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The scene of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello doing their classic "Who's on First" routine is run continuously at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. It is regarded as the best version of this routine in existence.
The laughter that can be heard faintly in the background during the "Who's on First" routine belongs to the film crew and director Jean Yarbrough. After numerous re-takes trying to eliminate it, Yarbrough just couldn't get the crew - or himself - to stop laughing during the routine, no matter how many times they heard it. So he just gave up and left the giggling in.
One of the few films ever made about a show boat that depicts it correctly. A show boat was not a self-contained steamer but a barge, moved by another boat that was called a "tow boat" that was mounted behind the show boat, pushing it up and down the river. Of the three films of the musical "Show Boat," the first one -released by Universal in 1929 -got it right, but the 1936 and 1951 versions got it wrong.
Lou Costello recycles the "Lifesavers Candy" routine Groucho Marx used in The Marx Brothers' hit Horse Feathers (1932).
The "Who's on First" sequence was added after the rest of the film was shot and edited. Universal executives thought the film didn't have enough laughs, so they wrote in "Who's on First," which Bud Abbott and Lou Costello had been performing for years on stage and radio, as well as a much shorter version in their first film, One Night in the Tropics (1940).
"Dexter Broadhurst: Strange as it may seem, they give ball players nowadays very peculiar names. Sebastian Dinwiddle: Funny names? Dexter Broadhurst: Nicknames. Nicknames. Sebastian Dinwiddle: Not - not as funny as my name - Sebastian Dinwiddie. Dexter Broadhurst: Oh, yes, yes, yes! Sebastian Dinwiddle: Funnier than that? Dexter Broadhurst: Oh, absolutely. Yes. Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third... Sebastian Dinwiddle: That's what I want to find out. I want you to tell me the names of the fellows on the St. Louis team. Dexter Broadhurst: I'm telling you. Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third... Sebastian Dinwiddle: You know the fellows' names? Dexter Broadhurst: Yes. Sebastian Dinwiddle: Well, then, who's playin' first? Dexter Broadhurst: Yes. Sebastian Dinwiddle: I mean the fellow's name on first base. Dexter Broadhurst: Who. Sebastian Dinwiddle: The fellow playin' first base for St. Louis. Dexter Broadhurst: Who. Sebastian Dinwiddle: The guy on first base. Dexter Broadhurst: Who is on first. Sebastian Dinwiddle: Well, what are you askin' me for? Dexter Broadhurst: I'm not asking you - I'm telling you. Who is on first. Sebastian Dinwiddle: I'm asking *you* who's on first! Dexter Broadhurst: That's the man's name! Sebastian Dinwiddle: That's whose name? Dexter Broadhurst: Yes."
"Sebastian Dinwiddle: Well, go ahead and tell me! Dexter Broadhurst: Who. Sebastian Dinwiddle: The guy on first. Dexter Broadhurst: Who. Sebastian Dinwiddle: The first baseman. Dexter Broadhurst: Who is on first. Sebastian Dinwiddle: Have you got a first baseman on first? Dexter Broadhurst: Certainly. Sebastian Dinwiddle: Then who's playing first? Dexter Broadhurst: Absolutely. Sebastian Dinwiddle: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money? Dexter Broadhurst: Every dollar of it. And why not? The man's entitled to it. Sebastian Dinwiddle: Who is? Dexter Broadhurst: Yes. Sebastian Dinwiddle: So who gets it? Dexter Broadhurst: Why shouldn't he? Sometimes his wife comes down and collects it. Sebastian Dinwiddle: Whose wife? Dexter Broadhurst: Yes. After all, the man earns it. Sebastian Dinwiddle: Who does? Dexter Broadhurst: Absolutely. Sebastian Dinwiddle: Well, all I'm trying to find out is what's the guy's name on first base. Dexter Broadhurst: Oh, no, no, What is on second base. Sebastian Dinwiddle: I'm not asking you who's on second. Dexter Broadhurst: Who's on first. Sebastian Dinwiddle: That's what I'm trying to find out."
