This week’s baseball theme wouldn’t be complete without Bud Abbott and Lou Costello doing their classic “Who’s On First?”. The skit originated in burlesque in various permutations, until the team turned it into a baseball routine and ran away with it. They first performed it before a national audience on Kate Smith’s radio show in 1938, and it was an immediate smash. Abbott & Costello never did it the same way twice, riffing on the routine like a jam band. Enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1956, here’s the boys doing “Who’s On First?” from their 1950’s television show:
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It was, and still is, The Perfect Comedy Routine.
The odd thing is that even now, I’ve heard Little League baseball players, 11 and 12-year-old kids, doing parts of Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on first?” bit. It truly is timeless.
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Love that routine!
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A real classic. Years ago when I was an actress, a couple of students in my acting class did the scene. Red Foxx (of Sanford and Son) came in and sat in our class and watched. A veteran standup comedian, he laughed along with the rest of us. This skit never ages.
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