Possibly the best W. C. Fields skit ever.....The Fatal Glass of Beer

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[virgil283]

"A good skit for a snow day :..... "'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast.".... Also, "Maw, I'm going out to milk the elk."....Also, "He was mighty good with mustard..... he broke her tambourine"....[video 15m.]

....sing me that song

[virgil283]

"This is the best short, as well as being containing some of Fields's best work anywhere. There is no story to speak of: a pioneer in the Alaskan wilderness first sings a song about "The Fatal Glass of Beer" to a Mounty in a cabin before dog sledding through the wilderness to his other, slightly more civilized cabin where his wife is. Their son returns after a three-year stint in prison. But all this is a pretext for a string of brilliant one-liners (including the immortal, "'T'aint a fit night out for man nor beast"), sight gags, and stunts. A classic."

[4yearlurker]

Fields in The Bank Dick is great comedy. He tells the story of why the call him Honest John while attempting to break the racked balls on a pool table.

[fatnotlazy]

Fields was a brilliant comedian. Toward the end of his life, a visitor found Fields sitting up in bed reading the Bible. Knowing that Fields wasn’t a religious man, the visitor asked him what was he doing with that Bible. Fields replied, “Ah yes, looking for loopholes.”

[greene66]

My favorite Fields bit is from “It’s a Gift,” when he’s trying to take a nap on the porch, and gets constantly interrupted by a series of inane situations.

[bmwcyle]

It ain’t a fit night out for man nor beast.

[AlexW]

” I like children...fried.”

The only Field’s quote that I could remember off hand.

[dynachrome]

Ah, classic comedy. You gotta listen close to catch his side remarks.

Recommended:

“International House” (with Fields, Burns and Allen, Bela Lugosi!!)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024183/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1

and

“You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man” (w/ Fields, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032152/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[Gay State Conservative]

I fell in love with a beautiful blond once.She drove me to drink.That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

[hinckley buzzard]

Fields was an original. He refused to do scenes with either animals or children, figuring they would steal the scene from him.

[Lancey Howard]

(( ping ))

[mrsmith]

W.C. Fields at the archives:
http://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22W.C.+Fields%22
I never really appreciated him ‘til I passed 50!

“Fatal Glass of Beer parodies the “cornball” ...”

[Lancey Howard]

‘The Bank Dick’ is my favorite Fields movie.

[LukeL]

I love the scene with the blind man in the store, and at the picnic when he tries to open the can of tomatoes.

[PapaNew]

I thought it was, “I like children...barbequed...”

[sima_yi]

W.C. Fields was also an outstanding juggler.

[ShasheMac]

Actually, I thought it was parboiled.

[BerryDingle]

Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.

[don-o]

I keep a bottle of whiskey handy in case of snakebite

I also keep a snake handy

[imardmd1]

“A man that hates dogs and kids can’t be all wrong.” — WCF

[LibWhacker]

“I reckon, guess and calculate he is, Ma.”