One of Abbott and Costello’s most famous routines was “Who’s on First?” Well yesterday on Late Night, Jimmy Fallon recreated the bit playing Bud Abbott and Steve Higgins as Lou Costello. But unlike the original bit they added Who, What and IDontKnow to the NBC show’s take on it and I think it might’ve actually made it even funnier. Granted it could be because Billy Crystal was Who and Jerry Seinfeld was IDontKnow, but I think it was more than that. It just added a whole new level of mayhem to the gag having the basemen join in, don’t you agree?
The only problem I had with it, is Fallon is the man of many voices and yet he kinda sucked as Bud Abbott. That and I wish that Robin Williams played What or IDontKnow!
If you say I don’t know who Abbott and Costello are and what Who’s on First? is, then you can watch them do it below from the 1945 movie The Naughty Nineties!
Billy Crystal and Bette Midler are playing a married couple in Parental Guidance, so what else do I need to tell you to make you want see this movie when it comes out on Christmas? Well maybe if they cast someone else to play their daughter besides Marissa Tomei, but I know am willing to overlook that because it has Billy Crystal and Bette Midler are in the same movie.
I nominate them to host this year’s Oscars together, anyone else feel the same way? Seriously could you imagine the song and dance number they could do together for Hollywood’s big night?
In less than a week Billy Crystal will be once again hosting the Academy Awards on ABC. Looking at this promo picture of him for Oscar night, I want to know when he became Tom Cruise. Running is the Mission Impossible star’s thing, not the City Slicker’s. Is that AMPAS saying that Sunday’s show is a mission impossible and they need Batman to save him? And if that is what they are saying, which Batman will get the honor…Adam West? Michael Keaton? Val Kilmer? George Clooney? or Christian Bale? I am rooting for TV’s Caped Crusader to do the honors, but I think it will go to the one who is actually nominated this year?
Ever since Billy Crystal last hosted the Oscars in 2004, I have been wanting him to do it again! So yesterday when a vacancy suddenly happened due to Eddie Murphy dropping it, it became the opening he needed to host the show for the 9th time. The actor broke the mahvelous news on Twitter in a way only he can by saying, “Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show” I guess now he won’t have to tell any pharmacist his name anymore when he goes to pick up his Viagra!
I am so elated that he will once again that I made the same sound Meg Ryan made in When Harry Met Sally, you know the one!
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…it wouldn’t be Russell Brand.
I saw these pictures or Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Russell Brand together like that and I could just picture Brand wishing he was the next generation of them. But even though I will admit, I think he is funny, he is know where as brilliant as those two! So if they had a son it wouldn’t be him, in fact I can’t think of anyone of the next generation who could hold a candle to the Oscar winner and Oscar hist, can you?
