Which is funnier: comic actor W.C. Fields or the idea of W.C. Fields?
Clue: This is according to journalist Wilfrid Sheed.
Answer: the idea. “I have always felt that the idea of Fields is funnier than Fields himself; that even the face and voice he has taught us to remember are not quite the real Fields.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Wilfrid Sheed,
The Good Word and Other Words (1978), p. 191.