Thursday, October 25, 2012

Who's on First? (this time in Mandarin Chinese)

A couple of years ago, I wrote a post entitled "Who's on First?" - which made reference to the famous Abbot & Costello sketch. If you haven't seen it, now would be a good time to watch that video.

With all the hype around the Gangnam Style music video, there is even a Mandarin version called "Laowai Style" - I wrote a post that included the lyrics of the Chinese parodied version (and also included some vocab & grammar lesson :-).

It was put together by Jesse Appell, and it seems that he has also created a Mandarin version of the "Who's on First?" sketch in Mandarin Chinese.

Having just watched it, I can confirm that the humour still works, and in fact it doesn't even require a very high level of Mandarin to follow.

For your amusement, here is the video ...




4 comments:

  1. Terrific! Here's the youku link for those of you who are not able to 翻墙: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjg1MTQwMjY0.html

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    1. Thanks for taking the time for sharing this version!

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  2. Hey Greg! I can't wait to watch the two videos. The moment I saw the title of Laowai style, I knew that it was going to be hilarious! Glad to see that you're posting so much much recently. :)

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    1. Hey Kara, thanks for dropping by. Have you had a chance to watch them yet? I think this one was of particular interest to me, because I love the original "Who's on first?" - but I think it still works really well here. Enjoy!

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