In honour of the onset of the preseason baseball season, here’s two takes on a comedy classic, Who’s On First? First up is a recent homage to the original featuring Jimmy Fallon, Steve Higgins, Billy Crystal, A.D. Miles and Jerry Seinfeld. Following that will be Bud Abbott and Lou Costello‘s famous version from the 1945 film Naughty Nineties. Here’s the Fallon version…
Now, here the masters do the original…
Chico and Harpo Marx in a scene from 1941’s The Big Store…
In this 1941 film, Hellzapoppin, pianist Slim Gaillard and bassist Slam Stewart, better known as Slim & Slam, enter an empty scene and begin an astonishing masterpiece of swing jazz and Lindy dancing. On trumpet is Rex Stewart…
At the end of Charlie Chaplin‘s 1940 anti-fascist satire, The Great Dictator, Chaplin, playing a Jewish barber forced to impersonate the Hitler-like tyrant he resembles, gives one of the most inspiring speeches in film history…
midnight gravy 