Description:
I have not heard all of the routines on this CD yet, but I am pleased that it exists. I have only heard "The Temperance Lecture" and "The Day I Drank a Glass of Water," which seem out of time, yet not dated at all-- W.C. Fields' humor was so bizarre that the effect of these monologues must have sounded as unique and strange at the time he recorded them as when he came out. He has no peers, no "type," he simply did his own thing. It is not dated-- it is simply freakish in any era. The two routines I have heard are typically brilliant of Dukenfield. He drawls out phrases like "distilled damnation," and "devil's brew" seemingly off the top of his head-- as well as an amazing array of big words, rare words, obscure words. And absurd musings and ramblings-- "I always keep the devil's brew handy, in case I ever get bit by a snake, which I also keep handy." The pure strangeness of it, is hilarious. "The Temperance Lecture" and "The Day I drank a Glass of Water" are worth hearing, and re-listening to for anyone who has an absurdist sense of humor. Think of it as a precursor to Monty Python, Adam Sandler's bumbling characters, The Simpsons (Conan O'Brien has admitted that W.C. Fields was the first one with a real weird sense of humor that influenced him), and the learned intellectual nihilism of George Carlin.

Track Listing:

1.	Swimming To Catalina
2.	Pirates & Glass Eyes
3.	W.C.FIELDS
4.	Promotions Ltd.
5.	Returning After Serious Illness
6.	The Way To W.C.
7.	Fields Drank A Glass Of Water
8.	Gillwig Drugstore
9.	The Temperance Lecture

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