When he was 12 years old, Ron Fields almost cracked up watching It’s a Gift on TV. He was laughing so hard he had to leave the room. “Wow,” he said when he had recovered. “W.C. Fields has to be the ...

W.C. Fields was a sloshed-out comic genius who couldn't help but take his work home with him—and suffered the grim consequences because of it. Donald Trump responds to object thrown out of White House ...

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.

GODFREY DANIEL! MOTHer of pearl! Simon Louvish wants to set the record straight on the life of W. C. Fields. In Man on the Flying Trapeze (564 pages. Norton. $29.95), Fields's latest biographer starts ...