A Commentary on the Passing Scene by
Robert Paul Wolff
rwolff@afroam.umass.edu
Saturday, April 11, 2015
ONE FOR THE AGES
Okay, here it is. If you have never seen the Abbott and Costello routine, do yourself a favor and watch it. Old time comedy does not get any better than this.
Under the former Australian Howard-led coalition government we had our own version of Abbott and Costello: Abbott is now our foot-and-mouth Prime Minister and Costello was (as he saw it) God's gift to the Australian people who was sorely prevented from ever being Prime Minister because Howard wouldn't step aside as the ship was going down.
Every Saturday morning, BBC (or it may have been ITV) show an Abbott and Costello movie; I loved them!
ReplyDeleteHere's one of my favourites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EOQVrbck34
In Oz we are conservative. Abbott and Costello are still around, but they are no longer funny:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/abbott-and-costello-back-in-comic-tandem-as-liberal-leader-pledges-support-for-israel/story-fn59niix-1225894087858
PS,
As Lazarus, I'm back among the living (I had net connection problems).
Slowly I turned, step by step ...
ReplyDeleteMy mind is a little like Fibber McGee's closet...
If you haven't seen it, you might enjoy the Kids in the Hall response to "Who's on First?".
ReplyDeleteJust out of interest,
ReplyDeleteUnder the former Australian Howard-led coalition government we had our own version of Abbott and Costello: Abbott is now our foot-and-mouth Prime Minister and Costello was (as he saw it) God's gift to the Australian people who was sorely prevented from ever being Prime Minister because Howard wouldn't step aside as the ship was going down.
Stephen