Great bit. Had an eerily similar experience at a diner driving through Carrizozzo, NM... hostile waitress, crossed everything off the menu, then warmed right up to a biker that strolled in... charming as a sidewinder, but the memory definitely stayed with me... 1981
Jody Gilbert, terrific character actress - sadly she was blacklisted in the 50's but still amassed over 115 film & Tv credits. She is memorable in BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID as the argumentative lady during train robbery. She died in a car crash at the age of 62.
This was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. W.C. Fields was comedic genius. This sketch is as relevant today as it was back then. He really knew how to read people and make fun of the situation. My favorite line "I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here". Comedy gold!
You can watch her doing a wrestling match and love scene with Shemp Howard in "Hellzapoppin"...it's perfect watching Shemp try to negotiate his way around her ample figure...
Excellent point, I wish more people understood that, they only seem to get nostalgic for the past and act like every little thing we go through now has not been also experienced by countless other generations before.
This entire sketch, is shade… served to perfection. Kudos to both of them. Jodie broke all the rules of how women moved and talked in those days in this scene. No affectation, no pretentious Hollywood accents. Just Jodie serving it cold, funny, and modern. “You’re as funny as a cry for help…” Classic movie scene. Classic comedy gold. I could watch Jodie play this character for an entire movie.
Even when I was a little boy in the sixties living in California, if I looked in the TV Guide and it showed a WC Fields movie playing even on The Late Late Show at 2:30 a.m, I would stay up to enjoy it. W.C. is the best ever!
He was a very sincere person at home. He had a pond in his front yard, and one day the little son of the next door neighbor ( I believe to be Anthony Quinn and the daughter one of the studio heads) drowned in the pond trying to get to the miniature sailboat that Fields kept. he never got over it and had the pond drained and filled in.
Jody Gilbert worked right up to 1976 & appeared in "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid," with Newman & Redford. She also appeared in the successful horror film "Willard," & her last film was the Sam Elliott "Lifeguard" picture. In 1939 she was also in "Ninotchka" a Greta Garbo film. On TV she appeared in "Love American Style," "Sanford & Son," & countless commercials. She was only 62 when she died from injuries in a car crash in 1979. In this episode in 1941 -- with W.C. Fields, she's only 25 & has a sexy voice for a big woman. She also managed to slip by a double entendre past the censors at 2:53: "There's something awfully big about you..." she says to Fields. He's flattered and thanks her as he butters his toast. And she adds quickly -- "Your nose." She turns her back and starts to wipe down the counter with her butt quite prominent. Fields adds -- "there's something awfully big about you too." What an ideal team they made. They should've done more films together.
Thank you for this! She's the only reason I stayed and watched tbh. I didn't find anything comical about the man, I love classic film and comedies but this guy was not it.
When I was growing up in the 50s and early 60s I would watch all the comedy greats. Fields, Laurel & Hardy, Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny..... My mother didn't like Fields which assured me he was a comic genius.
W.C. Fields is always classic, but Jody Gilbert more than holds her own with him in this sketch. Wish I could have lived in the 30s and 40s (except for that whole Depression and World War II thing).
WC was the greatest comedian of ALL TIME. His humor was very sophisticated, though seemingly simple. One of my favorites (being a golfer) is 'The Dentist.' 'The Bank Dick' is also great - especially the family scenes.
"I don't know why I come in here....the flies get the best of everything". Oh God, he was so funny. One of the really great performers of the 20th century.
Two things to know: For one thing, boater hats like WC has here were used until fall, then the owner would put his fist through it to punch out the top, and then throw it out. This means that in the movie WC took the hat out of trash like a bum would have. The other thing is that the cellophane used back then was as flammable as gunpowder. That's why it went up like a torch when he tried to light his cigar at the end.
Yes...that's right....very underrated..yawn....just like all the other big stars...Chaplain, Lloyd, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy all underrated. All these mega stars were underrated.
Monty Python is pure British comic genius. see: The Lumberjack song, Ministry of Silly Walks, The Dead Polly Sketch, How To Be Not Seen, Gangs of Biker Grannies, and of course the epic cinema piece... Monty Python And The Holy Grael. 5:43
Oh no, not another Boomer whiner, how original... 😱 As if ALL the comedy in the whole wide world had suddenly stopped after the '40s ! Really ? You must be such fun at parties, always reminiscing of the "good 'ole days", whinin' and bitchin' about how the kids dont know anything and can only create crap and all, right ? Take note: since the '40s, at least EIGHT generations of writers and comedians and creators of all types were born by the thousands. And just like previous generations, have attracted millions of spectators and fans, what do you have to say about that ? That they're are bad ? Useless ? Worthless ? Who do you think you are ? Open up your mind, you really need to. Really ! 🙄
WC FIELDS was a Philadelphia boy..he obviously was eating in a South Jersey diner..because the best Waitresses like this are from New Jersey
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My Grandad and his generation grew up with this stuff. I was too young to appreciate it before he died, but utterly love it now, and fight back bitter tears I cannot share the laughter with my Grandaddy. Man, this stuff is gold.!
His responses to his nagging wives, the muttering "Yes dear, ah, no dear." is my Dad responding to my mom's nagging. He was a Fields nut. She knew what he was doing and that made her even madder.
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I can recall as a child, decades after W.C. Fields passing, how he was still a well known and loved cultural icon held in high regard for his classic and timeless talents while in more recent generations he's probably all but unknown.
Blame the degenerate US education system. More focused on pronouns than literature, theatre, film, music, history, not to mention Mathematics and Science. Disband the teacher’s unions… I’m a not proud member.
Yup, and the service reminds me of a commercial, don't even remember the product, where the announcer says, "Did you ever wonder what happened to customer service?" and you see a surly looking waitress bring a plate with a sandwich on it, and, just like W.C.'s waitress with the menu, she kinda throws the plate onto the table, and turns to walk away. The customer says, almost timidly, "Excuse me miss, this sandwich has mayo, and I requested no mayo." She glares at him, comes back, takes the two pieces of bread off the sandwich, wipes the mayo off from both on the side of the table, grabs the meat and places it back between the two pieces of bread She glares at him every harder, turns, and walks off, lol. Seems like W.C's waitress mighta been her grandmomma.
He was not only a great comedic star, but he was considered the best juggler of his time. He was simply amazing; youtube has some videos of his juggling; you won’t believe your eyes.
I remember growing up during pre cable Saturday mornings were cartoons, American Bandstand & Soul Train and Sunday mornings were W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Ma and Pa Kettle, etc films.
Same for me. I remember when silent movies were often shown on TV. Not anymore, damn it. The biggest crisis in Hollywood is that there are no pie fights anymore. No singing cowboys either.
Lawrence Lewis my late father belonged to a "B-Movie Cowboy Club" here in Knoxville, that would get together every so often, and watch old serial westerns, especially the old singing cowboys...they had a show that came on every Sunday...it might still be on
KTVU channel 2 Lloyd Thaxton ? That was a funny guy. How about Wrestling and the Chevrolet car dealer that would sit on top of a ladder talking during his commercials. Jim Westfall the Chevy car dealer ? The Sheik came in and opened the hood of a car one night and started tearing wires and stuff out from under the hood.
@@johngoodwin4811 it's a joke that's mildly funny on a few different levels His high blood pressure was likely caused by worry over money (or the stress of working and saving). When he lost his money he says he "had to give up" his high blood pressure - as though it was a hobby that he he could no longer afford. It reverses cause and the effect. The joke is also that a person may need to give up a boat or a horse or a fancy car because their financial situation changed. Here he is sort of complaining that he had to give up something that's unwanted. Instead of calling the loss of high blood pressure a silver lining he laments that he can't have the luxury of worry now that he's poorer.
one of my favourite pool hall tricks; the upright cigarette on the edge of the table! 🤣🤣🤣 now that smoking indoors is verboten, i haven't had a chance to play that trick in ~20 years.. i'm off to see if wind doesn't knock my butt off of my patio table..
My grandDad & those of his generation would talk of how comical W.C.Fields was. He would tell me of certain scenes & skits, but I was too young to appreciate it when I was a small kid. Now, I'm a big kid, (52 years old), and get a real kick out of Fields, and wish I still had my GrandDad, with whom I could lay back and laugh & bellow at W.C..!!
...I didn't say the steak was tough...I merely said I didn't see the old horse that used to be tethered outside...." one orf my favoerie Field's lines...
@@briancarno8837 Double digit INFLATION in just 4 months. Thank Joe Biden and all the Democrats! Oh, and BTW, inflation is still a TAX. Democrats LOVE taxes!
An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake, finds his way to a barstool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels..After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, > > "Hey, you wanna hear a blond joke?" The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to the old blind cowboy says, "Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five important things: 1 The bartender is a blond girl who's holding a baseball bat. 2. The bouncer is a blond girl with a billy-club. 3. I'm a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blond woman with a black belt in karate. 4. The woman sitting next to me is blond and a professional weightlifter. 5. The lady to your right is blond and a professional wrestler. Now, think about it seriously, Cowboy. Do you still wanna tell that blond joke? The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, "Well hell no, not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times."
daniel lack Agree with you completely. Check her out in a minor Kirk Douglas comedy (!) "My Dear Secretary" - some classic moments with her when applying for a job. Glad to see another appreciator of this wonderful comedienne.
@@AllAmericanJock a lot of unbilled parts and none so full of dialogue as this one. We should start a group of admirers! So many great character actors!
Every tiny detail of Gilbert's movements and gestures is superb. Look what she says with her hands, and with the way she breathes, and moves her shoulders, at 1:37 through 1:45.
Orson Welles and W. C. Fields were great friends, and Welles said that eating dinner in a restaurant, or going to a bar with the comedy great was an incredibly entertaining experience. Welles said that he often laughed so hard at Fields and his zany antics that he thought he was going to pass out!
@Milos Bulajic What a horrendous and stupid misuse of a comparison intended for serious purpose. AND you based it all on an assumption!! Jackass MUCH - JACKASS?!
@Milos Bulajic You're so full of gas, platitudes and cheap outs I'm surprised you just don't float away. Must be your enormous ass... er I mean mass LoL
He Was A Character, and Brilliant ! Always Loved the way he mumbled smart ass comments under his breathe. I like how he said " excuse me blimpie pie " as he leaves the diner. Loved the " aren't you a little confused ? " Uhhh, in which way ? " She was a good match for him, they bounced off each other quite well ! Thanks a thousand times !
Lol she crossed off all the meat choices from the menu and left him with the choice of eggs and bread. But the customer by the wall is eating some type of meat dish. 😂
Went to the Pub again last night. There was this very BIG woman dancing on a table. I said, “Good legs.” The girl giggled and said, “Do you really think so?” I said, “Definitely! Most tables would have collapsed by now.” I’m not welcome there anymore. But who cares?
I love the way they make his nose big in makeup, it's amazing and with a little red in it too. This is a great skit from the olden days that we should all appreciate
WC Fields is one of my all-time comedy favorites. He finished his movie career in grand style with the incredible one-two punch of The Bank Dick (1940) and Never Give A Sucker An Even Break (1941) both for Universal, both incredibly surreal (especially Sucker) and both featuring incredible car chases! Thanks for the explanatory note about Gosha, I will offer a blessing in his honor the next time I eat a goolab jamaan!
Groucho Marx was once a guest at Fields` house ,after a tour of the main house WC showed Groucho a huge outhouse which was stacked floor to ceiling with bottles of alcohol.Groucho says `don`t you know prohibition is over`. `Yes `says WC `but it might come back`.
This was filmed in the old Pioneer Dairy Cafe 332 Spring Street Los Angeles California. Dame Mae Fishman had a bit part in this movie.Dame Mae Fishman, a celebrated silent screen actress, rises to fame alongside her friends Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, only to find herself facing immense obstacles in her personal life and career.
4 million views on 80 year old comedy sketch. Not bad. Timeless!!
And 2 years later 5.5 million!
And I,v watched 2 million of them ..😂 Great Comedy..
Almost 6 million now... We all needed that laugh, thanks! 😄
Hell yeah!
In all truth the opening scene of the Bank Dick is beyond funny.
W.C. Fields, one of the most original performers that American entertainment ever produced. 😁
Great bit. Had an eerily similar experience at a diner driving through Carrizozzo, NM... hostile waitress, crossed everything off the menu, then warmed right up to a biker that strolled in... charming as a sidewinder, but the memory definitely stayed with me... 1981
She thought you were a big kabloona, I suppose.
Chapter 2?
Had one similar in Occidental California…Union Hotel. She literally tossed the salad plates to every one of us…”Tossed Salad!”
Wish there were 10 more chapters. These 2 are hilarious going at each other.😂
The great W.C. Fields was my dad's favourite comedian. He used to make him chuckle every time. So I thank him for that alone..
I love how she crosses everything off the menu, as he mentions them! Classic!
All but the eggs!
Glad you appreciate real talent. You know, there's something really big about you.
When she corrects him for ordering Wheat Toast, I thought we were going into 'Five Easy Pieces' territory.
@@STEPHENCONRAD-l5y Yes & W C Field’s drawl reminds me of Jack Nicholson too! 😂
Vlassic !!!
Also, that waitress plays the role opposite of WC perfectly. She's a gem!
She's gorgeous ❤
I agree! Her voice is perfect!
@@captainchaos4108 it’s Jody Gilbert.
Blimpie pie...
Jody Gilbert, terrific character actress - sadly she was blacklisted in the 50's but still amassed over 115 film & Tv credits. She is memorable in BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID as the argumentative lady during train robbery. She died in a car crash at the age of 62.
This was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. W.C. Fields was comedic genius. This sketch is as relevant today as it was back then. He really knew how to read people and make fun of the situation.
My favorite line "I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here". Comedy gold!
"You're as funny as a cry for help."
One of the funnest lines of all time.
Bank dick:offer a hardy handclasp" 👋
No it had to be "water never drink the stuff, fish f*ck in it".
Yes, and she's as sweet as a puddle of battery acid.
It wasn't really that funny.
Quite accurate, I thought.
His command and timing - with physical comedy business was superb. And when he had a scene partner like this it's a masterpiece...LOL
“I don’t know why I come in here. The flies get the best of everything.”
Brilliant!
W.C was the real world deal in the Day....
" Ah Ha..., I forgot to take the cellophane off ".
My dad loved w.c.and I consider my dad great, so I am going to see what he saw and I probably will 😅
Jody Gilbert as the waitress is brilliant, nearly making Fields the foil to HER in this scene.
You can watch her doing a wrestling match and love scene with Shemp Howard in "Hellzapoppin"...it's perfect watching Shemp try to negotiate his way around her ample figure...
It's a great star who allows others to shine, who knows they help him shine all the greater.
Not gonna lie, she's sassy and tough - just how I like 'em.
Nearly?
I remember seeing this as a young kid and thinking they found a match for W.C.
Its cool to be able to look back almost one hundred years, and see that life was just exasperating THEN, as it is now...
Exactly
Excellent point, I wish more people understood that, they only seem to get nostalgic for the past and act like every little thing we go through now has not been also experienced by countless other generations before.
No one better at comedy than W.C. Fields. Never get tired of watching his films.
This entire sketch, is shade… served to perfection. Kudos to both of them.
Jodie broke all the rules of how women moved and talked in those days in this scene. No affectation, no pretentious Hollywood accents. Just Jodie serving it cold, funny, and modern.
“You’re as funny as a cry for help…”
Classic movie scene. Classic comedy gold.
I could watch Jodie play this character for an entire movie.
Yes...your right❗shade,
What you said...innn spaaades.
Jodie was hot potatoes lol
Even when I was a little boy in the sixties living in California, if I looked in the TV Guide and it showed a WC Fields movie playing even on The Late Late Show at 2:30 a.m, I would stay up to enjoy it. W.C. is the best ever!
"David Copperfield"
Precocious whippersnapper eh
Me too!!
In my world TV went 'off the air' at midnight.
@@davideaken5239all 3 channels
I always watched these skits on DVD with my grandfather and now I watch them in happiness remembering him.
He was a very sincere person at home. He had a pond in his front yard, and one day the little son of the next door neighbor ( I believe to be Anthony Quinn and the daughter one of the studio heads) drowned in the pond trying to get to the miniature sailboat that Fields kept. he never got over it and had the pond drained and filled in.
Jody Gilbert worked right up to 1976 & appeared in "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid," with Newman & Redford. She also appeared in the successful horror film "Willard," & her last film was the Sam Elliott "Lifeguard" picture. In 1939 she was also in "Ninotchka" a Greta Garbo film.
On TV she appeared in "Love American Style," "Sanford & Son," & countless commercials. She was only 62 when she died from injuries in a car crash in 1979.
In this episode in 1941 -- with W.C. Fields, she's only 25 & has a sexy voice for a big woman. She also managed to slip by a double entendre past the censors at 2:53: "There's something awfully big about you..." she says to Fields. He's flattered and thanks her as he butters his toast. And she adds quickly -- "Your nose."
She turns her back and starts to wipe down the counter with her butt quite prominent. Fields adds -- "there's something awfully big about you too."
What an ideal team they made. They should've done more films together.
Thank you for this! She's the only reason I stayed and watched tbh. I didn't find anything comical about the man, I love classic film and comedies but this guy was not it.
@@Prettyoddbananaa - Dry humor -- yeah, it's not for everyone.
Excellent reply. Adds to the enjoyment of the Master at woork
He helped her slip it by with the way he responded
She must have been one of the cigarette women in Ninotchka...or the lady on the train platform meeting a Nazi.
Jody Gilbert should have won an Oscar for this performance!
Jody Gilbert, Born:
Mar 18, 1916, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Died:
Feb 3, 1979, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
She certainly sat on w.c. Face with her cutting remarks. Remarkable !!
"I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here!"
Classic!
😂😂😂
Oh deer!
Sheer Genius !!!
My favorite W. C. Fields line ever...among many funny ones he said.
" Start the day off with a smile.....and get it over with" - W.C. Fields
The ancient Stoics would appreciate that line.
I am several generations from his performances but his comedy is timeless. What a genius. The greatest of them all.
When I was growing up in the 50s and early 60s I would watch all the comedy greats. Fields, Laurel & Hardy, Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny..... My mother didn't like Fields which assured me he was a comic genius.
W.C. Fields is always classic, but Jody Gilbert more than holds her own with him in this sketch. Wish I could have lived in the 30s and 40s (except for that whole Depression and World War II thing).
SADLY THEY ALL WENT TOGETHER….DR.BRYANT LANE.
He's an old Hollywood pervert.
Well, the Soaring 20's are upon us.
WW 3 & Greatest Depression next.
Hope we make it thru to the 40s...
But then you'd be dead now 😅
@Chowda Must've had a hard like 😳
W.C. Is hilarious. “Don’t know why I bother to come in here,the flys get the best if everything”
😂😂😂😂😂
WC was the greatest comedian of ALL TIME. His humor was very sophisticated, though seemingly simple. One of my favorites (being a golfer) is 'The Dentist.' 'The Bank Dick' is also great - especially the family scenes.
"I forgot to take the cellophane off. Very fortunate that it didn't burn my hat."
Even these little throwaway lines are hilarious.
Supposedly, Cellophane in those days was *very* flammable. I guess that's actually what we're seeing in this clip, though?
no such thing as a throw away line. if there was, it wouldn't make you laugh...
@@ScottRossProductions i know; these boomers have such weird takes on the world
I never tire of this sketch. It still holds up to this day. I doubt very much if the junk that is turned out today will be watched 80 years from now.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
You got that right!
"I don't know why I come in here....the flies get the best of everything".
Oh God, he was so funny.
One of the really great performers of the 20th century.
Two things to know:
For one thing, boater hats like WC has here were used until fall, then the owner would put his fist through it to punch out the top, and then throw it out. This means that in the movie WC took the hat out of trash like a bum would have.
The other thing is that the cellophane used back then was as flammable as gunpowder. That's why it went up like a torch when he tried to light his cigar at the end.
"I recall being lost in the deepest wiles of Africa. Lost my corkscrew. Had to survive on food and water."
W. C. Fields one of the best comic actors. Very underrated. One of the very few comic geniuses.
Underrated? He was one of the biggest stars of the day ffs.
Yes...that's right....very underrated..yawn....just like all the other big stars...Chaplain, Lloyd, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy all underrated. All these mega stars were underrated.
He was one of the biggest stars of his era, is what I understand.
@@johntate5050people just love saying underrated I suppose they imagine it makes them sound knowledgeable
"Underrated"!!!! You must be from Mars.
I didn’t get his humor as a sheltered kid, but boy do I understand it now.
Back When Comedy Was Totally Hilarious .... I ❤ WC Fields 😊🇨🇦
Monty Python is pure British comic genius. see: The Lumberjack song, Ministry of Silly Walks, The Dead Polly Sketch, How To Be Not Seen, Gangs of Biker Grannies, and of course the epic cinema piece... Monty Python And The Holy Grael. 5:43
@@briankocheraabcdt4628 True, I'm a Monty Python fan from waaaaaaaaay back. 😁👍🇨🇦
Oh no, not another Boomer whiner, how original... 😱 As if ALL the comedy in the whole wide world had suddenly stopped after the '40s ! Really ? You must be such fun at parties, always reminiscing of the "good 'ole days", whinin' and bitchin' about how the kids dont know anything and can only create crap and all, right ? Take note: since the '40s, at least EIGHT generations of writers and comedians and creators of all types were born by the thousands. And just like previous generations, have attracted millions of spectators and fans, what do you have to say about that ? That they're are bad ? Useless ? Worthless ? Who do you think you are ? Open up your mind, you really need to. Really ! 🙄
This is my comedy genius of over 50 years. Used to lie on the floor watching, and crawl myself into a ball laughing. Mint, totally love him so much.
Don't make me cry😁😁
W.C. Fields to Mae West on the train: "Ah, what a euphonious appellation." "What symmetrical digits." Such polysyllabic flattery.
IMO, Mr. Fields still holds the title of funniest human being. ⭐️
This is poetry, every utterance, gesture, and grunt. Comedy at the highest level.
Awfully good.
I'm not getting it. I want to but I'm not. I'll keep trying.
@@commenter6722 ok no
@@commenter6722 subtlety; all about subtlety
@@commenter6722 I've decided I can go on living without admiring WC Fields.
WC FIELDS was a Philadelphia boy..he obviously was eating in a South Jersey diner..because the best Waitresses like this are from New Jersey
My Grandad and his generation grew up with this stuff. I was too young to appreciate it before he died, but utterly love it now, and fight back bitter tears I cannot share the laughter with my Grandaddy. Man, this stuff is gold.!
His responses to his nagging wives, the muttering "Yes dear, ah, no dear." is my Dad responding to my mom's nagging. He was a Fields nut. She knew what he was doing and that made her even madder.
I love how Fields is so at odds with not only his social environment but inanimate objects.
David Mayhew true that thar!
just when i thought i was the only one!
🤣🤣🤣
Fields was one of the first to recognize the actual perversity of inanimate objects
I’m ABSOLUTELY amazed as to just how good the quality of this video clip is! By the way, I subscribed to the channel and clicked onto the bell icon to receive all of the notifications and also gave this video clip a GREAT, BIG, HUMONGOUSLY COLOSSAL “thumbs up”!!!
I can recall as a child, decades after W.C. Fields passing, how he was still a well known and loved cultural icon held in high regard for his classic and timeless talents while in more recent generations he's probably all but unknown.
Blame the degenerate US education system. More focused on pronouns than literature, theatre, film, music, history, not to mention Mathematics and Science. Disband the teacher’s unions… I’m a not proud member.
@@jessewolf7649 the education system should be teaching us about 100 year old comedians? the hell are you smoking buddy?
@@omnesilere A very good cigar.
This scene is perfect, it stands on its own. The actress playing the waitress is amazing. There's comedy in every detail.
Jody Gilbert
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Gilbert
@@rocistone6570 Thanks for this. She was in a hell of a lot of movies!
Yup, and the service reminds me of a commercial, don't even remember the product, where the announcer says, "Did you ever wonder what happened to customer service?" and you see a surly looking waitress bring a plate with a sandwich on it, and, just like W.C.'s waitress with the menu, she kinda throws the plate onto the table, and turns to walk away. The customer says, almost timidly, "Excuse me miss, this sandwich has mayo, and I requested no mayo." She glares at him, comes back, takes the two pieces of bread off the sandwich, wipes the mayo off from both on the side of the table, grabs the meat and places it back between the two pieces of bread She glares at him every harder, turns, and walks off, lol. Seems like W.C's waitress mighta been her grandmomma.
I had a waitress like this the other day and she reminded me of this video.
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up, no sense in being a damn fool about it". W.C. Fields
"If at first you don't succeed,
Stick a bucket o'er yer heid."
- Scots version
Wonderful saying.
We’ve all been in dives like that with a rude waitress
To the 60 "critics" that didn't like W. C. Fields, it's ok. I doubt he would like them. He was one of the great ones.
"The" Great One (to be exact!)
@@michaelsullivan3581 Jackie Gleason was known as the 'the great one', dubbed by Orson Welles.
Ah yeah, they don't make 'em like that anymore!!
M to me de my by
He was not only a great comedic star, but he was considered the best juggler of his time. He was simply amazing; youtube has some videos of his juggling; you won’t believe your eyes.
I remember growing up during pre cable Saturday mornings were cartoons, American Bandstand & Soul Train and Sunday mornings were W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Ma and Pa Kettle, etc films.
OldeSkool1 I used to run home from school every day during the week because the Little Rascals came on at 4 o'clock
Same for me. I remember when silent movies were often shown on TV. Not anymore, damn it. The biggest crisis in Hollywood is that there are no pie fights anymore. No singing cowboys either.
Lawrence Lewis my late father belonged to a "B-Movie Cowboy Club" here in Knoxville, that would get together every so often, and watch old serial westerns, especially the old singing cowboys...they had a show that came on every Sunday...it might still be on
OldeSkool1 saturday morning cartoons. johnny fucking quest brah.
KTVU channel 2 Lloyd Thaxton ? That was a funny guy. How about Wrestling and the Chevrolet car dealer that would sit on top of a ladder talking during his commercials. Jim Westfall the Chevy car dealer ? The Sheik came in and opened the hood of a car one night and started tearing wires and stuff out from under the hood.
Smooth delivery. He's the best. No yelling no cursing, just fun
Absolutely loved this !!!
I could have sworn the waitress works at the Motor Vehicle Agency in New Jersey, and she's just as polite ,if I may.
LOL I think that's the way in the Department of Motor Vehicles in every state.
What does the customer at the table say @ 4:24 after he says he’s suffered from high blood pressure? Listened 6 times and still can’t get it.
@@sparkynomor1100 It sounds like he's saying, "But I lost my dough and I had to give it up". But if that's what he said, I don't get the joke either.
@@johngoodwin4811 it's a joke that's mildly funny on a few different levels
His high blood pressure was likely caused by worry over money (or the stress of working and saving). When he lost his money he says he "had to give up" his high blood pressure - as though it was a hobby that he he could no longer afford. It reverses cause and the effect.
The joke is also that a person may need to give up a boat or a horse or a fancy car because their financial situation changed. Here he is sort of complaining that he had to give up something that's unwanted.
Instead of calling the loss of high blood pressure a silver lining he laments that he can't have the luxury of worry now that he's poorer.
@@howard5992 OK, thanks for the explanation!
True genius never grows old.
The way she sets her cigarette down on the counter, end up. She's very good indeed to hold her own with Fields the way she does.
She played "The Big Woman" they tried to get Gary Cooper (as Alvin York) to dance with, in the little bar on the KY/TN border) in Sergeant York".
Thx had to go back and look, ... nice
Yes, not just a straight man/woman, but an equal player.
one of my favourite pool hall tricks;
the upright cigarette on the edge of the table! 🤣🤣🤣
now that smoking indoors is verboten, i haven't had a chance to play that trick in ~20 years..
i'm off to see if wind doesn't knock my butt off of my patio table..
"no Ham" 🇺🇸🤘🏻
This scene is perfect in every particular. I wish W.C. Fields had made a hundred more movies.
I feel too young to watch this. Nowadays there is a laugh track to help you catch everything. I kept waiting for a pause that never came. lol
WC Fields was the funniest man ever to occupy hollywood, todays comedians couldn't hold a candle to him.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
undoubtedly one of the best. I love all his moves and comments, especially when made under his breath
My grandDad & those of his generation would talk of how comical W.C.Fields was. He would tell me of certain scenes & skits, but I was too young to appreciate it when I was a small kid. Now, I'm a big kid, (52 years old), and get a real kick out of Fields, and wish I still had my GrandDad, with whom I could lay back and laugh & bellow at W.C..!!
Funnier than anything today. The timing of both Fields and Gilbert is brilliant.
I'm not exactly sure why this popped up in my sidebar but I'm glad it did. This could be the beginning of a new fan.
"Flies get the best of everything."
Somehow that's a metaphor for life in general.
If anyone tells you you get more bees with honey, remind them that we get more flies with horseshit.
going in but no so much coming out.
The fly on the wall
Tries to taste it all
Like Powhatan's daughter
Just before the swatter
Especially when you are constantly dealing with the lord of those dammed flies!
The master @ crafty comedy. Its really great when a supporting player can keep up with his pace. Here she certainly did. Great stuff.
Both geniuses. “Excuse me blimpie pie.” “As funny as a cry for help”....... just one swipe after another, hahaha. The world needed this, thanks.
truly comedian's comedians
The guess your weight joke was pretty good too!
Where is W.C. Fields when we need him??
@@MegaGman61 Nowadays he'd get 10 yrs in sing sing for that
Today people get upset about everything.
...I didn't say the steak was tough...I merely said I didn't see the old horse that used to be tethered outside...." one orf my favoerie Field's lines...
"Aaaa RINGER" !!!!
In 1964, low on cash, I ordered "steak a cheval" at a small hotel in Calais.
Love the name Mohammed Cohen.!.You are a top guy!.
This skit never fails to cheer me up. Thanks to all for the background info. I was glad to learn the actress's name was Jody Gilbert.
I could watch this skit daily !
A relation of Billy Gilbert perhaps ?
@@johnlewis9745 Google it, perhaps.
No profanity no laugh track. Still better than anything going today
Its called inflation...soon you will despise the word
@@briancarno8837 what has that have To do with this comedy skit?
@@br529 I was replying to the comment about how the price of things has increased...dont know how it ended up here...
@@briancarno8837 Double digit INFLATION in just 4 months. Thank Joe Biden and all the Democrats! Oh, and BTW, inflation is still a TAX. Democrats LOVE taxes!
Just good ol sexual molestation and indoor smoking.
"I was only trying to guess your weight ... you take things too seriously" ... Lordy .. this was like a thousand years before the 'me too' movement !
Not really. Men still did that crap a decade ago.
It was just as unwelcome then
@@Anne--Marie ‘a decade ago’?
An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake, finds his way to a barstool and
orders a shot of Jack Daniels..After
sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender,
> > "Hey, you wanna hear a blond
joke?"
The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to the old
blind cowboy says, "Before you tell that
joke, Cowboy,
I think it is only fair, given that you are
blind, that you should know five important
things:
1 The bartender is a blond girl who's holding a baseball
bat.
2. The bouncer is a blond girl with a
billy-club.
3. I'm a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blond woman with a black
belt in karate.
4. The woman sitting next to me is blond and a professional
weightlifter.
5. The lady to your right is blond and a professional
wrestler. Now,
think about it seriously, Cowboy. Do you still wanna tell that blond joke?
The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head and
mutters, "Well hell no, not if I'm gonna have to
explain it five times."
@NibiruLives thank gawd it was a slow night at the bar!
I'm going to let that slide because I like you. Next time, watch it.
Good one! 😆😆😆😆😆
@NibiruLives How do you expect this story to come out, you idiot? 😡
Love 💕 it!!!’
“All women are crazy. it’s just a matter of degree.” the great WC Fields
Fortunately some are crazier than others
That observation alone makes him one of the best philosopher and an anthropologist at the same time!
Yup, bitches be crazy!
Ditto 😊
Ditto😎
He was hilarious. He said he always carried a flask of whiskey in case of snake-bite. He also always carried a snake.
Did you get this quote from Manx, Heard and Nelson's superb biography 'The Bundy Drive Boys?' My guess is that you did.
@Wes McGee LOL!
typical, lol!
😂😅😂
@@guyseydel1080;!
Love the back-and-forth over "Who told you I was clever?" "I told them not to say anything."
I also wonder why he went there. That restaurant never seemed to have any food to serve!
Deutschie : Perhaps this inspired Python's Cheese Shop sketch.
“....you big kabloona.” “I haven’t been called that for two days.”
More proof that Mr. Fields belongs on the Mount Rushmore of comedy.
~ " Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch " W.C. Fields
Who put pinapple juice in my pinapple bottle ?
And the incomparable Jody Gilbert. Wish she did more movies. This is a great scene with the great and can't get enough of W C Fields.
You are so right about Jody Gilbert being incomparable...as great as Fields is, her outstanding performance here, makes him that much better
daniel lack Agree with you completely. Check her out in a minor Kirk Douglas comedy (!) "My Dear Secretary" - some classic moments with her when applying for a job. Glad to see another appreciator of this wonderful comedienne.
Her acting is totally believable and very modern, so unlike the era. Why have I never heard of her before? Gonna look up everything she did!
@@AllAmericanJock a lot of unbilled parts and none so full of dialogue as this one. We should start a group of admirers! So many great character actors!
Every tiny detail of Gilbert's movements and gestures is superb. Look what she says with her hands, and with the way she breathes, and moves her shoulders, at 1:37 through 1:45.
This is my favorite! When I was only about 7, I used to imitate WC Fields saying "my little chickadee"!
I had an Uncle ,who, in a sleazy diner,said, "Just give me an order of Flyshit. that's all I see on this menu".
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No doubt everyone in the diner guffawed from that magical quip from your wag of an uncle! Or perhaps indifferent silence...
That's hysterical
A pile of shit 💩has a thousand eyes 👀
Orson Welles and W. C. Fields were great friends, and Welles said that eating dinner in a restaurant, or going to a bar with the comedy great was an incredibly entertaining experience. Welles said that he often laughed so hard at Fields and his zany antics that he thought he was going to pass out!
Good thing he didn't, he might've crushed Fields when he fell
@Milos Bulajic What a horrendous and stupid misuse of a comparison intended for serious purpose. AND you based it all on an assumption!! Jackass MUCH - JACKASS?!
@Milos Bulajic Oh wait - maybe you're of enormous mass yourself.... Is that it pal... does gravity have you feeling down?
@Milos Bulajic You don't understand 'tone' for shit do you. Yeah I'd say my initial assessment is right on - JACKASS
@Milos Bulajic You're so full of gas, platitudes and cheap outs I'm surprised you just don't float away. Must be your enormous ass... er I mean mass LoL
He Was A Character, and Brilliant ! Always Loved the way he mumbled smart ass comments under his breathe. I like how he said " excuse me blimpie pie " as he leaves the diner. Loved the " aren't you a little confused ? " Uhhh, in which way ? " She was a good match for him, they bounced off each other quite well ! Thanks a thousand times !
There was only one WC... he was so hilarious!! Good memories of my dad and I laughing while watching him back in the 60s!!
Hello friend, how're you doing today??
@@williamrolls169 Hello William, this is not a dating app.
Does not get old! Brilliant!!!
The back and forth dialogue between actors in old movies and old shows were definitely better
No
Lol she crossed off all the meat choices from the menu and left him with the choice of eggs and bread. But the customer by the wall is eating some type of meat dish. 😂
Yes, he got the last one.
0:35 “Is there any goulash on this Menu?”
I nearly choked when she wiped it off… 🤢😂🤣😂
"Roast beef gravy"
He met his match in Jody Gilbert. I'd call it a draw.
She played "The Big Woman" they tried to get Gary Cooper (as Alvin York) to dance with, in the little bar on the KY/TN border) in Sergeant York".
She's phenomenal! I had never seen her before--went toe to toe with him!
Went to the Pub again last night. There was this very BIG woman
dancing on a table. I said, “Good legs.”
The girl giggled and said, “Do you really think so?”
I said, “Definitely! Most tables would have collapsed by now.”
I’m not welcome there anymore. But who cares?
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lol
top kek
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Every time I watch this I laugh like it was the first time I’ve seen it. This scene is a classic. There’s no one that can replace WC Fields.
I love the way they make his nose big in makeup, it's amazing and with a little red in it too. This is a great skit from the olden days that we should all appreciate
Now this is comedy, this will last for ever when all the alternatives will be long gone.
No laugh track required. Love it!
Makes you wonder what everyone's eating. Eggs with coffee. And milk. 🤣
WC Fields is one of my all-time comedy favorites. He finished his movie career in grand style with the incredible one-two punch of The Bank Dick (1940) and Never Give A Sucker An Even Break (1941) both for Universal, both incredibly surreal (especially Sucker) and both featuring incredible car chases! Thanks for the explanatory note about Gosha, I will offer a blessing in his honor the next time I eat a goolab jamaan!
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Groucho Marx was once a guest at Fields` house ,after a tour of the main house WC showed Groucho a huge outhouse which was stacked floor to ceiling with bottles of alcohol.Groucho says `don`t you know prohibition is over`. `Yes `says WC `but it might come back`.
electricleg ...😂😂😂😂😂
Fields answered: You never can tell.
He's right, you know! One never when things like Prohibition might come back. 😆😆😆😆😆
It wasn't an outhouse, it was in his attic. And Groucho and Bill were good friends. Otherwise it's correct.
Kungflu closes all liquor stores....
I didnt search for this but I'm glad TH-cam recommended this one.
He was a master at the snide comments humor.
Have always known about W.C. Fields. Didn't know he was this hilarious. Wasn't old Hollywood just great?!
Not being a goodlooking man at the time worked for him in comedy. Today he would be very lucky to work in Hollywood
Look up his body of work
This was filmed in the old Pioneer Dairy Cafe 332 Spring Street Los Angeles California. Dame Mae Fishman had a bit part in this movie.Dame Mae Fishman, a celebrated silent screen actress, rises to fame alongside her friends Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, only to find herself facing immense obstacles in her personal life and career.
Simply put. a comedy genius. Outstanding timing. I love his sotto voce comments as well as the "I was only trying to guess your weight" comment.
The man had a routine all his own. That's brilliant deadpan stuff
I spent many Saturday night in the 60s and early 70s getting stoned and watching WC Fields! That man was a comedic genius!!
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
It seems waitresses in diners haven't changed much hahaha
Tiger found some keepers at Perkins.
Nor have customers.
W.C. was one of a kind. The ice cubes coming out of the pants and that voice!