On his deathbed, W.C. Fields, 66, for decades a relentless consumer of alcohol, confided to old friends: "I've often wondered how far I could have gone had I laid off the booze." The brilliant ...

Jan. 29 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of a commemorative stamp honoring W.C. Fields. He would have been 100 years old on that day. In the early days of talking film, he was one of the ...

The 1930s film comedian/curmudgeon W.C. Fields was always at his best when he had an irritant to bounce his biting one-liners against, like a precocious child, a cute dog or the voluptuous Mae West.

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THE oldest item in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new exhibition, “The Peregrinations & Pettifoggery of W.C. Fields,” is a small theatrical datebook from 1898 filled with browning ...

Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians? In our recurring series Underrated, we chat with writers ...