Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) "Anything You Can Do" is a song composed by Irving Berlin for the 1946 Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun". The song is a duet, with one male singer and one female singer attempting to outdo each other in increasingly complex tasks. In the musical, the song sets the scene for the climactic sharpshooting contest between Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Its most memorable lines are, "Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you." The song was first performed in "Annie Get Your Gun" by
Anything You Can Do (game show) other in increasingly complex tasks. In September 1972, Wood became host of "Beat the Clock" while Canadian actor Don Harron (best known to American viewers as Charlie Farquharson on "Hee Haw") took over on "Anything You Can Do". In Canada, the series aired as a daily daytime show as well as a weekly nighttime show; Some U.S. stations aired it daily while others only showed it once a week. David Hammett, "A Conversation With Gene Wood," May 27, 1996. Anything You Can Do (game show) Anything You Can Do is a Canadian stunt-based game show that aired on that country's