e.phemera: Who’s On First

October 27, 2009

e.phemera: Who’s On First

The Wikipedia description of this sketch makes it sound as dry as the one peformed by Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers in The Simpsons.

There are a number of different versions of this bouncing around the toobs, and this one has an annoying bit of business at the beginning, but it’s the best quality one I can find, and it’s a fabulous performance of an excellent sketch. They even turned it into a board game.

(via Abbott & Costello)

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