Fun Talents of Dubious Utility
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athelindI am sufficiently well-versed in the classic Abbott and Costello routine, "Who's On First", and the principles behind it to be able to improvise entirely new variations of the routine extemporaneously.
This only works if you have two people who can do it, however.
The key thing to remember is that the person in the "Abbott" roll always interprets the various ambiguous words as names, while "Costello" always interprets them as descriptors -- pronouns, adjectives, times of day, etc. Naturally, there's an exception.
This only works if you have two people who can do it, however.
The key thing to remember is that the person in the "Abbott" roll always interprets the various ambiguous words as names, while "Costello" always interprets them as descriptors -- pronouns, adjectives, times of day, etc. Naturally, there's an exception.
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Date: 2008-04-12 08:32 pm (UTC)(see Planet Terror)
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Date: 2008-04-13 03:53 pm (UTC)(No, I don't know the rest of it)
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Date: 2008-04-14 02:47 am (UTC)I think their classic "Who's On First" was used several times ( with different variations) on their radio show.
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Date: 2008-04-14 03:08 am (UTC)I know they did other word-confusion bits, but the only one I know I've heard is "Hertz U-Drive". "If it HURTS, YOU drive!"
YouTube has one version of "Who" with Spanish subtitles. They're utterly hilarious if you have even a smattering of high school Spanish. I found them especially amusing because a few years back, when I was taking Spanish in college, we had to do memorized dialogues in front of the class every chapter. One chapter introduced all of the appropriate "question words" -- and my partner and I had no choice but to do an abbreviated version.
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Date: 2008-04-14 05:11 pm (UTC)A: Nome? (referring to Nome, Alaska, which is where they were headed, which is why they were talking about a car)
C: Of course I know 'im, he's my uncle!"
But that's the only line from it that I can remember.
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Date: 2008-04-14 10:16 pm (UTC)...somewhere.