Who’s on First? T-shirt
Who’s on First? T-shirt Who’s on First T-Shirt  the Who’s on First  routine from  The Naughty Nineties. Who’s on First? What’s on Second? I don’t know — he’s on Third, we’re not talking about him! The…
Who’s on First?
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
Abbott and Costello musical comedy, The Naughty Nineties – in addition to the normal fun, the definitive version of Who’s on First?
One Night in the Tropics
One Night in the Tropics (1940), the first Abbott and Costello movie, released November 15, 1940
By all rights, One Night in the Tropics shouldn’t be an Abbott and Costello movie at all. It was a typical 1940’s romantic musical comedy, starring Allan Jones (perhaps most famous for Showboat as well as his work with the Marx Brothers in A Day at the Races and A Night at the Opera), Bob Cummings and Nancy Kelly. However, Universal Pictures had just put a pair of radio comedians under contract and wanted to give the pair, known as Abbott and Costello, a small part in the movie as comic relief, to see how they would do.
Who’s on First? Abbott and Costello script
Who’s on First? Abbott and Costello’s signature routine
The most famous of all of Abbott and Costello’s routines, Who’s on First? had been performed countless times in vaudeville and on radio, as well as a shortened version of it in their first movie, One Night in the Tropics (1940), with the longer, definitive version (shown here) filmed in The Naughty Nineties (1945). It even has a dedicated exhibit/plaque and is regularly showcased at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York