Out on the Porch

[Joejhforever]

Why he wears shoes when he is sleeping？

[GREYHNDLOVER]

One of my favorites.



[FinallyTheNight]

The products of corporations, specifically medicants, are perversions (poor versions) of naturally-occurring nutrients.

[mclachi1]

The other funny part is the kid dropping the screwdriver through the knot hole missing his head by millimetres.

[comous]

LaFong....Carl LaFong lol

[comous]

i have a special favor.....please stop playing with those sleigh bell will you?...lmao

[BARNAPE]

Would anyone happen to know in which film W C was on a swinging porch chair being pestered by a kid?

[fredbarkley]

T H E Best Scene of T H E Best.

[QuakePhil]

I don't find this funny at all. What does clean humor have to do with this?

[vpo2g2]

"Oh vegetable gentleman?"

[PacRimJim]

Read his autobiography. He cold-cocked his father and ran away from home. Became a famous diver at Atlantic City. Became a world-famous juggler (see his routines on YouTube). Wrote his own screenplays. BTW, Anthony Quinn's young son drowned in W.C. Fields' pond. W.C. was so distraught that he had the pond drained, permanently.

[MoondogMayne]

"If I did know Carl LaFong, I wouldn't admit it"

[odanak100]

No one then or now can match this genius. Two greatest American humorists - Mark Twain and this man.

[ralphomat]

American Humour at it's best

[Snotra]

Story of my life.

[egbertsousee]

Carl LaFong: capital L, small a, capital F , small o, small n , small g , Lafong , Carl LaFong , i likes it

[tuxguys]

Had to come back to this tonight, after 5 straight hours of giving exams...

If I needed to list the "Ten Funniest Scenes in Cinema," this would be one of them (especially if it included the mother/daughter stuff).

[Chuckscott]

You left out one of the funniest parts. The scene with the mother and daughter yelling back and forth to each other. Hilarious!

[amnesiacsmuzak]

where's the rest of it? the little girl and the mom talking about ipicac or syrup of swills?

[SuperHans64]

Ribald stories! LOL!

[30kitcat]

"IT'S NOT BISSONET, IT'S BISSONETTE, ACCENT ON THE E!"

[torgotom]

STILL. one of the greatest comedy films ever.

[stewballmax3]

I LOVE the way the coconut seems to have a mind of its own and goes purposely out of its way to irritate Fields...that is priceless!

Thanks,

Max

[Jayee123]

I first saw this routine twenty years ago. It never gets old.

[ebillyboi]

with freeview 100 or so channels in the uk ...

no one broadcasts such genius as with most greats of the last century?

Carl lafong!

[AsEasyAsEasyIs]

 Some of us can't distinguish betwixt Grady Sutton & Frank Sutton.

[Shadowshabby]

So so funny! Who were the idiots that voted thumbs down on this?

[jwillis5039]

this was my grandpas favorite comedy,he died in 1977 at 77 ,i can see why he loved it. this movie is hilarious. i love his wife.

[Snotra]

Such is life, Cheers!

[christygum]

The most hilarious scene ever filmed!

[timbueter]

Life in hell.  A classic.

[48alfaone]

Found it at: "Its a Gift (1934)" here on you-tube. Great WC movie, everyone should see it!

[48alfaone]

Please post the full movie. It would be great to see again. Thanks.

[odanak100]

When Baby Leroy drops the ice pick on him, its pure genius

gets me every time

[sdimas73]

HellOhKitty,

The complete It's A Gift is a available here in 10 minutes segment.

Search under WC fields or it's a gift.

[sdimas73]

Hint: Check you local library for Fields' DVD.

For those in the Los Angeles County, the following are available:

You can't cheat an honest man

International House

My Little Chickadee

The Bank Dick

It's A Gift

[MisterWensleydale]

WC was the greatest. Nice to know that some things don't change. Insurance salesmen are still trying to push crappy annuity policies.

[canebluff]

I haven't seen this classic bit in years. Thanks for uploading it. One of the best of WC.

[yunney]

Great post - thank you!

Salesman (speaking of Carl LaFong): "Well he's a railroad man and he leaves home very early in the morning."

Mr. Bissonette: "Well he's a chump."

LOL!!!

[xhyio]

Oh Fields, if only you were with us today. You could teach some of these "comedians" how it's done.

[chickenthr33]

This was cut short, there was more...

[jackiemickie]

What a great scene.

[hell0hkitty]

any chance of getting this whole film? 'i have to get up in the morning and get breakfast for you and the children!!!!! i have no maid you know!!'

[Phildey]

Great movie., Fields was a comic genius.

[432F01]

.......and if I did know Carl LaFong, I wouldn't admit it.

[SundownerDrifting]

This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. I always laugh uncontrollably during this scene. The coconut especially has me practically crying with laughter!

[cosneg1149]

W.C. Fields in my opinion was one of, if not thee geatest comedians ever. The man was a comidic genius. I could watch his movies every day. I wish there was someone close to his skills as a comidian, this gentleman wrote almost all of his movies.

[SKIPINTRO9]

A brilliantly crafted sequence of events, hilariously funny. W.C. Fields was undoubtedly a genius of comedy. A salutory contrast to the foul mouthed guttersnipes foisted on us by today's mass media.

[LittleItalianGal33]

sleigh bells, that's pretty funny! :)

[LittleItalianGal33]

WC Fields is so funny in this movie. I just can't help laughing. :)

[jackiemickie]

I agree.

[BSUGrad]

WC Fields is the worst thing to happen to comedy.

[felixjazzage]

What sort of medication are you on, anyway? Just wondering, because obviously your judgment's badly impaired.

Obviously, Fields was one of the *best* things to happen to comedy, ever.

[BSUGrad]

My last message must have disappeared. Anyway, I am on no medication. We viewed this in my comedy course in telecommunications. Three others and myself agree that "It's a Gift," supposedly one of Fields' funniest films, was irritating at best. I personally have come to the conclusion that funny back in his day referred to extreme frustration. This scene especially was PAINFUL to watch. 6 minutes I will never ever get back in my life.

[felixjazzage]

Sorry, I value the opinion of just about every major film critic of the past 6 decades, who almost all universally applaud the film work of W.C. Fields, over that of you and your 3 pals in some telecommunications course at some middling state university. I know that's hard for you to believe, but I do have a right to select the best source.

This scene is *brilliant*; the timing's impeccable & Fields couldn't do a better job of showing a small slice of life of a beleaguered, cranky everyman.

[felixjazzage]

All of this just confirms to my mind that the taste & sense of humor of many of today's twenty-something's have degenerated to an almost neanderthal level. I can only imagine what sort of lurid, asinine trash you prefer to W.C. Fields. Yep, that's an ad hominem response, but, frankly, you're an idiot.

[felixjazzage]

Correct spelling as "twenty-somethings".

[BSUGrad]

Basically everything else we had in the class was excellent. Going down the list: Charlie Chaplin, Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Albert Brooks, Richard Pryor and Bob Hope's Road movies. Outside of it, Victor Borge, Jonathan Winters and Phil Silvers to name a few. W.C. Fields is just boring and frustrating to watch.

[felixjazzage]

Precisely how many films by Fields did you watch? Was this one it?

...And, honestly, I can't believe anyone would prefer Bob Hope to Fields. It's not that Hope's terrible, but he's just not in the same class.

[BSUGrad]

This one. And it is his highest rated comedy. Maybe some of his other work might be tolerable, but in my view of all the comedians out there, his is the worst. I was cringing far more that laughing.

As far as Hope goes, it is all about preference. Both are personality comedians and have their own masks. This one is to play a hapless idiot that gets dumped on by a spouse and kids while having no redeeming qualities in the character. You almost feel sorry, but then he buries it further.

[felixjazzage]

The whole point of Bissonay and all the rest of Fields's characters is just that--they have no "redeeming qualities" or precious few. They are bitter, somewhat misanthropic, yet strangely sympathetic at times, at least in his best roles. His characters are 3-dimensional and all the better for it. Hope's amusing, but a basically a cartoonish figure.

You simply can't claim to understand all aout Fields after seeing precisely 1 of his films, & there are many who dispute that "Gift" is his best.

[mrbachtell]

You gave it your best shot. BSUGrad must have a gaping hole in his/her soul --- where W.C. Fields should be.

[Bigstooler0]

i just lost half of that reading your comment (which is beyond bizzare) and writing this reply. "Nut's!"

[beefnotfish]

I remember having insomnia one night many years ago so I got up to watch TV and "It's A Gift" was on at like 3 in the morning... I laughed like hell!! It almost made it worth having the insomnia...This Comic Gem of a movie is 75 yrs old... A Masterpiece!

[Interstate08]

Whenever I see black and white video of an old show I'm expecting to see something corny... but this was actually quite funny and enjoyable to watch. :-P

[Snotra]

He looks hungover!

[Snotra]

I bet the camera men must have been laughing like madmen!

[boxingglovelove]

No, it's LaFong. Capital L, small A, capital F, small O, small N, small G. LaFong. Absolutely outstanding!

[tallpaul521]

This scene, where the insurance salesman walks up looking for Carl Lafong was used in The Sopranos - Tony Soprano is watching TV and this scene is on.

[StankyHotfoot]

As good as Potato Head Blues by The Hot Fives!

[SinThomas]

God Bless the person who put this excellence on ............. Marvelous

[djthunderdog]

Are those Kellogs Corn Flakes at 1:36? Also remember more of the film with the child dropping stuff from the floor above.  Classic stuff.

[gnolti]

Editing glitch. It hardly spoils the scene, though.

[VINNYMOR]

Why is his bench level at 2:49?

[UFOSPACE1999]

cuz he put a pan underneath it??

[VINNYMOR]

If so, why would he remove it again before 2:57? I believe the coconut is more of a concern to him than lying on a decline. Nor does he appear to have the energy to make two adjustments within 8 seconds. It is a blooper.

[gnolti]

Classic, brilliant, immortal.

Long live Karl LaFong.

[SirCyrano]

Six minutes of pure bliss -- sort of like good sex, but even funnier. One of my favorite scenes from any film, ever.

[cbajohn]

One of the funniest scenes of all time!

[mitch5155]

A FREAKEN RIOT.

[mitch5155]

ok wc, I'm on.

These are a riot. All my favs!

Thanks

[tuxguys]

"You would say that..."

[Freethinker82]

"I suppose if I live to be two-hundred I get a velocipede!"

Lol!

[mitch5155]

Thank you Freethinker, I could'nt hear exactly

what word wc was saying. Never heard of it, but looked it up in the dictionary. I love this clip. Watched it over and over many times. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[duskdevils]

re your spelling:

"don't call me mr bissonette in front of mrs bissonette... it's bissoNAY." :)

this is one of my very favorite movies & makes me happy to be living. :)

[21458922]

Not dated in any way, the whole scene still works in the present day. Plus the added charm of looking at a different and long gone era. Isn't this just before he decides to leave and grow oranges in California?

[killerskillet]

Tony Soprano watches W.C. Fields. In fact in Season 5 of the Sopranos, he's watching this very scene, where the man asks for Karl LaFong.

[mka800]

This is one of the funniest scenes ever put on any kind of film. I don't think there's a person alive in Hollywood today who can write OR act anything this original and funny.

[anthemnv]

this is absolutely one of the best scenes ever in film history. i have watched it for decades. a total classic.

[mka800]

It's one of the best cause Fields was a genius.

[swkccr]

One of the best scenes ever from WC...

[dorsetbelle57]

priceless just fantastic!!

[actiscenei]

Classic!

[WCFIELDS66]

i love it

[gnolti]

We need the scenes at the family dinner table to make this set complete: "What'sa matter, pop, ain't you love me anymore?"

[ipmoic]

As I said on another post, perhaps the funniest, laugh out loud 8 minutes ever on film--with the Marx Brothers Maurice Chevalier imitations a close second. Just great Fields at his ornery, hen-pecked best. "Capital L, small a--capital F............but you should have included the pharmacy gag that follows as well--Ipecac or Syrup of Swills?"

[pfitzner1]

That's "syrup of squill", and you're right: that part should be included too. Mrs. Dunk needs it for baby Elroy, to induce vomiting. Priceless, indeed!

Kathleen Howard, as Mrs. Bissonette, is pitch-perfect too.

[mimi2boxers]

or ipecac

[mrobertb]

Thanks for posting this! Do you have any clips of "You're Telling Me?", it's another great Fields film centered on a henpecked husband (WC) and a sour apple of a wife.

[JHSchwarzkopf]

Ol' Knob and Tube wiring...with no ground...heck of a electrical metering setup.

[smudgepots]

I suppose if I live to 200 I get a velocepede?

[KingofClothFair]

I laughed like a drain at this. I think I need a drink.

[texascarl]

Jumping Anaconda!

[movement26]

DANGER....genius at work.

[creamofcardstv]

Your video clip is great and I've rated it as awesome. I've done another clip on some old cigarette cards of 1930's actors and actresses: WC Fields, Florence Desmond, Gracie Fields, Boris Karloff from The Mummy, Charles Laughton, Laurence Olivier and many more.

[gazeff]

No wonder SERIOUS drugs were invented !

[bamsywoo]

Nice to see Mahat Macane again.Great stuff.

[dullicious]

Coming, coming, coming. One of my favourite films of all time. I still watch it on video. There are some great lines in it. Classic.

[ScIz0]

ahaha, post up the rest!

I love this clip!

[withteethjj]

"sweet repose" hehehehe. thanks for this gem, i've been hoping someone would put it up soon. !!