"Who's on First?" is a comedy routine made famous by Abbott and Costello. The premise of the sketch is that Abbott is identifying the players on a baseball team for Costello, but their names and nicknames can be interpreted as non-responsive answers to Costello's questions. For example, the first baseman is named "Who"; thus, the utterance "Who's on first" is ambiguous between the question ("Which person is the first baseman?") and the answer ("The name of the first baseman is ‘Who’"). This comedy sketch still is funny, and is a well remembered bit of conversation summing up the world of ignorant bliss.
Burlesque is a form of fast paced acts, it is mostly made of bling, buzz, and lots of glitz and glamour, it was an easy way to entertain the folks, with facades and very little depth. Sitting in the Oval Office in the year 2017, burlesque has seemingly found its footing once again under the guise of a half backed second banana named Trump. His schtick is similar as the “Who’s on First” routine so well crafted by Abbott and Costello. lets bomb Syria, but not really do any damage to any property the Syrians may still need to continue gassing their citizens. Lets send an “ARMADA” to North Korea, except have it first head the opposite way going to Australia. Then lets shout from the highest loftiest gold plated microphone that we got some of the most terrific submarines heading to North Korea, but actually there are none. Lets drain the swamp of Wall Street Billionaires, but lets plant a moat around the White House instead and fill it with Wall Street CEO’s.
“Who’s on First”? Steve Bannon is good, now he is bad, Jared is reading books about the Middle East he is an expert advisor. Ivanka has tea with the Chinese leadership, she is can decide if doing so permits her to get her trademarks from that nation, but she is the daughter of Trump, so nothing to see here. Rex Tillerson, ex-CEO of Exxon/Mobile, lets make him a statesman, lets call him Secretary of State, oh yeah have him collude a little more with Putin and share in the oil reserves of the Russian Petroleum fields, so somebody, except the American people can make billions of dollars. “Who’s on First”, just ask Mitch McConnell of Paul Ryan, certainly after their secret meetings with anyone Putin they have the answer. “Who’s on First”, used to be a hilarious, now its just dangerous.
