Costello asks the name of the first baseman and Abbott replies "Who's on first base" to which Costello replies, "I'm asking you who's on first base" but he's actually asking "Whose will be first?" meaning who is a pronoun. Although Abbott interprets this as him saying the first baseman's name "Chi", which would be used as a noun here. Which can lead to the violation of avoiding the darkness of expression. Throughout this skit the exchanges between the two lead to many misunderstandings and frustrations due to the play on words. Neither really listens to the other, each is totally convinced that the other shares their perspective of the conversation. This is what contributes to the humor: each man has a different perspective of the