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Question:According to Wikipedia it was first performed in the early 1930's, but not by Abbott and Costello. It came from other comedians sketches and eventually becaome "Who's on FIrst" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_on_Fi... They started working on it in 1938, performed it in their film debut "One NIght in the Tropics" and had it copyrighted in 1944.

The script - http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.s... - even though it's never really performed the same way twice.

Marianne


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: According to Wikipedia it was first performed in the early 1930's, but not by Abbott and Costello. It came from other comedians sketches and eventually becaome "Who's on FIrst" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_on_Fi... They started working on it in 1938, performed it in their film debut "One NIght in the Tropics" and had it copyrighted in 1944.

The script - http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.s... - even though it's never really performed the same way twice.

Marianne

1930

I have got no idea