Packet 4: Tossup 5

In one role, this actor tries to strangle a child in a cowboy costume because he thinks his toy gun is loaded. When told he spent a 20 dollar bill, this actor says “oh, what a load off my mind—I thought I lost it.” (15[1])This sworn enemy of the ventriloquist’s dummy Charlie McCarthy wrote screenplays under pseudonyms like Otis Criblecoblis and Mahatma Kane Jeeves. This actor accidentally foils a robbery as Egbert Sousé, whom his neighbors call “soused.” In The (*) Fatal Glass of Beer, this actor has fake snow thrown in his face on the line, “It ain’t a fit night out (-5[1])for man nor beast.” This actor’s jokes often involved his large nose, alcoholism, and hatred of dogs and children. (10[1])For 10 points, The Bank Dick starred what vaudevillian who went by the initials “W.C.”? ■END■ (10[1])

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