Who’s on First?

Although this classic comedy routine by Abbott and Costello is over 60 years old now, it still hasn’t lost any of its punch. They performed it on radio, and in their 1945 movie “The Naughty Nineties”, and on their television show. You can read the transcript of it here, and you’ll certainly get a chuckle out of it, but this comedy routine has an even stronger impact if you listen to the actors themselves perform it, which you can do here.

My favorite exchange from the “Who’s on First?” routine still cracks me up (and Costello’s reaction is equally funny):

Costello: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?
Abbott: Every dollar of it.

Dawn at Caterwauling updates this classic comedy routine by having Abbott and Costello buy a computer.