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<div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Comedy routine made famous by Abbott and Costello</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the novel, see <a href="/wiki/Who%27s_on_First_(novel)" title="Who's on First (novel)">Who's on First (novel)</a>. For the Voltron episode, see <a href="/wiki/Who%27s_on_First_(Voltron)" class="mw-redirect" title="Who's on First (Voltron)">Who's on First (Voltron)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AbbottCostelloWhosOnFirst.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/AbbottCostelloWhosOnFirst.jpg/220px-AbbottCostelloWhosOnFirst.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/AbbottCostelloWhosOnFirst.jpg/330px-AbbottCostelloWhosOnFirst.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/AbbottCostelloWhosOnFirst.jpg 2x" data-file-width="341" data-file-height="251" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello" title="Abbott and Costello">Abbott and Costello</a> performing "Who's on First?"</figcaption></figure> <p>"<b>Who's on First?</b>" is a <a href="/wiki/Sketch_comedy" title="Sketch comedy">comedy routine</a> made famous by American <a href="/wiki/Double_act" title="Double act">comedy duo</a> <a href="/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello" title="Abbott and Costello">Abbott and Costello</a>. The premise of the sketch is that <a href="/wiki/Bud_Abbott" title="Bud Abbott">Abbott</a> is identifying the players on a <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> team for <a href="/wiki/Lou_Costello" title="Lou Costello">Costello</a>. However, the players' names can simultaneously serve as the basis for questions (e.g., "<i>Who</i> is the <a href="/wiki/First_baseman" title="First baseman">first baseman</a>?") and responses (e.g., "The first baseman's name is <i>Who</i>."), leading to reciprocal misunderstanding and growing frustration between the performers. Although it is commonly known as "Who's on First?", Abbott and Costello frequently referred to it simply as "Baseball". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Who%27s_on_First%3F&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Who's on First?" is descended from minstrel and turn-of-the-century wordplay sketches. One of the most famous was developed by <a href="/wiki/Weber_and_Fields" class="mw-redirect" title="Weber and Fields">Weber and Fields</a> and called "I Work On Watt Street".<sup id="cite_ref-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other examples include "The Baker Scene" (the comedian "loafs" at a bakery located on Watt Street) and "Who Dyed" (the business owner is named "Who").<sup id="cite_ref-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1930 movie <i><a href="/wiki/Cracked_Nuts_(1931_film)" title="Cracked Nuts (1931 film)">Cracked Nuts</a></i>, comedians <a href="/wiki/Wheeler_%26_Woolsey" title="Wheeler & Woolsey">Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey</a> examine a map of a mythical kingdom with dialogue like this: "What is next to Which." "What is the name of the town next to Which?" "Yes." In British <a href="/wiki/Music_hall" title="Music hall">music halls</a>, comedian <a href="/wiki/Will_Hay" title="Will Hay">Will Hay</a> performed a routine in the early 1930s (and possibly earlier) as a schoolmaster interviewing a schoolboy named <a href="/wiki/Howe_(surname)" title="Howe (surname)">Howe</a>, who came from <a href="/wiki/Ware,_Hertfordshire" title="Ware, Hertfordshire">Ware</a>, but now lives in <a href="/wiki/Wye,_Kent" title="Wye, Kent">Wye</a>. By the early 1930s, a "Baseball Routine" had become a standard bit in <a href="/wiki/American_burlesque" title="American burlesque">burlesque</a> in the United States. Abbott's wife recalled him performing the routine with another comedian before teaming with Costello.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bud Abbott stated that it was taken from an older routine called "Who's the Boss?",<sup id="cite_ref-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a performance of which can be heard in an episode of the radio comedy program <i><a href="/wiki/It_Pays_to_Be_Ignorant" title="It Pays to Be Ignorant">It Pays to Be Ignorant</a></i> from the 1940s.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After they formally teamed up in burlesque in 1936, he and Costello continued to hone the sketch. It was a big hit in the fall of 1937, when they performed the routine in a touring <a href="/wiki/Vaudeville" title="Vaudeville">vaudeville</a> revue called <i>Hollywood Bandwagon</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 1938, Abbott and Costello joined the cast of <i>The <a href="/wiki/Kate_Smith" title="Kate Smith">Kate Smith</a> Hour</i> radio program and the sketch was first performed for a national radio audience on March 24 of that year.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-O'Dell_National_Registry_2002_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Dell_National_Registry_2002-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The routine may have been further polished before this broadcast by burlesque producer <a href="/wiki/John_Grant_(screenwriter)" title="John Grant (screenwriter)">John Grant</a>, who became the team's chief collaborator, and <a href="/wiki/Will_Glickman" title="Will Glickman">Will Glickman</a>, a staff writer on the Smith show.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Glickman may have added the nicknames of then-contemporary baseball players like <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Dean" title="Dizzy Dean">Dizzy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daffy_Dean" class="mw-redirect" title="Daffy Dean">Daffy Dean</a> to set up the routine's premise. This version, with extensive wordplay based on most of the fictional baseball team's players having "strange nicknames" that seemed to be questions, became known as "Who's on First?" Some versions continue with references to <a href="/wiki/Enos_Slaughter" title="Enos Slaughter">Enos Slaughter</a>, which Costello misunderstands as "He knows" Slaughter.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1944, Abbott and Costello had the routine copyrighted.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Abbott and Costello performed "Who's on First?" hundreds of times in their careers. Although it was rarely performed precisely the same way twice, the routine follows a definite structure.<sup id="cite_ref-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They did the routine for <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">President Franklin Roosevelt</a> several times. An abridged version was featured in the team's 1940 film debut, <i><a href="/wiki/One_Night_in_the_Tropics" title="One Night in the Tropics">One Night in the Tropics</a></i>. The duo reprised the bit in their 1945 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Naughty_Nineties" title="The Naughty Nineties">The Naughty Nineties</a></i> and it is that longer version which is considered their finest recorded rendition.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They also performed "Who's on First?" several times on radio and television (notably in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Abbott_and_Costello_Show" title="The Abbott and Costello Show">The Abbott and Costello Show</a></i> episode "The Actor's Home"). </p><p>In 1956, a gold record of "Who's on First?" was placed in the <a href="/wiki/National_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum" title="National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum">National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cooperstown,_New_York" title="Cooperstown, New York">Cooperstown, New York</a>. A video (taken from <i>The Naughty Nineties</i>) now plays continuously on screens at the Hall. </p><p>In the 1970s, <a href="/wiki/Selchow_and_Righter" title="Selchow and Righter">Selchow and Righter</a> published a "Who's on First?" board game. </p><p>In 1999, <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> named the routine Best Comedy Sketch of the 20th Century.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An early radio recording from October 6, 1938, was placed in the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>'s <a href="/wiki/National_Recording_Registry" title="National Recording Registry">National Recording Registry</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2005, the line "Who's on First?" was included on the <a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">American Film Institute</a>'s list of <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Movie_Quotes" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes">100 memorable movie quotations</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sketch">Sketch</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Who%27s_on_First%3F&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sketch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The names given in the routine for the players at each position are: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Position</th> <th>Player </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/First_baseman" title="First baseman">First base</a></td> <td>Who </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Second_baseman" title="Second baseman">Second base</a></td> <td>What </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Third_baseman" title="Third baseman">Third base</a></td> <td>I Don't Know </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Left_field" class="mw-redirect" title="Left field">Left field</a></td> <td>Why </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Center_field" class="mw-redirect" title="Center field">Center field</a></td> <td>Because </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pitcher" title="Pitcher">Pitcher</a></td> <td>Tomorrow </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Catcher" title="Catcher">Catcher</a></td> <td>Today </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shortstop" title="Shortstop">Shortstop</a></td> <td>I Don't Care <i>or</i> I Don't Give a Darn <i>or</i> I Don't Give a Damn </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The name of the shortstop is not given until the very end of the routine and the <a href="/wiki/Right_fielder" title="Right fielder">right fielder</a> is never identified. In the Selchow and Righter board game, the right fielder's name is "Nobody".<sup id="cite_ref-faq_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-faq-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At one point in the routine, Costello thinks that the first baseman is named "Naturally": </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Abbott: You throw the ball to first base.<br /> Costello: Then who gets it?<br /> Abbott: Naturally.<br /> Costello: Naturally.<br /> Abbott: Now you've got it.<br /> Costello: I throw the ball to Naturally.<br /> Abbott: You don't! You throw it to Who!<br /> Costello: Naturally.<br /> Abbott: Well, that's it—say it that way.<br /> Costello: That's what I said.<br /> Abbott: You did not.<br /> Costello: I said I throw the ball to Naturally.<br /> Abbott: You don't! You throw it to Who!<br /> Costello: Naturally. </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Abbott's explanations leave Costello hopelessly confused and infuriated, until the end of the routine when Costello appears to parody Abbott by saying what appears to be gibberish to him, but accidentally getting it right: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Costello: Now I throw the ball to first base, whoever it is drops the ball, so the guy runs to second. Who picks up the ball and throws it to What. What throws it to I Don't Know. I Don't Know throws it back to Tomorrow—a triple play.<br /> Abbott: Yeah, it could be.<br /> Costello: Another guy gets up and it's a long fly ball to Because. Why? I don't know. He's on third and I don't give a darn!<br /> Abbott: What was that?<br /> Costello: I said, I DON'T GIVE A DARN!<br /> Abbott: Oh, that's our shortstop! </p> </div></blockquote> <p>That is the most commonly heard ending. "I Don't Care" and "I Don't Give a <i>Damn</i>" have also turned up on occasion, depending on the perceived sensibilities of the audience. (The performance in the film <i>The Naughty Nineties</i> ends with "I Don't Care".) </p><p>The skit was usually performed on the team's radio series at the start of the baseball season. In one instance it serves as a climax for a broadcast which begins with Costello receiving a telegram from <a href="/wiki/Joe_DiMaggio" title="Joe DiMaggio">Joe DiMaggio</a> asking Costello to take over for him due to his injury.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (In this case, the unidentified right fielder would have been Costello himself. While Joe DiMaggio was best known as a center fielder, when Abbott and Costello honed the sketch in 1936–37, Joe DiMaggio had played a number of games at right field (20 in 1936).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing_credit">Writing credit</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Who%27s_on_First%3F&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing credit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Who's On First?" evolved from earlier wordplay sketches but it is not known who transposed the basic wordplay to baseball, although numerous people have claimed or been given credit for it. Such claims typically lack reasonable corroboration. For example, a 1993 obituary of comedy sketch writer Michael J. Musto (1919–1993) states that, shortly after Abbott and Costello teamed up, they paid Musto $15 to write the script.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several 1996 obituaries of songwriter <a href="/wiki/Irving_Gordon" title="Irving Gordon">Irving Gordon</a> (1915–1996) mention that he had written the sketch.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Musto would have been 17 when Abbott and Costello teamed in 1936, but a script entitled "The Baseball Rookie," with the names of Costello and Joe Lyons, his straight man before Abbott, dates even earlier, perhaps to 1934, when Musto would have been 15 and Gordon would have been 19. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Copyright_infringement_case">Copyright infringement case</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Who%27s_on_First%3F&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Copyright infringement case"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2015, the heirs of Abbott and Costello filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_New_York" title="United States District Court for the Southern District of New York">Southern District of New York</a> claiming unauthorized use of over a minute of the comedy routine in the play <i><a href="/wiki/Hand_to_God_(play)" title="Hand to God (play)">Hand to God</a></i>. The suit named producer Kevin McCollum, playwright Robert Askins, and the promoters as defendants. The defense claimed that the underlying "Who's on First?" routine was in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> because the original authors, Abbott and Costello, were not the ones who filed a copyright renewal, but the court did not see the need to make a final determination on that. The court ruled against the heirs, saying that the use by the play was <a href="/wiki/Transformative_use" title="Transformative use">transformative</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On appeal, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit">Second Circuit</a> affirmed the district court in 2016 but for the other reason. The one minute of the routine used in the play did <i>not</i> constitute transformative fair use, since it was a significant portion and was taken word for word.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But that was moot since the court also found that the heirs had failed to establish that they owned the copyright.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (The court did not reach the issue of whether the routine had entered the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> since the parties had apparently stipulated that they believed its copyright term was coterminous with <i><a href="/wiki/One_Night_in_the_Tropics" title="One Night in the Tropics">One Night in the Tropics</a></i>, where it had first been published for purposes of <a href="/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1909" title="Copyright Act of 1909">copyright law at that time</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The U.S. Supreme Court denied <i><a href="/wiki/Certiorari" title="Certiorari">certiorari</a></i> on the case in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Derivatives_and_references_in_popular_culture">Derivatives and references in popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Who%27s_on_First%3F&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Derivatives and references in popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreliable_sources plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-unreliable_sources" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/40px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/60px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/80px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">Some of this section's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">listed sources</a> <b>may not be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help improve this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The sketch has been reprised, updated, alluded to and parodied many times over the decades in all forms of media. Some examples include: </p> <ul><li>The comedy troupe <a href="/wiki/The_Credibility_Gap" title="The Credibility Gap">The Credibility Gap</a> (1968–1979) did a rock group variation on this routine involving a promoter, played by <a href="/wiki/Harry_Shearer" title="Harry Shearer">Harry Shearer</a> and a newspaper advertising salesman, played by <a href="/wiki/David_Lander" title="David Lander">David L. Lander</a>, confusing the night's acts as <a href="/wiki/Proper_nouns" class="mw-redirect" title="Proper nouns">proper nouns</a>. The acts were <a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">The Who</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Guess_Who" title="The Guess Who">The Guess Who</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yes_(band)" title="Yes (band)">Yes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_Levy" title="Eugene Levy">Eugene Levy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tony_Rosato" title="Tony Rosato">Tony Rosato</a> performed a variation on this theme on the TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Second_City_Television" title="Second City Television">SCTV</a></i> (1976–1984), with the rock groups <a href="/wiki/The_Band" title="The Band">The Band</a>, The Who and Yes. The final punchline changed to "This is for the birds (<a href="/wiki/The_Byrds" title="The Byrds">The Byrds</a>)!" "Ah, they broke up long ago!"<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Episode six of the fourth season of <i><a href="/wiki/WKRP_in_Cincinnati" title="WKRP in Cincinnati">WKRP in Cincinnati</a></i> (1981) is entitled "Who's on First?". It revolves around Mr. Carlson being mistaken for Herb Tarlek, and to "prove Andy wrong" Les Nessman is then convinced to act as Mr. Carlson. When a thug named Dave shows up to confront Johnny Fever about an unpaid gambling debt, Johnny claims Andy Travis's identity, while Mr. Carlson refers to Andy as "Johnny" ... with painful consequences for Andy.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Author and poet <a href="/wiki/Shel_Silverstein" title="Shel Silverstein">Shel Silverstein</a>'s poem "The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt", featured in his 1981 poetry collection <i><a href="/wiki/A_Light_in_the_Attic" title="A Light in the Attic">A Light in the Attic</a></i>, is stated in the afterword by Silverstein himself to have been inspired by Abbott and Costello's routine.</li> <li>The biography of Lou Costello written by his daughter Chris is titled <i>Lou's on First</i> (1982).<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the mid-1980s, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Carson" title="Johnny Carson">Johnny Carson</a>'s spoof of then-president <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> preparing for a press briefing included "Hu is on the phone", a reference to fictional Chinese leader Chung Dong Hu. Reagan also misunderstands references to Secretary of the Interior <a href="/wiki/James_G._Watt" title="James G. Watt">James Watt</a> (misheard as "what") and <a href="/wiki/PLO" class="mw-redirect" title="PLO">PLO</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Yassir_Arafat" class="mw-redirect" title="Yassir Arafat">Yassir Arafat</a> (misheard as "Yes sir").<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the 1988 film <i><a href="/wiki/Rain_Man" title="Rain Man">Rain Man</a></i>, the film's titular character, played by <a href="/wiki/Dustin_Hoffman" title="Dustin Hoffman">Dustin Hoffman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stimming" title="Stimming">stims</a> by reciting the skit to himself whenever his brother Charlie, played by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Cruise" title="Tom Cruise">Tom Cruise</a>, makes him anxious by meddling with his personal effects.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Animaniacs" title="Animaniacs">Animaniacs</a></i> segment "Woodstock Slappy" (1994), <a href="/wiki/Slappy_Squirrel" class="mw-redirect" title="Slappy Squirrel">Slappy and Skippy Squirrel</a> attend the 1969 <a href="/wiki/Woodstock_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodstock Festival">Woodstock Festival</a>, where they pay homage to the routine. Similar to the SCTV version, Slappy confuses <a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">The Who</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Band" title="The Band">The Band</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yes_(band)" title="Yes (band)">Yes</a> for proper nouns.<sup id="cite_ref-Animaniacs_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Animaniacs-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-peace_train_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peace_train-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Neptune_Men" title="Invasion of the Neptune Men">Invasion of the Neptune Men</a></i> episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000" title="Mystery Science Theater 3000">Mystery Science Theater 3000</a></i> in 1998, during one host segment, Mike and the 'Bots put on a Who's on First-themed skit concerning Japanese <a href="/wiki/Noh" title="Noh">Noh</a> Theater.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mad_(magazine)" title="Mad (magazine)">Mad Magazine</a>'s February 1999 issue featured an article (written by <a href="/wiki/Desmond_Devlin" title="Desmond Devlin">Desmond Devlin</a> and illustrated by <a href="/wiki/Mort_Drucker" title="Mort Drucker">Mort Drucker</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of Abbott and Costello trying to organize <a href="/wiki/MTV" title="MTV">MTV</a>'s music video library, with Costello getting confused by the names of songs such as "<a href="/wiki/Give_Me_One_Reason" title="Give Me One Reason">Give Me One Reason</a>", "<a href="/wiki/You_Oughta_Know" title="You Oughta Know">You Oughta Know</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Ironic_(song)" title="Ironic (song)">Ironic</a>", "<a href="/wiki/What_You_Want_(Mase_song)" title="What You Want (Mase song)">What You Want</a>", "<a href="/wiki/I_Still_Haven%27t_Found_What_I%27m_Looking_For" title="I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For">I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Speak" title="Don't Speak">Don't Speak</a>", "<a href="/wiki/If_It_Makes_You_Happy" title="If It Makes You Happy">If It Makes You Happy</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Stop_(Spice_Girls_song)" title="Stop (Spice Girls song)">Stop</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Quit_Playing_Games_(with_My_Heart)" title="Quit Playing Games (with My Heart)">Quit Playing Games</a>". The names of bands <a href="/wiki/U2" title="U2">U2</a> and <a href="/wiki/No_Doubt" title="No Doubt">No Doubt</a> also cause confusion.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Marge_Simpson_in:_%27Screaming_Yellow_Honkers%27" class="mw-redirect" title="Marge Simpson in: 'Screaming Yellow Honkers'">Marge Simpson in: 'Screaming Yellow Honkers'</a><span style="padding-left:.15em;">"</span>, (1999) <a href="/wiki/Superintendent_Chalmers" class="mw-redirect" title="Superintendent Chalmers">Superintendent Chalmers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Principal_Skinner" title="Principal Skinner">Principal Skinner</a> attempt to perform the routine, but Chalmers gives up after Skinner explains the joke with his first line: "Not the pronoun, but rather a player with the unlikely name of "Who" is on first."<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_PJ%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="The PJ's">The PJ's</a></i> episode "The HJs", (2000) Thurgood reopens the apartment building's radio station and forms an unexpected comedy team with the community's beloved crack addict, Smokey. They parody the comedy bit with Smokey saying, "Who's on crack, Say What's on smack, and I Don't Know is on freebase."</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Family_Guy" title="Family Guy">Family Guy</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Extra_Large_Medium" title="Extra Large Medium">Extra Large Medium</a>", Peter Griffin, in his psychic routine, attempts to solve a case for the police (namely, a person being buried alive with a bomb attached to him) by "summoning the spirit" of Lou Costello. He and the police officer, Joe Swanson, then reenact the routine when it's revealed the person's name is Melvin Hu. Unfortunately, they do the scene so long that the bomb explodes and kills him, at which time Peter dropped the act and admitted he wasn't a psychic.</li> <li>In 2002, playwright Jim Sherman wrote a variation called "Hu's on First" featuring <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> being confused when <a href="/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice">Condoleezza Rice</a> tells him that the new leader of China is named <a href="/wiki/Hu_Jintao" title="Hu Jintao">Hu</a>, pronounced similarly to the word "Who". Bush also misunderstands Rice's references to <a href="/wiki/Yassir_Arafat" class="mw-redirect" title="Yassir Arafat">Yassir Arafat</a> ("yes, sir") and <a href="/wiki/Kofi_Annan" title="Kofi Annan">Kofi Annan</a> ("coffee").<sup id="cite_ref-latimeshu_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimeshu-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. He also hears Rice introduce herself, particularly using her last name, while talking on the phone and immediately craves rice, wanting to order some to eat.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Get_Fuzzy" title="Get Fuzzy">Get Fuzzy</a></i> comic for September 12, 2005, an injured Rob asks Satchel to use <a href="/wiki/Speed_dial" title="Speed dial">speed dial</a> to call "Dr Watt", who is second on the speed dial list after Dr. Hu. Satchel gleefully replies "Third Base!", much to Rob's annoyance.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the 2007 film <a href="/wiki/Rush_Hour_3" title="Rush Hour 3">Rush Hour 3</a>, LAPD Detective James Carter (<a href="/wiki/Chris_Tucker" title="Chris Tucker">Chris Tucker</a>) visits a <a href="/wiki/Kung_Fu" class="mw-redirect" title="Kung Fu">Kung Fu</a> studio where he meets Master Yu and an instructor named Mi. Carter, Yu and Mi engage in a comedic back and forth in which they confuse the names Yu and Mi with the words "you" and "me".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2007, Canadian Internet comedy group <a href="/wiki/LoadingReadyRun" title="LoadingReadyRun">LoadingReadyRun</a> released a parody called <i>It's Very Simple</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Late_Night_with_Jimmy_Fallon" title="Late Night with Jimmy Fallon">Late Night with Jimmy Fallon</a></i>, in December 2012, featured a variation of the routine called "Who's on First?: The Sequel". Depicted with vintage touches (black and white images, retro costumes, etc.), the skit finds host <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Fallon" title="Jimmy Fallon">Jimmy Fallon</a> in the Bud Abbott role and announcer <a href="/wiki/Steve_Higgins" title="Steve Higgins">Steve Higgins</a> as Lou Costello. The twist here is that "Who", "What" and "I Don't Know" actually join in on the quick repartee, with the players respectively played by <a href="/wiki/Billy_Crystal" title="Billy Crystal">Billy Crystal</a>, <i>Late Night</i> head writer <a href="/wiki/A._D._Miles" title="A. D. Miles">A. D. Miles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld" title="Jerry Seinfeld">Jerry Seinfeld</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/BoJack_Horseman" title="BoJack Horseman">Bojack Horseman</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Downer_Ending" class="mw-redirect" title="Downer Ending">Downer Ending</a>", (2014) a group of characters encounter a doctor named Allan Hu, which Bojack at first confuses with BBC television show <a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a>; which Bojack's roommate Todd Sanchez further confuses for <a href="/wiki/Doctor_Quinn,_Medicine_Woman" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman">Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman</a>. In utter confusion,Todd at one point says "I don't know", to which all the characters simultaneously exclaim "Third base!".<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The October 19, 2014, strip of the comic <i><a href="/wiki/Pearls_Before_Swine_(comics)" title="Pearls Before Swine (comics)">Pearls Before Swine</a></i> sees Rat ask Goat "Whose drummer was <a href="/wiki/Keith_Moon" title="Keith Moon">Keith Moon</a>?" Goat responds that he is correct, although Rat does not understand that Goat is telling him Moon was the drummer for <a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">The Who</a>. It leads to a routine of more confusions, including <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Watts" title="Charlie Watts">Charlie Watts</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">The Rolling Stones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Weir" title="Bob Weir">Bob Weir</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Grateful_Dead" title="Grateful Dead">Grateful Dead</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Howe" title="Steve Howe">Steve Howe</a> of <a href="/wiki/Yes_(band)" title="Yes (band)">Yes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pete_Townshend" title="Pete Townshend">Pete Townshend</a> – also of The Who. Thinking Goat is asking what band Townshend is the guitarist for, an exasperated Rat screams "I don't know!" Goat replies "Third base!" The final panel sees the still-exasperated Rat threatening to hit the comic's author <a href="/wiki/Stephan_Pastis" title="Stephan Pastis">Stephan Pastis</a> with a baseball bat, asking "When would you like this hit?". Pastis responds "<a href="/wiki/Steve_Winwood" title="Steve Winwood">Winwood</a>'s the guitarist for <a href="/wiki/Traffic_(band)" title="Traffic (band)">Traffic</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The 2015 puzzle video game <i><a href="/wiki/Keep_Talking_and_Nobody_Explodes" title="Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes">Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes</a></i> features a module officially referred to on page 9 of the Bomb Defusal Manual V1 <sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as Who's on First. Its description reads: <i>"This contraption is like something out of a sketch comedy routine, which might be funny if it wasn't connected to a bomb. I’ll keep this brief, as words only complicate matters"</i>. The module works similarly to the routine, in which the Defuser must recite the word that appears on the module's display to the Expert. The Expert must then follow the steps in the manual to tell the Defuser which button to press. The reference comes in the form of the words that appear on the module's buttons, some of them being <a href="/wiki/Homophones" class="mw-redirect" title="Homophones">homophones</a> of other words that may appear, an example being the words there, they're and their, thus resulting in a similar confusion to that of the sketch.</li> <li>In 2017, <i><a href="/wiki/Studio_C" title="Studio C">Studio C</a></i> made a spin-off of this as a sketch in their seventh season, titled <i>Detective Doctor, At Your Service</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where several characters have names such as Detective Doctor, Doctor Hisbrother and Officer Wounded, making the scene of an attempted murder much more confusing to deal with.</li> <li>Emcee duo Blanche Debris and <a href="/wiki/Jonny_Porkpie" title="Jonny Porkpie">Jonny Porkpie</a> did an adaptation of the sketch at the 2017 <a href="/wiki/Burlesque_Hall_of_Fame" title="Burlesque Hall of Fame">Burlesque Hall of Fame</a> weekender and reunion, recontextualized as the lineup for a burlesque show.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In season 11 of <i><a href="/wiki/All_That" title="All That">All That</a></i> (2019), the "Good Burger" sketch used the routine, in which <a href="/wiki/Kel_Mitchell" title="Kel Mitchell">Kel Mitchell</a>'s character Ed became confused when musical guest <a href="/wiki/H.E.R." title="H.E.R.">H.E.R.</a> walked in to place an order after she told him who she was.</li> <li>A variant of unknown origin, called "Abbot and Costello do Hebrew", is popular in the Jewish American community. Its humor draws from the homophonic similarity of a number of words in English – hu, he, me, ma and dag are homophones of the Hebrew words for he, she, who, what and fish respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The skit is an <a href="/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)" title="Easter egg (media)">easter egg</a> on <a href="/wiki/Google_Assistant" title="Google Assistant">Google Assistant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Siri" title="Siri">Siri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Alexa" title="Amazon Alexa">Amazon Alexa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bixby_(virtual_assistant)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bixby (virtual assistant)">Bixby</a>. Asking Google Assistant "OK Google, Who's on first?" will lead to the response "Yes, he is." or "Exactly."<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Siri responds "Correct. Who is on first."<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alexa responds "That's what I keep telling you. Who's on first, What's on second." Bixby responds "I think Who gets the ball and throws it to What."</li> <li>There are several American restaurants named "Who's on First", located on 1st Street or 1st Avenue of their respective cities, including <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Waconia, MN <sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Snohomish,_WA" class="mw-redirect" title="Snohomish, WA">Snohomish, WA</a><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the spring split of 2022, <a href="/wiki/League_Championship_Series_(esports)" title="League Championship Series (esports)">League Championship Series</a> casters Azael and Captain Flowers performed a spin-off of the skit<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> using "River" and "Blue", the tags of two players from the <a href="/wiki/Esports" title="Esports">esports</a> team <a href="/wiki/Dignitas_(esports)" title="Dignitas (esports)">Dignitas</a> as well as the river location and blue jungle camp on <a href="/wiki/Summoner%27s_Rift" class="mw-redirect" title="Summoner's Rift">Summoner's Rift</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Real-life_parallels">Real-life parallels</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Who%27s_on_First%3F&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Real-life parallels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On several occasions, players with names phonetically similar to the characters in the sketch reached the appropriate bases as runners, or defended them as infielders: </p> <ul><li>On October 3, 1920, <a href="/wiki/Allie_Watt" title="Allie Watt">Allie Watt</a> played one game at second base for the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%9360)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Senators (1901–60)">Washington Senators</a><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so that, for a brief time, "Watt's on second".<sup id="cite_ref-script_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-script-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>During a May 31, 1966, game against the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Twins" title="Minnesota Twins">Minnesota Twins</a>, relief-pitcher <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Watt" title="Eddie Watt">Eddie Watt</a> of the Baltimore Orioles led off the 5th inning with his only career double, again creating a "Watt's on second" situation.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In September 2007, <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> <a href="/wiki/Shortstop" title="Shortstop">shortstop</a> <a href="/wiki/Chin-Lung_Hu" title="Chin-Lung Hu">Chin-Lung Hu</a>, a late-season callup from <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aviators" title="Las Vegas Aviators">Las Vegas</a>, got his first major league hit against the <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Diamondbacks" title="Arizona Diamondbacks">Arizona Diamondbacks</a>, a single; Dodgers announcer <a href="/wiki/Vin_Scully" title="Vin Scully">Vin Scully</a> said "Shades of Abbott and Costello, I can finally say, 'Hu is on first base.<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>"<sup id="cite_ref-Hu_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hu-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Who%27s_on_First%3F&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Baseball.svg/28px-Baseball.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Baseball.svg/42px-Baseball.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Baseball.svg/56px-Baseball.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="520" data-file-height="520" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Baseball" title="Portal:Baseball">Baseball portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge" title="Curse of knowledge">Curse of knowledge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propositional_attitude" title="Propositional attitude">Propositional attitude</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Shakespearean_Baseball_Game" title="A Shakespearean Baseball Game">A Shakespearean Baseball Game</a>", a <a href="/wiki/Wayne_and_Shuster" title="Wayne and Shuster">Wayne and Shuster</a> sketch first performed in 1958</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Candles" title="Four Candles">Four Candles</a>, a sketch from the British sketch comedy program <i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Ronnies" title="The Two Ronnies">The Two Ronnies</a></i>, first performed in 1976, with a similar premise involving misinterpreted phrases.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Who%27s_on_First%3F&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Director <a href="/wiki/Jean_Yarbrough" title="Jean Yarbrough">Jean Yarbrough</a> did two takes, possibly because the first was marred by laughter from the <a href="/wiki/Film_crew" title="Film crew">film crew</a>. Yet even on the take that is used in the film, it is possible to hear muffled laughs in the background.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Who%27s_on_First%3F&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Palumbo_National_Registry_2002_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFPalumbo2002" class="citation web cs1">Palumbo, Ron (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/WhosOnFirst-Palumbo.pdf">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Who's on First?" – Abbott and Costello (Earliest Existing Radio Broadcast Version) (October 6, 1938)"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 3,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Library+of+Congress&rft.atitle=%22Who%27s+on+First%3F%22+%E2%80%93+Abbott+and+Costello+%28Earliest+Existing+Radio+Broadcast+Version%29+%28October+6%2C+1938%29&rft.date=2002&rft.aulast=Palumbo&rft.aufirst=Ron&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fstatic%2Fprograms%2Fnational-recording-preservation-board%2Fdocuments%2FWhosOnFirst-Palumbo.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWho%27s+on+First%3F" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-autogenerated1-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFurmanekPalumbo1991" class="citation book cs1">Furmanek, Bob; Palumbo, Ron (1991). <i>Abbott and Costello in Hollywood</i>. New York: Perigee. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-399-51605-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-399-51605-0"><bdi>0-399-51605-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Abbott+and+Costello+in+Hollywood&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Perigee&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=0-399-51605-0&rft.aulast=Furmanek&rft.aufirst=Bob&rft.au=Palumbo%2C+Ron&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWho%27s+on+First%3F" class="Z3988"></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (April 2015)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation audio-visual cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ItPaysToBeIgnorantOtr/ItPaysToBeIgnorant46-01-04000WhatDidTheBaggyPants-legSayToTheOther.mp3"><i>What Did the Baggy Pants-Leg Say to the Other?</i></a>. <i><a href="/wiki/It_Pays_to_Be_Ignorant" title="It Pays to Be Ignorant">It Pays to Be Ignorant</a></i>. January 4, 1946<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 21,</span> 2011</span> – via <a href="/wiki/Archive.org" class="mw-redirect" title="Archive.org">Archive.org</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=What+Did+the+Baggy+Pants-Leg+Say+to+the+Other%3F&rft.date=1946-01-04&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2FItPaysToBeIgnorantOtr%2FItPaysToBeIgnorant46-01-04000WhatDidTheBaggyPants-legSayToTheOther.mp3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWho%27s+on+First%3F" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediafire.com/view/dy350x8lwmu3ws8/.png">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Hollywood Bandwagon' Set for Five Weeks"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i>. August 25, 1937<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 17,</span> 2019</span> – via <a href="/wiki/MediaFire" title="MediaFire">MediaFire</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Variety&rft.atitle=%27Hollywood+Bandwagon%27+Set+for+Five+Weeks&rft.date=1937-08-25&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediafire.com%2Fview%2Fdy350x8lwmu3ws8%2F.png&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWho%27s+on+First%3F" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKiley1937" class="citation magazine cs1">Kiley (November 17, 1937). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediafire.com/view/lob5c6642052t2m/.png">"House Reviews: Lyric, Indpls"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 17,</span> 2019</span> – via <a href="/wiki/MediaFire" title="MediaFire">MediaFire</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Variety&rft.atitle=House+Reviews%3A+Lyric%2C+Indpls&rft.date=1937-11-17&rft.au=Kiley&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediafire.com%2Fview%2Flob5c6642052t2m%2F.png&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWho%27s+on+First%3F" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-O'Dell_National_Registry_2002-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-O'Dell_National_Registry_2002_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Dell2002" class="citation web cs1">O'Dell, Cary (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/WhosOnFirst.pdf">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Who's on First?" – Abbott and Costello (Earliest Existing Radio Broadcast Version) (October 6, 1938)"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 3,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Library+of+Congress&rft.atitle=%22Who%27s+on+First%3F%22+%E2%80%93+Abbott+and+Costello+%28Earliest+Existing+Radio+Broadcast+Version%29+%28October+6%2C+1938%29&rft.date=2002&rft.aulast=O%27Dell&rft.aufirst=Cary&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fprograms%2Fstatic%2Fnational-recording-preservation-board%2Fdocuments%2FWhosOnFirst.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWho%27s+on+First%3F" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This claim is made by Glickman's son. 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