Who’s in the Header Photo?

My daughter Mabel snapped this shot of me alongside a lifesize cut-out of W.C. Fields at the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museum in Times Square. I’d planned to bring the girls to their first Broadway show that day (we were considering Mamma Mia!) but we ended up spending the afternoon at Ripley’s instead.
Why is W.C. Fields a Believe It Or Not icon? I don’t recall. Perhaps it’s all the juggling he did. Or all the drinking.
Believe it, Arnott!