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Comedy team in burlesque. all the dmeed -- comedians had been doing the same routine their whole career. now abbott and costello are nationally known and they get their own radio show on nbc. >> did you and lou originate who's on first. >> let's not go into that. >> no one knows who wrote who's on first. that's the great part of it. but they perfected it. >> and now, "the abbott and costello show." >> it was a pervasive presence, there was an absurdist element, and it was also funny in a kind of vaudevillian way. they made movies in the '40s. they were the biggest box office draw a couple year...

Coming. >> dave's not here. >> how long have you been working together now? >> we have been working together about five years. >> can you imagine 20 years from now doing a drug act. >> oh, for sure. >> the '60s and '70s became in one way the demise of teams. >> the comedy team as we knew it does not necessarily exist today. >> with bob newhart and shelly berman and lenny bruce. comedy started shifting. these guys were in the more intellectual arena. it lent itself to one person. >> i've got to stay here. there's no reason why you folks shouldn't go into the lobby. >> one of the reason, you hav...

>> jack lemon and walter matthau, there's a version of a comedy team that wasn't really a comedy team. >> once you started with temporary teams, that opened a whole new world. if you wanted to have just two stars, put them together, mix and match. >> yeah. >> you would just be excited when you hear that they were doing a movie together because you know that their chemistry was explosive. >> we seemed to know each other, like an old couple. >> sometimes you can have two very good actors and don't seem to work together very well, you find two other people and -- >> i can't pass for black. >> who...

>> when you think of famous comedy teams today, their domain is sketch comedy. >> before we begin, i'd like to once again introduce you to my anger translator luther. >> hi. >> with comedy teams like bob and i, we're a duo that does comedy, but we're not really in any way what's considered a traditional comedy duo. >> i could use a guy like you as an example. you're still fired. >> the only comedy teams that work together all the time are 20 years and we don't really talk about being wins that much. >> we don't want it to define us, what it really does. >> identical twins seems to fly in the f...

>> what fascinated me about ventriloquism was basically seeing a little wooden doll, so to speak, come to life. in a way, it's like magic. >> i saw you running down the street the other day, the strange thing, i never seen you run as fast as you ran the other day. i can talk better than you, and i'm a dummy. >> the basics of ventriloquism is the friction between the ventriloquist and the dummy. >> i certainly as a kid until recently thought of them as two people. >> it's always fascinating to see how people reinvent the dynamic of the relationship of the comedy team. >> you know, how about you...