Showing posts with label Abbot Costello. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abbot Costello. Show all posts

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 ...