BRITISH FAMILY REACTS | Abbott and Costello - Who's On First
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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The joke itself is humorous, but the timing and delivery are what makes this a comedy classic. It gets going pretty fast and never a stumble.
They actually do stumble in this version. It's just hard to catch if it's your first time watching. They have better versions out there but a lot of them are audio only.
@@Riptionator When do they stumble?
@@eroccha you really asking me to watch it again and point out every time they stumbled?
5:25
6:58
Couple more but I need to watch again
@@Riptionator Those are not necessarily stumbles as they do different versions of the bit.
@@eroccha There's recordings of it where there's not a pause or a hiccup in the delivery. But I don't think folks from the UK would have an easy time following that one!
When a Taiwan-born player named Chin Lung Hu on his debut got on base, the commentator Vin Scully (RIP) said "I can finally say this. Hu is on first"
And Scully had been broadcasting Dodger games from 1950 to 2016, the man was a legend
I remembered that
I heard that game and nearly died laughing
Haha I miss Vin.
That's awesome. Wonder how many times Hu heard that growing up though 😂
@@edmunddantes7097 Probably not much since he grew up in Taiwan iirc but lol once he got to the states I bet people referenced that all the time
hard to believe this is rapidly approaching 100 years old and is still funny.
This particular version of the skit was done in the 50s. The original concept that is based on what is from the 20s and it was not who’s on first but over the years different comedy teams put their own spin on the original sketch. Abbott and Costello‘s is the most famous because movies, radio and television made their comedy more widespread.
There is a reason Lou said "I don't give a darn." That is because this was in the early years of television, and you couldn't@@mildredpierce4506 say "dam" on T.V.
I keep seeing this skit used for communications classes.
Actually its from 1937 and The Roaring 20s.
@@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw I remember this from one of their movies from the 30's. Every Sunday morning in the 70's 11:30 an Abbot and Costello movie. Their is also a Radio version from the 30's. This one is from the TV in the 50's. The did the same skit in Rush Hour 2.
A really cool thing about this skit is, they do it so well that you tend to forget how much hard work it took to practice and then do it in the first place. Each of them hits their mark perfectly, one after the other. And they’re doing it live
Amazingly perfect timing
What’s the saying? A true professional makes something extremely difficult look exceptionally easy, or something.
@@morothane1 so true. Did Jordan look like he was even trying? Does Yo Yo Ma look worried when he gets to the fast part?
They never do it the same way twice. They just play off each other so well that if Costello goes off script Abbott can bring him back in. This is actually one of my least favorite versions of this. Search online for any of the radio version. Less frantic but just as funny
It's funny for like the first 3 min but after that it gets old quick. lol
I grew up watching Abbott and Costello shows and had never realized just how challenging it must have been for them to survive paycheck to paycheck in the beginning and the amount of hours/days/weeks/etc it must have taken them to perfect their craft....how humbling it is to know that was how they earned a living...can't imagine the kind of struggles they must have faced in the early years of their careers...thanks for sharing this comedy gold skit... ✌
Especially with the great depression around the corner
They started out in Vaudeville, which predates the depression years. That circuit was brutal.
They were the biggest comedy duo at the time and made BIG money. With hard work comes big rewards!
This skit will NEVER get old! Comedy classic in every sense. The timing, the delivery - pure perfection.
That one skit might go down in history as best duo skit all time - and through time
I don't know what organization did the judging and voting, but this skit was voted the funniest skit in comedy..they performed it countless times live and in their movies. It was included into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame and plays there on a continuous loop.
I sit down and watch it every time I go to the Hall of Fame.
Rain Man (1988)
Shakespeare style misunderstanding and comedy
Pure clean humor
Abbott and Costello had a very rocky relationship, but each realized they needed each other to be successful.
Like almost every other partnership. One of the skits that bothers me is LOAFING, where Bud slaps Lou. Smacking each other's shoulders is OK - face-slaps - that somehow crosses to line for me. They aren't the Three Stooges and the slaps puts a damper on it for me. Odd.
@@RoSaWa386-33 Lou wasn't an angel, he may have deserved a man slap.
Kind of like Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis…
I'm an American who grew up watching Benny Hill in the 70s and 80s.
Abbot and Costello were comic geniuses, and their jokes still work decades later. Thanks so much for sharing this. :)
True Story: In 1986, at the age of 13, I once performed Who's On First for a Talent Show and my partner did NOT show! So I did the entire routine on my own, BY MYSELF!!! I switched hats & changed directions I was facing to represent the different speakers as the conversation/argument continued. The crowd loved it, I won the talent show, and my partner never worked with me again! :)
Partner? He's in right field.
I gotta tell you folks, I feel the same way sometimes hearing YOU speak!
100 mph (ok, 160 kmph. lol) and sometimes I turn subtitles on! lol
I was raised in Oklahoma and I'd probably sound like someone out of an American western to you!
LOVE your channel and interactions and you just keep doing what you're doing!
My dad served in the US armed forces during the 1980s and was stationed in Germany. One of the other guys in his unit was the son of an American father and a German mother and grew up speaking both English and German. The guy could understand German perfectly, but the native Germans couldn't understand him when he spoke German because he had a very thick rural Oklahoman accent!
@@DamonNomad82 My dad was a WW2 vet who fought the Japanese. I'm a USAF vet from the mid 1970s.
I moved from Oklahoma to NY 23 years ago and they still ask me where in Texas I'm from. LOL
I recently watched This Is Your Life Lou Costello (the chubby one). He had a rough life. He was sick once for a year. Like he couldn't get out of bed. He had lots of hardships, but he opened a community center for inner city kids. He did a lot for charity.
Now you know how hard it is for me to understand you guys when you talk fast lol
Abbott and Costello did some of the best old time movies like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, " Meet The Mummy, Jack In The Beanstalk, etc.
My Dad grew up watching and loving them, so of course he instilled that same love for Abbott & Costello in my brother and me. ❤
Yeah, I hadn't even thought about how hard it could be to follow those New York accents. I'm from the south but you just grow up hearing different accents on TV and get used to them.
Lol loved watching them trying to decipher Lou's accent. Who's on First is one of the best ever!
I have seen this routine too many times, but i still get a goofy grin and a cheeky chuckle every time. It's perfect.
I'm older but still Abbott and Costello doing Who's On First was before my time but I'm old enough that my sister and I used to watch it as little kids in black-and-white syndication reruns on Saturday morning TV between some of the other stuff. Or actually I think it was after all the cartoons.
And I fell in love with this one in first grade. My friend and I did a version of it in our basement and then gradually did it in front of other people and it was funny.
But I would propose that it's not all that simple. And that it actually does not go on for too long. Here's why: the overall logical conceit itself is really clever. But in the course of it, they keep going down little logical tangents that are just microcosms to the larger logical macrocosm. And yet they maintain their everyday-man roles that people could relate to on one level or the other while they do it. It really is quite brilliant. Which I think is why it's still a thing after the better part of a century.
The thing that is impressive about the routine is the timing and memory involved in pulling that off without mistakes, just try it and see how incredibly difficult it is.
There are several recorded audio versions of this skit as they performed it on various radio shows and I don't think they ever performed it exactly the same way twice. It was a credit to both of them that they managed to pull it off so well every single time.
My dad had the audio tapes of one of their really polished performances (this one they mess up a little). I had that one and the cadence timed. In junior high (in the 80s) a friend and I did this for the talent show. We thought we were a hoot... I feel sorry for anyone that had to watch us haha! Also, I had to transcribe the script by stopping and rewinding the audio tape to get it right!
This routine is older than all three of you,it goes back to the early days of entertainment.
You have to watch this video and listen closely cause they are quick😂😂
When you really break it down, the skit itself is silly, but the way they deliver it is what makes it hilarious. The dialogue timing and speed is spot on and you actually believe that he doesn't get it., I don't believe any two other comedians could pull that off the way they did.
And they never break character!
The British and the Americans are indeed two people separated by a common language. 😂😂😂😂
George Bernard Shaw! Nicely done!
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Impeccable timing
My local DJ did a remix on Abbott and Costello's classic but switched it to bands playing at Woodstock. With band names The Who, Yes and Guess Who...
Our teacher played this video for us in school when I was about 10 years old. I remember the kids in my class couldn't keep it together when we first watched it, so our teacher had to play it for us a second time so we could really appreciate the joke in its entirety.
At one time Abbott & Costello were the highest payed actors in Hollywood. This was during WWII, May I suggest their film "Buck Privates",(Not for reaction, but to enjoy) that came out Dec 1941, Just before Pearl Harbor. It's their best work, and some cool swing music as well by the Andrew Sisters...
The pride of Paterson New Jersey Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
This is considered by many comedians to be the best comedy skit ever. It's all in the timing. Famous comedians like Jerry Seinfeld study this clip because of the timing.
The word play is famous but what drives the comedy is Lou Costello's inability to understand what's going on. The fact that we understand makes it funny. Bud Abbott is prob one of the best straight men out there. He isnthe one that anchors us to the skit. We know what he's talking about when he says Who's on first. When they are talking about the paychecks and Lou asks Who gets the money? And Bud's answer is Naturally. We know what he's saying but we started laughing in anticipation to Lou's reaction, which is going to be drenched in confusion.
But this is where I think they are geniuses. Usually in comedy skits where you have one guy who knows what he's talking about and the other is confused, the guy in the know is traditionally the fast talker and the guy who is confused as the slow talker. Think of a skit like a city slicker meeting a country rube. But in this skit, they turned it around. The "rube" is the fast talker. In a way they become the fast talker and we become the rube. Amazing stuff.
You do realize that this is an old Is vaudeville act. I believe the first time it was done on television was with gracie and allen. Years before this one.
I am 51 years old and my dad Sat me down when I was maybe 5 or 6 years old and said this is funny and you'll still be laughing at it when you are their age. He was right. It's the perfect comedy sketch. Slapstick, timing, word play. There's no room for improvement.
Abbott and Costello do a skit "7 times 13 equals 28" that is worth watching. You can find it on youtube without any trouble.
The 24 x 7 I think is my fav skit of theirs
My dad and I used to watch these guys all the time.
I can't find it on youtube to link it, but funny as this is, I always thought the Fabric Mill skit was even better.
Hey, Abbot, your brother got a job at that big Textile Mill in town, what's he do there?
He dyes for a lving.
He DIES for a living?
Of course; he's highly skilled at dyeing; he has a lot of experience.
He has experience at dying?!?
Well yeah, he teaches the newer guys how to dye.
Why is he working? They should let him go home if he's dying.
Oh no, his wife would never let him dye at home; think of the smell!
And so on from there.
RIDICULOUSLY CLASSIC FUNNY SKIT! NEVER GETS OLD!😮😊😊😊😊😊😊
This is actually a later version of the skit. It originally appeared in a film (don't ask me which, I can't recall), but it got so much love that they wound up doing it in live appearances. They would add bits in to keep it fresh for them, but the core idea stays the same. Of course, you can see where the Two Ronnies got their 'four candles' idea from.
An abridged version of this skit was featured in Abbott and Costello's 1940 film debut, One Night in the Tropics. The duo reprized the bit in their 1945 film The Naughty Nineties and it is that longer version which is considered their finest recorded rendition. This version is from The Abbott and Costello Show episode 'The Actor's Home'.
Booby was Bobby, who handed Lou his props.
The movie was the 1945 film "The Naughty Nineties". It is this version that is considered their best. It is played on a continuous loop at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
This bit is in the baseball hall of fame
Daz says, "It's hard to understand Lou (Costello), because he speaks such a weird language." 😉😃
It’s not slap-stick. It’s AMAZING word-play! It’s so classic that if you look up “comedy” in an American dictionary it very well may have a picture of this.
Abbot and Costello were renowned for their timing and rapid-fire delivery.
When I was a child I grew up watching their films on tv, I remember the short guy (lou Costello) always got short changed with a funny money trick.
As Brits, you'd know more about the game of cricket. One famous commentary occurred during a match between the West Indies and England. The West Indian bowler was Michael Holding. The English batsman was Peter Willy. The commentator blurted out "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willy".
I watch a lot of British tv shows and always have closed caption on so I know what they're saying. So it's hilarious to hear the panel complain that they can't understand what's being said. 😅
The skit is so famous it is in the Baseball hall of fame.
This comedy skit is so iconic that it's actually been inshrined in the Baseball Hall Of Fame & is without a doubt the greatest comedy skit of all time .
That was straight english. Had not problems understanding what they are staying.
They also did this type of skit in the rush hour movie.
There's a center fielder named Rick Monday. That could be a more modern version of comedy skit!
I love how this skit is so funny, that it makes people laugh decades after these guys have died. The true mark of a classic comedy skit.
I started off thinking "what are they on about, they aren't that hard to understand..." But then I remembered all the reactions when I showed fellow Americans the Two Ronnies "Fork Handles" sketch ....
"Who's On First?" is a VERY famous comedy bit that Abbott and Costello used to do. Over the years some comedians have tried to replicate it but NEVER as good as the original.
I love the 29 minute version of this sketch. Such a simple concept. A famous ball player like Joe DiMaggio recovering from a foot operation asks Costello to fill in for him so he looks to find out the other players on the team. Throw in Marilyn Maxwell and Skinnay Ennis who both sing a number each and you have a fantastic sketch. “Who’s on First?” What a scream.
Check out Costello doing math. It still blows my mind.
Abbott and Costello started off as friends, but then grew to really dislike each other. They did this skit all in one shot.
You should see the bit on how Costello explains to Lou how 7x13=28. It’s factually incorrect, yes, but if you see the clips on how he explains it, he’ll almost convince you he’s right. They do it by division, multiplication, and addition-and Costello gets the same answer every time.
Abbott: “Did you go to school, stupid?”
Costello: “Yes! And I came out the same way!”
Lou Costello was born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City. His rapid fire speaking style was typical of us folks that grew up in the "burbs" around the City. They had a TV series in the early 50's that was played in syndication on a few NYC television stations plus their feature length movies were played often during my childhood in the 1960's. Their skits were many and hilarious.
You guys took me right back to my childhood and driving for vacation with my parents when you pulled this one up.
I remember seeing this on TV decades ago when they had a show on Saturdays. They'd play some of their old bits and movies when I was a kid.
Fun fact: Bud Abbott was born in a circus tent.
I expect the first time they did this skit, or whichever variation on it, they had to rehearse it a fair bit to get the timing. Keep in mind though, that by the time this came out in an Abbott and Costello movie, they'd done it for years by then, as it was first done on their radio show sometime in the mid 1940s. (One thing Ill remember about that episode was the commercial for Camel cigarettes. Becaause more doctors smoke Camel than any other brand of cigarette.) But it's worth noting it was just as funny during its first outing as it was in later renditions. Other takes on a similar theme, like renting a car called a U-Drive, obviously, weren't, to my mind, nearly as successful.
Old stage comedians and vauldville acts dating back to the beginning of the 1900s used to have routines involving wordplay like this. Abbott and Costello developed their bit in the 1930s revolving around the idea that baseball players at that time tended to have odd nicknames. They performed it many times on stage, and then later on for radio and a couple of their movies. The version you watched here was performed on their television show in the 1950s.
No one else could do word play like the Marx brothers.
If you liked this, there's another Abbott and Costello bit called "7 x 13 = 28" that's also amazing.
If they do, then they need to make sure to get the full length version that is more than 4 minutes long. Floating around, there has been a shorter condensed version that chops out the first 30 seconds. That is annoying.
0:20 my great aunt had all their movies and I watched them all and loved them. Also love it’s a mad mad mad mad world
This is an oldie but a goldie. It's even before my time even though I first heard this joke off a (cassette) tape of the original radio broadcast some 40 years ago. That one wasn't as smooth as this, but it still packs the same punch. They've done this joke many times to the point that it is almost reflexive for them.
It's much easier to understand the joke if you think of the first baseman as a Chinaman named "Hu".
The statement "Hu is on first" vs. the question "Who is on first?"
The statement "You throw the ball to Hu" vs. the question "You throw the ball to who?".
The legendary pair have quite a few hilarious comedies out there. If possible, find the one with "mudder" and "fodder". I don't know if they are in video format. I heard the audio from radio broadcasts.
The reaction reminds me watching British reactors and sometimes I put subtitles on so I get everything. Not joking. You guys I can understand ... some Brits the words just fly past my ears .. mostly.
Another Abbott & Costello classic that is absolutely hilarious is the sketch "Loafing". You'll love it!
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It's classic because we've all been in the situation of trying to explain something to someone and they're just not getting it.
Bud Abbott and Lue Costello, both comedians… however, in those days they had to team up if they were to make a decent living.
Yet because Abbott was the “brain” of the two was paid more because he wrote most of their dialogue… however, Costello had a problem with stage fright and would drink to loosen up… which became an eventual problem…
But they were so great as a team, they were invited to do movie comedy as well.
The most amazing thing about this is that is was original done for one of their movies and it was completely ad-lib
Very funny and very complicated amazing they could do this every show with no mistakes.😅
As kids, we used to do this bit as we played baseball back in the 80's. Abbott and Costello are the only people to make it to the baseball hall of fame who had nothing to do with the actual game of baseball.
This bit is enshrined in the MLB Baseball hall of fame. The only non coaches or players in the hall.
Costello adopted the voice when they first started appearing on radio and they were told they sounded too similar. They had previously been vaudeville performers. This bit comes from early in their careers - by the time this was filmed it was already well-known.
One of the best comedy duos
That skit is GENIUS
Another routine equally funny is "13 x 7 = 28".
This version is slightly different than the recording of Who's On First I grew up with. Lou Costello even gets a little angrier in this one It still had me laughing!
Next Abbot and Costello you need to watch is 7x13 goes into 28
It was hard to understand…Yanks and Brits. Separated by an ocean and a language in common.😁🇺🇸🇬🇧
You've gotta do their "7 into 28" skit now....
It is an act that never gets old. They were just one of many great comedy teams.
First Base-Who
Second Base-What
Third Base-I Don’t Know
Pitcher-Tomorrow
Catcher-Today
Shortstop-I Don’t Give a Darn
Left Field-Why
Center Field-Because
Right Field-Nobody
Benny Hill was and still is a Great Show
Not only did Lou talk very fast, making it difficult for British viewers, but Bud had a bit of a New York accent. So sometimes it can be hard to understand. This bit dates from radio in the late 1930s and they first performed it on film in One Night in the Tropics (1940). They rarely performed it the same way twice.
A Few years ago a MLB player with the last name HU pronounced Who got to first Base. The Baseball announcer said I have waited a Lifetime to be able to say HU is one First.
When people say we get both smarter in some ways and dumber in others, this reaction shows that in spades.
Nothing will ever be funnier than misunderstanding.
It's been said we are two nations separated by a common language. I'll admit that when Lou Costello starts talking fast, with his "New York" accent, even I, an American, can miss some of it. I loved watching Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Monty Python's Flying Circus, etc. when I was younger. More recently, I've watched shows like Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served? and Keeping Up Appearances. Even as an adult, I occasionally miss some of what is said on all of those shows, but they are all hilarious. I hope you are well, one year later. Great video! You seem like a nice family.
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I like when people first reaction to Abbott And Costello think Costello talks fast.
I also love the Abbott and Costello skit of 13 goes into 28 seven times. If you haven't seen it check out.
The girl said this was simple comedy and, yes, to an extent. There's no big gags or flashy props but is it so simple? This is, by far, the greatest sports skit in the world.
Abbott and Costello did this bit all the time. Live. Just think of having to memorize all that and do it perfectly because one misstep and the whole flow ends.
Masters at the craft. No denying.
I have watched this numerous times. It was labeled as the comedic routine of the 20th Century. I got it the first time I heard it when I was a boy. Maybe because I knew baseball and understood the fact that they gave sportsmen funny nick names. Not sure why you can't get the humor when you're told that the premise was based on nick names, and therein lies the comedy routine.
This reaction is a classic example of two countries separated by a common language. 😂
In one of their versions of this routine, Naturally was actually one of the players.
Abbott and Costello were so good at this routine that they could shorten it or lengthen it on TV or radio depending how much time they had to fill in. If they had 2 1/2 minutes to fill in, they could do this routine in that time. By far this is one of my favorite routines.