W.C. Fields alcoholism and dislike of children isn&#x27;t funny? I think that says more about your own sense of humor than any innate quality of his humor.<p>I absolutely adored his stuff when I first ran into it (admittedly around age 12), and the exchange in My Little Chickadee of, as he and another fellow sit down to play a card game, &quot;Is this a game of chance?&quot; &quot;Not the way I play it, no&quot; I to this day still find sublime.<p><i>&#x2F;end tangent</i>