Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

It's a sobering thought that iconoclastic clowns such as W.C. Fields have fallen off the pop-culture radar (as evidenced by the fact that the studio felt compelled to insert the word comedy into the title of this collection). With his penchant for smoke and drink and dim view of such institu…






Radio report:
...two crooks who have just held up the bank for one hundred and fifty thousand...that is all.

Fields:
That is all? A hundred and fifty thousand. That's all. It ain't hay, is it?

Radio report:
...One crook - slight build, evidently a jockey, has a horse scar behind his left ear...other crook has corn teeth, cauliflower ear, apple-red cheeks, mutton-chop whiskers.

Fields:
Sounds like a full-course dinner to me! What? No apple pie?

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