the entire script. They were apparently tickled to collect such a large amount of money for something so short and sweet. It was the first in a much more grand career in film.