There was a much-loved baseball announcer named Vin Scully whose career ran for several decades. Fairly late in his career, he covered a game in which a player of Chinese descent reached first base. "I've waited for years to say this: Hu's on first!"
Chin-Lung Hu, born in Taiwan, played for the LA Dodgers from 2007 -10 and the NY Mets in 2011, currently playing for the Fubon Guardians in the Chinese Baseball League
It really is one of the greatest sketches ever. It is so great that valrodgers8889 sometimes says "who's on first"... that surely gives you an idea of the scale of it.
The genius in this performance is the speed and accuracy of each of them. This is more impressive than it may first appear, and equally hilarious and stupid. ♣
They began honing the routine shortly after teaming up in 1936, and performed it in vaudeville in 1937 and 1938. It was first heard by a national radio audience on March 24, 1938, when the team were regulars on the Kate Smith radio show. They were the highest paid entertainers during WW2. FYI, Kate Smith’s best selling song was Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”.
I've listened to this bit dozens of times and it still makes me laugh. Fun fact - Some years ago a Taiwanese-born baseball player named Chin-lung Hu became a meme as he was pictured standing on first base.
Some years before that, Robot Chicken did a quick 4 second sketch of someone standing on first base. It was some one from the Who musician, I think. It was a quick blink and you miss it sketch.
@@corbinmcnabb It was, indeed, the immortal Vin Scully, who broadcast the Dodgers from their Brooklyn days to just recently. Decades of broadcasting, and no doubt he was thrilled to be able to say "Hu's on first!"
Some years ago, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey performed this skit in the style of Shakespeare entitled "Who Doth Inhabit the Primary Position." It is very well done and absolutely hilarious, even if you're not familiar with Shakespeare. You can probably still find it somewhere on TH-cam...even if you don't do a reaction, it's still worth a watch.
More modern, some kids did a revision of this performance for World of Warcraft putting a raid together. It works great there as well. I used to crack up at "I'll break your arm if you say 'who's the tank!" Even knowing the original, seeing someone take it and apply it to a modern video game just had me rolling.
Gotta understand that, before that exact sketch you watched, they had done that bit literally *THOUSANDS* of times on vaudeville shows. they were very polished.
Anyone alive in the 1970s in the NY tristate area were raised on Abbott and Costello on television. Every Sunday at 11 am on channel 11 (WPIX) was an A&C movie and the syndicated A&C show was often aired. It's surreal to discover those just discovering this comedy team.
I've heard/seen this at least hundred times, and every time I still laugh by butt off. Their timing & reactions are absolute PERFECTION. My mum's first day in America, she went to a Brooklyn Dodgers game & fell in love. MY first day in America, I went to a Yankees game and fell in love. They say it's no longer the favourite sport in the USA, but you go to a game and the fans are THE most diverse in all sports (and I go to a lot of sporting events) - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, men, women, kids, Goths, nerds, biker types, gay, straight, rich, middle class, poor... ANYHOW... this skit has entered the American lexicon - at my former corporate job, during meetings where people would just start hashing/re-hashing the same issued ad nauseum, it would always be wrapped up with someone saying "This has become a "Who's On First" situation, let's move on" - and even little kids will go "THIRD BASE" when people start to bicker too much. Thank you for this laugh - glad you enjoyed it.
If you want the irony of ironies, the brother of Bud Abbott the taller guy was sitting around the house and was sitting there listening to the two of them practice this routine. The brother had them stop and told them " I don't know what the hell you guys are thinking, nobody is ever going to laugh at that. It isn't funny it's just plain stupid" Yet since then, in many different movies TV shows you-name-it people have did some kind of variation of the same kind of conversation where two people are going back and forth because of something sounding like something else.
"Who's On First" like several other comedy routines Abbott and Costello put into their films was originally a comedy sketch dating back to vaudeville and burlesque. The basic concept of many of these sketches is that the straight man (in this case) Abbott is telling the comic (in this case Costello) and the comic gets more and more confused. Back in the late 1960s a partner and I briefly worked in a few burlesque theaters and did some of the classic routines. One of my favorites is "Watt Street Cleaning and Dying" where the straight man tells the comic he is working on Watt Street (Comic "What street are you working on?" "Watt Street" "Yeah, what street are you working on?") dying (Comic: "You DIE for a living?") cloth. There is also "The shovel is my pick" (th-cam.com/video/DWMKErICEG4/w-d-xo.html) from "Abbot And Costello Meet The Mummy"
The tomorrow gag is this- There was a player called Tom Morrow apparently, and of course they would have thought we've got to use that! This of course is a Masterpiece of Wordplay! I'm convinced Ronnie Barker learned from this and created Four Candles! Bud Abbott is telling Lou Costello the name, Lou Costello thinks he keeps asking a question? Simple but brilliantly done!😊
It's Abbot and Costello that make it funny. They're delivery off each other is perfect. When you think it through, it's really a silly joke, but the speed and accuracy of their dialogue is what makes it work. I don't think any two people could pull it off like they did. And apparently this was in front of a studio audience at least, if not live, so it's not like they could edit it.
Comedic Genius ‼️ These two had perfect comedic timing between them. One of the GREATEST Sketches EVER. [ and I’m not even a big fan of them, nor of baseball]. It’s still funny, decades later. 📻🙂
I would strongly recommend the loafing skit and the visit to the diner when they’re down to their last dollar. There’s so many of them. Just brilliant stuff.
This IS NOT SILLY! It is GENIOUS!!! The thought and imagination it takes to come up with this and to preform it over 10,000 times live, FLAWLESSLEY. I contend this IS THE GREATEST comedy bit in history. I can't even fathom how they came up with this but it is BIBLICAL GOOD!
Seriously! I think non-American/Canadian native-speaking English speaker have to listen very closely, particularly with Lou Costello. I’ve seen a number of British reactors miss parts, especially at the beginning. Of course after the parts are repeated a couple of times, it’s obvious. It is one of the most clever acts ever for American vaudeville.
“Booby Barber” is Lou’s dig at Bobby Barber. Barber was a good friend of A&C, & even appeared in many of their flicks. They even hired him as a sort of a court jester, to help keep the film sets/shoots light & fun! (BTW… That’s him, in the audience, handing the cap & bat to Lou, at the beginning of the sketch. Barber would also interrupt scenes in order to get laughs, & can be seen in various outtake videos, also on TH-cam.) Also… Lou makes several errors in this version, & Bud does his best to try to keep his partner on track. (IMOHO, the best/most complete to script version of the bit, was done in their film, “The Naughty Nineties”.
One position they never covered in the many times they did this skit, Right Field. However back in the 70s there was a Who's On First boardgame that labeled the Right Fielder as 'Nobody'.
I know I am late of on this, but the wonderful thing about Abbott and Costello and "Who's On First" is that this version they do here is not even their best version. And it's still hilarious. The first season of their TV show is hilarious too. If you can find it, check it out. The second season is just okay, but by that time, they have already gone through every one on their routines. Anyway, I still get a smile whenever they do the Who's On First routine. My Dad (long gone) love Abbott and Costello too, and all three of his boys (including me) still find it funny.
I think the version in the movie (they were on a riverboat, but forget the name) was the best, myself. That said, most of the comments I've read suggests most people think this was the best. My opinion does not mean I don't like this one, too.
I once read that at the height of their popularity, Abbott and Costello were performing "Who's On First?" on average of twice a day, usually on radio and in nightclubs.
Victor Borge said a smile is the shortest distance between two people. Have you seen Victor Borge's phonetic punctuation routine? also a very funny classic
Abbot and Costello were the first non-sports people to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fane, and it was all because of this sketch. They developed it back in their vaudeville days, and it got to the point where they could do it at the drop of a hat. It was never exactly the same way twice, and if one of them flubbed a line, they would just carry on and get back on track with no trouble. By the way, Bud Abbot was to tall straight man, and Lou Costello was the shorter one.
I remember the first time I saw this: I wanted a movie night for my 11th birthday, and so my mother and I rented a movie projector and took out some movies from the library (this was the early 80s before VCRs became a big thing), and the one my mother wanted to check out was "Who's On First." Between this and "Grease," THIS was the winner at my birthday party that year. :)
You might also like Johnny Carson's skit "The Copper Clapper Caper". Another one is based on the well-known story "Casey at the Bat". Garrison Keillor did parody of it that completely changed it. You have to know the original to understand the parody.
If you want to see a brilliant parody of Abbot & Costello I recommend the 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon "A Tale of Two Kitties". The cartoon is even in the public domain so no copyright hassle. The cartoon turns Abbot & Costello into anthropomorphized cats and it nails their personas! Very funny cartoon! It's also notable for having the first appearance of a proto-version Tweety Bird. Best Regards!
Host interrupts the video at the beginning saying I promise I will not interrupt this video because it throws off the Comedic timing unless absolutely necessary then halfway through the video interrupts the video to tell us about an ad
TBH… This version, from Bud & Lou’s 1950’s TV show is not the best version. Lou actually makes several script errors, & Bud does one Hell of a job trying to keep his partner on track. If you want to see the best (IMOHO) version of this classic routine, it’s the one from their film, “The Naughty Nineties”! With the exceptions of their character names, it is the nearest to 100% of the original script! You might give the film version a watch, if anything, to see where Lou blows it. Also… In the intro, Lou mentions, “Booby Barber”, which is a silly play on, “Bobby Barber”! Mr. Barber is a long time friend of theirs, who would be hired on many of their various film sets, not only as a bit player, but also to be a sort of a court jester, pranking the cast & crew during takes, to keep the shoot a fun & lively experience for all! (BTW… Bobby Barber is also in this clip, as he is the man who gives the baseball bat & cap to Bud & Lou, at the beginning of this bit!😉)
I hope you've rewatched this and caught the finer moments... in this video, you talked over the introduction of Becoz - and it's such a brief sliver of a moment, it's easy to do. I always watch for the naming of Hu's Wife, too. There are a couple of other Abbott & Costello videos, but I've never seen a halfway decent re-make or duplication of this. My favorite 'similar' version is Johnny Carson as President Ronald Reagan who is confused by his Secretary Of The Interior James Watt, the PLO's Yassar Arafat, Chinese Premier Hu and the YMCA's swimming pool schedule. th-cam.com/video/1Evt6As72m4/w-d-xo.html Johnny Carson was a long-time late-night talk show host on American TV, by the way (mid 1960s into the 1990s).
What is the essential ingredient in their Comedy? A & C honed their skills in VAUDEVILLE & BURLESQUE. Those Entertainers were made up of people of all ages, all backgrounds, all Ethnicities who were just trying to use what they had to make a living. They had to be good because the Ticket Buyers were Depression-era everyday folk who worked extra-hard pinching & saving so that they could have a little joy in their tough existence on the weekend. If they paid their hard -earned money and the Act was lousy, they would give the Theatre Management HELL for it! So anyone on the many VAUDEVILLE & BURLESQUE Stages across The U.S. HAD TO BE GOOD. Vaudevillians knew how to sing, dance, and do Comedy with good timing.They lived and breathed REHEARSAL; even kids missed school if an Act needed perfecting. If the Performers did not have their stuff together, they would get the BOOT! Trust me, there were half a dozen or more other Acts hanging around town just hoping for the chance to replace some failed act. They had to shine like new money in order to assuage the Management, who already wasted money on failed Acts. Many were HUNGRY and needed the job to be able to eat.....It has been said that A & C started doing this skit in the 1930s. By the time they amicably parted ways in the late 1950s, "WHOSE ON FIRST" had been performed approx 1500 times. THEY NEVER MESSED IT UP. That right there is BRILLANCE.....
September 2007, it came true when Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Chin-Lung Hu hit a single. Hu was on first base - th-cam.com/video/PWei5rfeSPA/w-d-xo.html During a May 31, 1966, game against the Minnesota Twins, Eddie Watt of the Baltimore Orioles led off the 5th inning with a double, creating a "Watt's on second".
The routine was first used diuring World War Two. 1945 a version was used in a moving picture: th-cam.com/video/5FsJe4DScDs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TTdCWPOHhAgVtoBq
This was voted the greatest comedy sketch of all time and it’s in the baseball. Hall of Fame runs continuously.
Might wanna fix that comment of yours. Read it back to yourself. You'll see.
It's in the baseball.
There was a much-loved baseball announcer named Vin Scully whose career ran for several decades. Fairly late in his career, he covered a game in which a player of Chinese descent reached first base. "I've waited for years to say this: Hu's on first!"
Chin-Lung Hu, born in Taiwan, played for the LA Dodgers from 2007 -10 and the NY Mets in 2011, currently playing for the Fubon Guardians in the Chinese Baseball League
@@FerretJohnIf he were a doctor we'd call him Doctor Hu and ask him "hey, where's your Tardis?"
It's not "just some old sketch about baseball". Almost 100 years after its creation, it's still the most genius sketch ever.
One of the best Abbott & Costello sketches of all time. I still sometimes say “who's on first”
Amen!😊
It really is one of the greatest sketches ever. It is so great that valrodgers8889 sometimes says "who's on first"... that surely gives you an idea of the scale of it.
"...a LITTLE bit silly?" A BIG bit tiresome.
Costello was the boss; Abbot got 60% because he was the best straight man in the country and they were scarce.
This skit plays in a continuous loop at the baseball hall of Fame. Everytime I go I still sit down and watch it a couple times through.
Love these guys, they rank up there with The Three Stooges
@@philipdickey6460 Only Abbott and Costello were funny.
The genius in this performance is the speed and accuracy of each of them. This is more impressive than it may first appear, and equally hilarious and stupid. ♣
You can hear exactly what you mean when you try to read this joke aloud. It shows you how powerful timing, delivery, and cadence are to comedy.
@@9999bigb All about timing and delivery.
Yes, some classmates in my high school try to do it. Their timing just wasn't there and it flopped.
They began honing the routine shortly after teaming up in 1936, and performed it in vaudeville in 1937 and 1938. It was first heard by a national radio audience on March 24, 1938, when the team were regulars on the Kate Smith radio show. They were the highest paid entertainers during WW2. FYI, Kate Smith’s best selling song was Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”.
I've listened to this bit dozens of times and it still makes me laugh.
Fun fact - Some years ago a Taiwanese-born baseball player named Chin-lung Hu became a meme as he was pictured standing on first base.
Some years before that, Robot Chicken did a quick 4 second sketch of someone standing on first base. It was some one from the Who musician, I think. It was a quick blink and you miss it sketch.
The play by play guy said something to the affect...
After (don't remember how many) years broadcasting, I finally get to say "Hu is on first."
@@corbinmcnabb Vin Scully I think.
@@alvonfork4 Think so. But I wasn't certain and didn't want the uncertainty to interfere with the post.
@@corbinmcnabb It was, indeed, the immortal Vin Scully, who broadcast the Dodgers from their Brooklyn days to just recently. Decades of broadcasting, and no doubt he was thrilled to be able to say "Hu's on first!"
Some years ago, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey performed this skit in the style of Shakespeare entitled "Who Doth Inhabit the Primary Position." It is very well done and absolutely hilarious, even if you're not familiar with Shakespeare. You can probably still find it somewhere on TH-cam...even if you don't do a reaction, it's still worth a watch.
More modern, some kids did a revision of this performance for World of Warcraft putting a raid together. It works great there as well. I used to crack up at "I'll break your arm if you say 'who's the tank!" Even knowing the original, seeing someone take it and apply it to a modern video game just had me rolling.
There's also another homage that's on YT, just look up "chris and jack who's on first." It takes a second but once it gets going, it's pretty great.
Saw that. Great.
@@dianem8544 That is a good spin on it!
@@ninjafoxgamesgeekery Right? Where it starts out as a word-for-word homage but then becomes its own thing.
Gotta understand that, before that exact sketch you watched, they had done that bit literally *THOUSANDS* of times on vaudeville shows. they were very polished.
Anyone alive in the 1970s in the NY tristate area were raised on Abbott and Costello on television. Every Sunday at 11 am on channel 11 (WPIX) was an A&C movie and the syndicated A&C show was often aired. It's surreal to discover those just discovering this comedy team.
As someone from NJ who is 58, that show at 11AM is one of the fondest memories of my childhood.
The Animaniacs cartoon did a version with bands at Woodstock. "
What's the name of the band?"
"The Who"
"The name of the band!"
"Who!"
Lou Costello's accent when he says ( I'll break your arm if you say who's on first ) is great 😂
I've heard/seen this at least hundred times, and every time I still laugh by butt off. Their timing & reactions are absolute PERFECTION. My mum's first day in America, she went to a Brooklyn Dodgers game & fell in love. MY first day in America, I went to a Yankees game and fell in love. They say it's no longer the favourite sport in the USA, but you go to a game and the fans are THE most diverse in all sports (and I go to a lot of sporting events) - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, men, women, kids, Goths, nerds, biker types, gay, straight, rich, middle class, poor... ANYHOW... this skit has entered the American lexicon - at my former corporate job, during meetings where people would just start hashing/re-hashing the same issued ad nauseum, it would always be wrapped up with someone saying "This has become a "Who's On First" situation, let's move on" - and even little kids will go "THIRD BASE" when people start to bicker too much. Thank you for this laugh - glad you enjoyed it.
I love that it varies the loop enough that it never gets frustrating for the listener. It almost has a rhythm to it.
They never repeated it exactly the same; that kept them both alert.
It bears repeating that they re-enacted this sketch at audience request. It’s not _the_ original sketch that they directly rehearsed.
Great and true comedy is timeless. Nothing vulgar, no shock value, just perfect timing, and fun. A true classic.
Best comedy routine ever 😂❤
The greatest use of wordplay ever..
If you want the irony of ironies, the brother of Bud Abbott the taller guy was sitting around the house and was sitting there listening to the two of them practice this routine. The brother had them stop and told them " I don't know what the hell you guys are thinking, nobody is ever going to laugh at that. It isn't funny it's just plain stupid"
Yet since then, in many different movies TV shows you-name-it people have did some kind of variation of the same kind of conversation where two people are going back and forth because of something sounding like something else.
George Carlins skit about the difference between baseball and football is also fantastic (not the one on SNL)
I HOWL every time I see that one!
"Who's On First" like several other comedy routines Abbott and Costello put into their films was originally a comedy sketch dating back to vaudeville and burlesque. The basic concept of many of these sketches is that the straight man (in this case) Abbott is telling the comic (in this case Costello) and the comic gets more and more confused.
Back in the late 1960s a partner and I briefly worked in a few burlesque theaters and did some of the classic routines. One of my favorites is "Watt Street Cleaning and Dying" where the straight man tells the comic he is working on Watt Street (Comic "What street are you working on?" "Watt Street" "Yeah, what street are you working on?") dying (Comic: "You DIE for a living?") cloth. There is also "The shovel is my pick" (th-cam.com/video/DWMKErICEG4/w-d-xo.html) from "Abbot And Costello Meet The Mummy"
The tomorrow gag is this- There was a player called Tom Morrow apparently, and of course they would have thought we've got to use that! This of course is a Masterpiece of Wordplay! I'm convinced Ronnie Barker learned from this and created Four Candles! Bud Abbott is telling Lou Costello the name, Lou Costello thinks he keeps asking a question? Simple but brilliantly done!😊
It's Abbot and Costello that make it funny. They're delivery off each other is perfect. When you think it through, it's really a silly joke, but the speed and accuracy of their dialogue is what makes it work. I don't think any two people could pull it off like they did. And apparently this was in front of a studio audience at least, if not live, so it's not like they could edit it.
Nearly 100 years old and still super funny!
Now thats comedy genius right there!+
Silly? It's absolute genius.
Great timing. Best skit ever
Comedic Genius ‼️
These two had perfect comedic timing between them.
One of the GREATEST Sketches EVER. [ and I’m not even a big fan of them, nor of baseball].
It’s still funny, decades later.
📻🙂
Their best routine. Another great one is when Lou proves by multiplying, adding and division that 13 x 7 = 28
I would strongly recommend the loafing skit and the visit to the diner when they’re down to their last dollar. There’s so many of them. Just brilliant stuff.
The best stand-up sketch of all time
the best part of this skit is that it is a correct string of sentences in the English language with no faults
They are native speakers of English, I should hope so!😂
This IS NOT SILLY! It is GENIOUS!!! The thought and imagination it takes to come up with this and to preform it over 10,000 times live, FLAWLESSLEY. I contend this IS THE GREATEST comedy bit in history. I can't even fathom how they came up with this but it is BIBLICAL GOOD!
Seriously! I think non-American/Canadian native-speaking English speaker have to listen very closely, particularly with Lou Costello. I’ve seen a number of British reactors miss parts, especially at the beginning. Of course after the parts are repeated a couple of times, it’s obvious. It is one of the most clever acts ever for American vaudeville.
this was live tv. no retakes, no editing.
I did this bit in high school theater class.
Not an easy bit to get the timing down but it is amazing. To this day one of the best in history.
“Booby Barber” is Lou’s dig at Bobby Barber.
Barber was a good friend of A&C, & even appeared in many of their flicks. They even hired him as a sort of a court jester, to help keep the film sets/shoots light & fun!
(BTW… That’s him, in the audience, handing the cap & bat to Lou, at the beginning of the sketch. Barber would also interrupt scenes in order to get laughs, & can be seen in various outtake videos, also on TH-cam.)
Also… Lou makes several errors in this version, & Bud does his best to try to keep his partner on track.
(IMOHO, the best/most complete to script version of the bit, was done in their film, “The Naughty Nineties”.
They had probably done that routine in Vaudeville so many tie they could do it sleeping. LOL!!
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Great old movie
Silly and dated but one of my favorites from childhood
One position they never covered in the many times they did this skit, Right Field. However back in the 70s there was a Who's On First boardgame that labeled the Right Fielder as 'Nobody'.
I know I am late of on this, but the wonderful thing about Abbott and Costello and "Who's On First" is that this version they do here is not even their best version. And it's still hilarious. The first season of their TV show is hilarious too. If you can find it, check it out. The second season is just okay, but by that time, they have already gone through every one on their routines. Anyway, I still get a smile whenever they do the Who's On First routine. My Dad (long gone) love Abbott and Costello too, and all three of his boys (including me) still find it funny.
I quite like the one from their show in 1944 (1944-06-08) honoring Joe DiMaggio.
I think the version in the movie (they were on a riverboat, but forget the name) was the best, myself.
That said, most of the comments I've read suggests most people think this was the best.
My opinion does not mean I don't like this one, too.
Joe....I love your colorful new background!!! good choice, bro.
"This is the only time I'm gonna pause the video so it doesn't interrupt the flow of the skit." 3 minutes later: "HEY GUYS BE SURE TO SUBSCRIBE."
That NEVER GETS OLD.
People from all the world react to this bit and laugh even though most dont know anything about baseball.
Never gets old.
I once read that at the height of their popularity, Abbott and Costello were performing "Who's On First?" on average of twice a day, usually on radio and in nightclubs.
Victor Borge said a smile is the shortest distance between two people. Have you seen Victor Borge's phonetic punctuation routine? also a very funny classic
Abbot and Costello were the first non-sports people to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fane, and it was all because of this sketch. They developed it back in their vaudeville days, and it got to the point where they could do it at the drop of a hat. It was never exactly the same way twice, and if one of them flubbed a line, they would just carry on and get back on track with no trouble.
By the way, Bud Abbot was to tall straight man, and Lou Costello was the shorter one.
This got funny when later on there was a player name "Hu" playing in the MLB
they have a version of that skit lost to history that was around 15 minutes long.
I saw this tv show almost seventy years ago.
Great reaction video
The guy in the audience who hands Lou the bat is the great Mel Blanc.
I remember the first time I saw this: I wanted a movie night for my 11th birthday, and so my mother and I rented a movie projector and took out some movies from the library (this was the early 80s before VCRs became a big thing), and the one my mother wanted to check out was "Who's On First."
Between this and "Grease," THIS was the winner at my birthday party that year. :)
Abbott and Costello were huge movie stars in the 1940s and early 1950s
You might also like Johnny Carson's skit "The Copper Clapper Caper". Another one is based on the well-known story "Casey at the Bat". Garrison Keillor did parody of it that completely changed it. You have to know the original to understand the parody.
Someone did an updated version, called "the concert promoter", with three acts: the who, guess who, and yes. (All real bands, btw)
Ahhh- that old New Jersey accent of Lou’s is music to my ears.
CLASSIC! I want to see more of your Corgi! Love dogs!
If you want to see a brilliant parody of Abbot & Costello I recommend the 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon "A Tale of Two Kitties". The cartoon is even in the public domain so no copyright hassle.
The cartoon turns Abbot & Costello into anthropomorphized cats and it nails their personas! Very funny cartoon! It's also notable for having the first appearance of a proto-version Tweety Bird.
Best Regards!
There's a world of warcraft of this comedy too, just as good called, "Who's the Tank?"
Host interrupts the video at the beginning saying I promise I will not interrupt this video because it throws off the Comedic timing unless absolutely necessary then halfway through the video interrupts the video to tell us about an ad
I love this old routine-❤
It's not silly, it's the funniest bit ever!!
Thank you 🙏 I 👍them both
It was silly enough to be inducted into the baseball hall of Fame
Joe: *pauses to tell us he's not going to pause much* 😂
I thought that was kinda unnecessary lol 😂
all that i can do while my candle is still lit
I like to see any one try this today . Never happen.
Jeff Dunham does this with Peanuts password panic it's just as funny
TBH… This version, from Bud & Lou’s 1950’s TV show is not the best version.
Lou actually makes several script errors, & Bud does one Hell of a job trying to keep his partner on track.
If you want to see the best (IMOHO) version of this classic routine, it’s the one from their film, “The Naughty Nineties”! With the exceptions of their character names, it is the nearest to 100% of the original script!
You might give the film version a watch, if anything, to see where Lou blows it.
Also…
In the intro, Lou mentions, “Booby Barber”, which is a silly play on, “Bobby Barber”! Mr. Barber is a long time friend of theirs, who would be hired on many of their various film sets, not only as a bit player, but also to be a sort of a court jester, pranking the cast & crew during takes, to keep the shoot a fun & lively experience for all!
(BTW… Bobby Barber is also in this clip, as he is the man who gives the baseball bat & cap to Bud & Lou, at the beginning of this bit!😉)
also don't miss the I Love Lucy vitameatavegamin episode
I hope you've rewatched this and caught the finer moments... in this video, you talked over the introduction of Becoz - and it's such a brief sliver of a moment, it's easy to do. I always watch for the naming of Hu's Wife, too. There are a couple of other Abbott & Costello videos, but I've never seen a halfway decent re-make or duplication of this. My favorite 'similar' version is Johnny Carson as President Ronald Reagan who is confused by his Secretary Of The Interior James Watt, the PLO's Yassar Arafat, Chinese Premier Hu and the YMCA's swimming pool schedule.
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Johnny Carson was a long-time late-night talk show host on American TV, by the way (mid 1960s into the 1990s).
Conan O'Brien did an ol' timey baseball skit that is hilarious!
Great classic comedy. Try third rock from the sun, a great sitcom from the 90s for some laughs 😂😂😂
Evil Dick arguing with the phone never gets old.
Classic, truly funny.
"13X7=28" and "Shooting dies"
Check out the Abbott and Costello (or Ma and Pa Kettle) math skit…makes perfect sense 🤣🤣🤣
What is the essential ingredient in their Comedy? A & C honed their skills in VAUDEVILLE & BURLESQUE. Those Entertainers were made up of people of all ages, all backgrounds, all Ethnicities who were just trying to use what they had to make a living. They had to be good because the Ticket Buyers were Depression-era everyday folk who worked extra-hard pinching & saving so that they could have a little joy in their tough existence on the weekend. If they paid their hard -earned money and the Act was lousy, they would give the Theatre Management HELL for it! So anyone on the many VAUDEVILLE & BURLESQUE Stages across The U.S. HAD TO BE GOOD. Vaudevillians knew how to sing, dance, and do Comedy with good timing.They lived and breathed REHEARSAL; even kids missed school if an Act needed perfecting. If the Performers did not have their stuff together, they would get the BOOT! Trust me, there were half a dozen or more other Acts hanging around town just hoping for the chance to replace some failed act. They had to shine like new money in order to assuage the Management, who already wasted money on failed Acts. Many were HUNGRY and needed the job to be able to eat.....It has been said that A & C started doing this skit in the 1930s. By the time they amicably parted ways in the late 1950s, "WHOSE ON FIRST" had been performed approx 1500 times. THEY NEVER MESSED IT UP. That right there is BRILLANCE.....
So great
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The straight man always gets top billing.
Watch, Yadier Molina tells runner to steal then throws him out, a breakdown.
or watch, Cardinals turn a wild inning-ending double-play, a breakdown
September 2007, it came true when Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Chin-Lung Hu hit a single. Hu was on first base - th-cam.com/video/PWei5rfeSPA/w-d-xo.html
During a May 31, 1966, game against the Minnesota Twins, Eddie Watt of the Baltimore Orioles led off the 5th inning with a double, creating a "Watt's on second".
A Vaudeville routine in 1937.
Of course it is "silly" This is no different than the silly comedies that the UK is famous for.
This is classic
🎉I can't hear your version. You need to turn up the volume!
FYI, Bud Abbott is the "manager", and Lou Costello is the befuddled "player."
They never mention the right fielder. "No Body" plays in right field
Who could not laugh at this... because he was on first base.
They literally did that routine 10,000 times.
It’s a classic.
This is silly? You know what's silly? Watching someone looking at people who have real talent.
The routine was first used diuring World War Two. 1945 a version was used in a moving picture: th-cam.com/video/5FsJe4DScDs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TTdCWPOHhAgVtoBq
Runs constantly on DVD.
Great, American, one-take sketch!
Costello was Cristello.
whos on 3 rd
It’s just wordplay that’s it. It’s just fun
You say you're not gonna interrupt the flow of the video, and then you do interrupt To tell people to push the button. 😢