W.C. Fields

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If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up as an old lady, then kick him down the stairs. If you want to make a comedian laugh, it has to be an actual old lady.

     -- W.C. Fields, A variant on this was attributed to Fields by John Cleese in a 2014 interview with Adam Savage. Another attribution appeared in the NY Times 24 Jan 2012

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When I played Keokuk one night they were so packed in they couldn't laugh ha ha ha, they had to laugh ho, ho ho

     -- W.C. Fields

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

     -- W.C. Fields

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I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. It‘s the one thing I‘m indebted to her for.

     -- W.C. Fields

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A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

     -- W.C. Fields

W.C. Fields