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>> oh, hello. >> it was just a broadway show last year with john mulaney and nick kroll called "oh, hello". >> and now, back to the play. >> george, can we take five minutes? my stomach's a little -- >> no, i'm good. >> i see an absolute parallel between what they were doing in 2017 on broadway -- >> enjoy the play. >> and what weber and fields created in the early 1900s, the basic concept of the comedy team. >> hey, keep a big cc from the paper. >> weber and fields gave us a lot of what we think of as the identifiable marks of a comedy team. they invented slapstick, ethnic jokes, and pie in t...

♪ i love you baby but all i can think about is ♪ >> okay, thank you. >> you can play an instrument, or if you can sing like jack black can sing, it automatically puts you in a different -- people respect us more. because you're doing something not everyone can do. ♪ pregnant women are smug everyone knows it, nobody says it because they're pregnant ♪ >> traditionally, to be defined as a comedy team, your roots are on the stage. >> what do you think about this for my facebook status update, seeking air conditioner, free to cheap, thanks, bye, guys. >> bye, guys, is my favorite part, i lo...

They became the most hated comedy team in burlesque. 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's on first. that's the great part of it. 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 savaudevillian way. they were the biggest box office draw a couple years in a ro. >> which way do you want me to turn. >> to the left. >> to the left, that'...

Now still doing a drug act. >> oh, for sure. 20 years ago, they were doing it. >> 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 out into the lobby. >> one of the reasons, you have to split the check, it's not economically feasible. you see it in modern standup comedies, it's when it's musical...

>> jack lemmon 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 who don't seem to work together very well, you find two other people and -- >> i can't pass for black. >> wh...