The boy's did a routine, I believe only on the tv series about a girl that Bud mathmaticly kept increasing her age till eventialy she would be older than Lou and said she'll have to wait for me
then Bud said why should she wait for you Lou said I was nice enough to wait for her.
If anyone know's where I can find a transcript
of that routine I would appreciate it.
Thanks:)

That is the famous " You're Forty She's Ten Rountine" Check out the Abbott and Costello Home Page. Be patient: Do a search for A&C and then manever to the home page.

I love that bit.

Another great one is when they argue about how many times 7 goes into 28. I forgot what movie they featured that in...

was first preserved in their 1941 Universal movie, "IN THE NAVY". I'm sure Bud & Lou had performed it on stage and radio before then- and Costello made SURE he "owned" that routine when they did it on their filmed TV show in 1952-'53.

In the McDougal-Littel 8th grade Literature book, used in many schools throughout the country is an excerpt from the Who's on First? routine. Some of the kids don't get it at first, but once they do, they love it!

Recently, I've seen other versions of the routine adapted to politics or current culture circulated around the internet. One of them is President Bush and Condoleeza Rice talking about Hu, the premier of China. "Who? That's what I said, the guy in China. Hu's in China. Who?"...well, it goes on and on. It's hilarious.

Another one I've seen is where Lou is trying to talk to a guy at the computer store (Abbott). "What do I need to keep track of expenses?" "Office" is the reply. "I already have an office" is the reply. "You mean to tell me I need another office in my office.!?" (I'm paraphrasing, of course, but you get the idea.) These 'takes' on Who's on First are very clever. Anyone else on the board seen them, or another one I haven't heard yet?

.....Abbott & Costello's writers knew exactly what kind of routines they did best- where there's a double meaning, and Bud throws Lou every time he says, oh, "The guy's head Hertz!"/"Well, why don't he take an aspirin!?!?!" or
"The shovel is my pick."/"HOW can a shovel be your pick??" or "He wouldn't say 'miles to you', he'd say, 'NAUTS to you'!"/"And I'd say 'nauts' right back to him!!!".

:)

Yeah, they're so cleverly written--and performed. The fast pace and timing make these routines impeccable.

Another gem is A & C's "Mudder" routine (retold in Chris Costello's biography of
her father "LOU'S ON FIRST") ...

BUD: Didn't I see you at the race track yesterday?
LOU: Yeah, I was there. I like to bet on the nags.
BUD (grabs him): Don't talk like that about horses! Do you realize that I have one of the greatest mudders in the country?
LOU: What has your mother got to do with horses?
BUD: My mudder is a horse.
LOU: What? I will admit there's a resemblance.
BUD: Now stop that!
LOU: Is your mudder really a horse?
BUD: Of course. My mudder won the first race at Hialeah yesterday.
LOU: You oughta be ashamed of yourself, putting your mudder in a horse race.
BUD: What are you talking about? My mudder used to pull a milk wagon.
LOU: What some people won't do for a living!
BUD: I take very good care of my mudder. If she don't feel like running, I
scratch my mudder.
LOU: Now ain't that cozy! I suppose if you get an itch, your mudder scratches you.
BUD: You don't follow me.
LOU: Not when you're related to a bunch of horses, I don't. I won't even
speak to you.
BUD: Will you make sense? I said I've got a fine horse and he's a mudder.
LOU (does a take): He's a mudder! How can he be a mudder?
BUD: Because he makes a better mudder than a she. Now I can't waste my
time with you. I've got to go to the track and feed my mudder.
LOU: And what do you give the old lady for breakfast--oats?
BUD: Don't be old-fashioned. Modern mudders don't eat oats. They eat their
fodder.
LOU: What did you say?
BUD: I said I feed my mudder his fodder.
LOU: What have you got--a bunch of cannibals?

I haven't heard that one before. It's good. I could just picture A & C performing it.

...."Mudder and Fodder" on their radio show in the early '40s. Then, they recreated it in their film "The Noose Hangs High" (1948), and then on "THE COLGATE COMEDY HOUR" and their own filmed TV show. It was one of their
"evergreens".

That bit was in their first starring film for Universal "Buck Privates" and it is also in Comin' Round the Mountain.

On the subject of the latter, that one always gets slammed but IMO, it moves along just fine and the music isn't that bad. My vote for their worst is Lost in Alaska.

I found some audio cassette tapes of the A & C show at "Ollies" and they are great but they lose alot without the video and they also have The Bob Hope Show on Audio tapes as well.

When I was a member of Netflix and I would video tape/dub all of the A & C DVDs they sent me in the mail, I'm a baaaaaaad boy !!!!

I heard somewhere once that every time they did their WHO'S ON FIRST? routine, they'd change it slightly.

I saw one who's on First routine in the A & C show (a quote by Costello ==> "Abbots in the retired actors home but he isn't retired , he's tired") and another on in a movie and they were altered just a smidgen.

I was inspired to the following when the movie Saw 6 came out:

C: See any movies this weekend?
A: Saw 6
C: WOw, you must have spent the whole weekend at the theater! But what were the names of the films?
A; Saw 6!
C: I'm not asking you how many films you saw!