Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 16, 2024

Yes, Goat! “My Generation”… great song.

They Might Be Giants.

The Guess Who

Guess?

I thought I was the only who knew Them (Lead singer, Van Morisson.

No, Who’s on First.

I always thought that Abbot and Costello could have had a great routine with those two bands.

Who would have guessed it??

Q: Who recorded “I Can See For Miles”?

A: Yes.

Q: Who recorded “I’ve Seen All Good People”?

A: Yes.

I think we’re done here.

I really want to know, Who are you

That was Gaye.

Glooorrreee-ah

Tommy can you hear me?

I also liked “American Woman” Also “Volunteers” by Jefferson Airplane.

Thought Who was on first.

Aaugghh! Earworm!!I think Iron Maiden covered this, too, but could be wrong.

I liked the song too, Pig!

The Guess Who?

The Guess Who…

There are a couple of squirrels at Woodstock that had a similar conversation. (The Band is performing later.)

Rolling Stones still rock! You can’t always get what you want, but you get what you need.

I did this exact thing to my kids back when they were younger. A little bit differently though …

No Sugar / New Mother Nature Rising

Not related to the Hu.

June 5th 1976, Glasgow, Scotland. As part of “The Who Put The Boot In” tour, The Who performed with support acts Widowmaker, Outlaws, Streetwalkers, Little Feat and some local boys, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. I was there!!! ;-)

I had the 45 record. If you play it right until the end and turn the volume way up, you’ll hear (as it fades out), “goodbye American Woman…goodbye American sh! t”. I kid you not.

American woman stay away from me

Perfect! First Base!

enough of these puns, I’m gonna call The Police

Sometimes things goin’ on are hard to understand, let alone to pronounce.

Does Pig like “Them” as well as “The Guess Who” or does he like “The Who” as well as “The Guess Who”?

Then Randy Bachman formed Bachman Turner Overdrive. “Not Fragile” was their response to Yes’s “Fragile” album. ‘60s and ‘70s had great bands and albums.

Randy Bachman Lives!

Every once in a while, the rock station would play a comedy routine that I haven’t found online. It was a guy going to a concert. The billing was Guess Who, Who, and Yes!. Still looking for it. Anyone have a link? Thanks!

Rip off. Harry Shearer and David L Lander did an entire bit about this with these bands when they were with the Credibility Gap. Used to be played on Dr Demento all the time.

We had that joke in H.S. when they were to be in concert in our city

Hey abbotttttttttttt

Go to YouTube and search ‘Slappy Squirrel at Woodstock.’

While “American Woman” was a hit, I was in Vietnam. They didn’t play it on the Armed Forces radio.

Stephan did a very similar strip a couple of years ago. But it was a Sunday, and more involved.

He’s on first.

This ancient gag might have been funny 40 years ago.

I would do something similar with my kids when playing Name the Artist. When a song by either of these groups came on I would ask them “Who” or “Guess Who” this is. I can’t say they appreciated it, but they both are good at naming classic rock bands now.

I like BTO better……

LOL! I had to read that a couple of times.

Let’s hear it for Jeremiah, a good friend of mine. He is sitting next to Quinn, the eskimo.

Great song!

Okay, this is the first pun joke column Stephan’s done in years that made me smile. I’m not saying he has redeemed the genre, but: well done!

I agree with the Goat.

They probably should’ve thought twice before naming themselves that.

Guess Who!

I had that album when I was 10 or 11. I LOVED it.

Who’s on first?

Yes.

What would happen if we threw a little The The in the mix?

World Health Organization.

In today’s kartune Steph gets in touch with his inner Costello & Abbott (I always liked Lou better)!!

Pig + (Rat +/- Goat) <<<< PigWhich means a strip featuring only kind soul Pig is of WAY more valuable than a strip featuring Rat with or without Goat along with pig.Please Santa, bring me a feel good strip with just Pig for the Holidays,

“Ok, Guess Who is on first, and Who is on second”

“Can I have the name of the third act”

“Yes”

Back in the early days of online search, you could not research the band name “The Who” because both of those words were stopwords—words so common that the search software would automatically discard them. There were workarounds, of course.

I thought Who was on first?

Groan…

It seems that the actual name of the band is being missed as an opportunity to extend the joke.

ah yes, Van Morrison and Them – G – L – O – R – I – A ….

Who’s on First.

Do you have to pay royalties for that joke

Best track is No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature (imho)

I have No Time for this nonsense.

A local radio station claimed they would play only American bands on July Fourth. They played American Woman. I called in and let them know that The Guess Who are Canadian, and American Woman is an anti-American song. They said I was nuts.

David L. Lander and Harry Shearer did a bit similar to this years ago. Look up, “The Credibility Gap: Who’s on First” on YouTube.

I sensed that they were doing an Abbott and Costello routine around The Who, but I was not aware that Guess Who wrote “American Woman” (in fact I’d never heard of them at all till I looked up who wrote the song) so the setup went right over my head.

That’s an Old Joke with 3 Bands. Guess Who. The Who and Yes all headlining a concert. It’s a parody of Who’s on 1st.

Gloria by Van Morrison and Them? Now you’re talking.

Abbott & Costello

Pig: “Yes” Goat: “I like them.” Pig: “Who?” Goat: “No, Yes.” Rat: “Third base!”

Horton hears the Who.

Third base!

Does Pig also like Love?

Third base!

Don’t ask “Who?” Just Guess Who.

No Sugar Tonight in rat’s coffee.

I know. I know what’s going on. It’s a song by Marvin Gaye. It’s another song from my generation, which is a song by who. Or did you already guess who sang it?

’He’s on first…"

They’re all owly over the election results.

I tried to write a comment using Guess Who’s lead singers name. They banned it. They really need to fix this system.

Non-Blondes

Who’s on first? What’s on second.

Stephan, do Bob and Ray know about this , umm, borrowing?

The challenge, how long can Stephan keep this going?

hmm… this could take awhile!

Do you feel disappointed when a favorite song from the past becomes the theme for a commercial?

Rat … One of these days Pig, WHAM!

Pig … I like them too.

Abbott and Costello would be so ashamed!

When I first heard the name of that group back in the 60s, they would announce on the radio, “Guess Who is coming to town” and I would ask back, “Ok, who?”

Talent for the NCO Club at U-Tapao RTNB in Thailand came from either USO or local off-base bands. They always butchered this classic from Guess Who.

He stole this bit from late 60’s Harry Shearer and Co.‘s “Credibility Gap” group who had stolen it from Abbot and Costello’s “Who’s on First” baseball routine. See Wikipedia’s article on the history of these and related bits. >

Commercial factory music. Whenever I heard the name I thought “Why?”

That took me a minute! ❤️

Stephan is a master of the pun ♥♥

What’s Going On is a Gaye song…

Youth of America by The Wipers

The who were the first hard rock band, and the forefathers of punk rock too.

We’ve been through this before…specifically, 10/19/2014 (I can’t include a link, but just enter the date into the date box below the strip)

Pig shows good taste.

This is why they are officially “The Who”.

You know, the band!

Fun fact, both covered Shakin’ All Over.