W.C. Fields alcoholism and dislike of children isn't funny? I think that says more about your own sense of humor than any innate quality of his humor.
I absolutely adored his stuff when I first ran into it (admittedly around age 12), and the exchange in My Little Chickadee of, as he and another fellow sit down to play a card game, "Is this a game of chance?" "Not the way I play it, no" I to this day still find sublime.
I absolutely adored his stuff when I first ran into it (admittedly around age 12), and the exchange in My Little Chickadee of, as he and another fellow sit down to play a card game, "Is this a game of chance?" "Not the way I play it, no" I to this day still find sublime.
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