I posted this last year… it bears repeating…
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I work for a large semiconductor company and I’ve done this at work a couple of times, and even engineers will react like Abbot. It’s fun, especially when the younguns have never seen the skit.
Kevin… there were a pair of twin brothers in my university who could do the “Who’s On First” routine perfectly…. it was hilarious every time and I saw them do it at least 5 times. Smash hit every time.
Abbot and Costello each had the perfect ability to be exasperated and/or credulous whenever the routine required it. Perfect.
The Senate is absolutely clueless. Funding increases for several departments, and a pay raise for federal employees, but cutting out the military budget for a later extortion. There must be a huge vacuum in DC that sucks out common sense.
Who’s on First features in many of our engineering meetings…but, sadly, not intentionally.
also, Slowly I turned…again, another routine that seems oddly appropriate at work at times…
but how often do people mention Niagara Falls at a semiconductor company?
“that’s just not possible…”….Slowly I turned…
Hey, isn’t that Shemp?
Yes it is milady.
Shemp showed up in a number of their movies…
Kevin & Floyd, is it wrong for me to like Shemp? Because I do like Shemp and I don’t care what anyone thinks.
College Widow, I for one will admit that I think Shemp is funnier than Curly. He was actually a Stooge before Curly, in Vaudeville. He came back to the act when Curly got sick. I love Curly, but he played a cartoonish dope, while Shemp had some wit and reserve to his dopy act. Some of Shemp’s sight gags surpass anything Curly had done. I love the one when he gets his girlfriend’s poodle soaked and picks it up, then they cut away, and you see him ring it out like it’s a wet towel. Shemp’s getting slapped by Moe is even funnier because his long, slicked back hair gets frazzled. I look at Curly as mainstream Stooges, even though I like him.
Shemp is also great as WC Field’s bartender in “The Bank Dick”.
It’s wrong that you know who Shemp is, CW. You walked straight through the door labelled “no girls allowed.”
This thread brings to mind a signature line from Obama’s stump speech:
“As President, I will go through the federal budget, line-by-line, ending programs that we don’t need and making the ones we do need work better and cost less.”
If you read “Ball Four”, you’ll understand the following observation:
rrrrrrrrright.
Now this is a fine point, I think, but I always liked Shemp in the Abbot and Costello movies, but rather thought less of him as a stooge.
what I mean is…no one…but no one, could replace Curly. I apologize to Shemp fans and Joe Besser fans, but Curly is, and will always be, the third stooge.
I always viewed Shemp as so different than Curly that it’s unfair to compare them.Both were excellent at what they brought to the act. For me, it’s like four stooges.
Agreed, Mr. Sid.! Shemp was completely different than Curly. I feel both were brilliant at their work. Curly Joe, to me was a poor ringer for Curly.
Thanks everyone for affirming my affection for Shemp. Of course, I didn’t mean to imply that I didn’t like Curly. Both have their comedic gifts. I have to admit to that I don’t know much about the body of the Stooge’s work. I had no idea Shemp went back to the Vaudeville days. So much to know, so little time.
Mr. Sideous, I noticed Shemp in “The Bank Dick” in the Black Pussy Cat Cafe. Is the tune he whistled significant? I think it’s “Listen to the Mockingbird” or something like that. Isn’t that a Stooge reference or am I reading too much into it?
My favorite line is still “must have went to a Chief’s school.” I think I know too many Chiefs.