A W. C. Fields Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the great bulbous nosed comedian-written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio broadcasts.
This set includes:
- "Laughter Demands as a Kind of Necessity"
- "The Whiskey Rebellion"
- "The Red Hornet"
- "The Brittle Starfish"
- "The Blind Bee"
- "Josh Billings Allminax Axioms"
- "A Good After-Dinner Speech"
- "What the Statute Didn't Say"
- "Poppy"
- Meets Jack Benny"
- "Meets Charlie McCarthy"
- "The Pharmacist"
- "The Charlie McCarthy Show"
- "The Talking Seal"
- "The Skunk Trap"
- "With Charlie McCarthy"
- "The Chase and Sandborn Show"
Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is a public radio producer and radio theater dramatist. However, his career has taken him into every aspect of show business, including stage, film, and television as a producer, director, writer, author, actor, journalist, documentarian, and even cartoonist. He is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City.
William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880-December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler, and writer. Fields's comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for children.