Luckily a director stuck him front and center, the rest is history. Vernon has quite the origin story because he had ZERO interest in being on camera, he wanted to be behind it.
"You're in the Army now / You'll always have your chow / You'll never get rich, you.When it comes to movies you aren't supposed to be rooting for the bad guy, but how could I not root for this week's guest Vernon Wells? Vernon played legendary bad guys in Mad Max 2 as Wez and in Commando as Bennett. "Got anything?" "Nah." "Oh, laying down, aay?" "Did you get anything?" "No." "Oh, a slacker!" "Wait a minute! Did you get anything?" "Yeah, didja?" "No! Does it make any difference?" "No, no." ( Moe, Larry & Curly) "Don't you know there are ladies present?" ( Lucille Ball) "Are you sure these are the Three Horsemen?" ( Walter Long) Larry's a minor, he's 44." ( Gertie Green & Moe) "Will the lady with the lucky number come and get me please?" ( Larry) "Did'jya ever hear of Snow, Snow, Beautiful Snow?" "Why yes, did you write that?" "No, I shoveled it." ( Curly & Phyllis Crane) "Atwhay areay ouyay oingday onighttay? But you wouldn't know a thing about that, would you?" "Oh, onay." ( Larry & Lucille Ball) "If you get there first, put a chalk mark." "What'f you get there first?" "Then I'll rub it out." ( Moe & Larry) no difference." ( Larry, Harry Bowen, Moe & Curly) "Is it honest work?" "Does it make any difference?!!!" "No, no. "Let's play post office." "That's a kid's game." "Not the way I play it." ( Curly & Phyllis Crane) "She thinks it's ermine." ( Moe and Lucille Ball)
"Boy, did I pick me a double order of skunk!" "What does he look like?" "Well, I don't remember his face but I know he had had appendicitis." ( Ted Healy & Bonnie Bonnell) "You know what a burden is don'tcha?" "Yeah, a burden the hand is worth two in the bush." ( Ted Healy & Larry) I shook so, my handcuffs fell off." ( Ted Healy) "I never attended a Strawberry Festival, but I attended a meatball." "Alone?" "No, with spaghetti." ( Ted Healy & Mytle Vail) "Hey fellas, do you know The Road to Mandalay?" "Yeah, do you want us to play it?" "No, I want you to take it." ( Ted Healy & Moe) "We was the hit of the show!" "Of course there was only 3 acts." "And 2 of the acts was detained elsewhere." ( Larry, Curly & Moe) "We want a young comic, one that'll sing and dance and hand out some good, old-fashioned belly laughs." "You'll never get one funnier than I am." "Look at the start you got with that face." ( Myrtle Vail, Jimmy Conlin & Larry) "I won't say au revoir because I know you won't understand me, but as I walk out I'll have a piece of mistletoe on my coattail." ( Ted Healy) Savvy? Savvy Confuscious?" "Why bring sex into this?" ( Ted Healy & Curly)
"You know what I'll bet, these girls will understand me. why don't you ask her?" ( Ted Healy & Curly)
"It's too bad we can't get the mother to acquiesce." "Maybe her mother does. (pointing to Curly): And this is Beau Hunk. Ted Healy (introducing Chinese girls Bo-Ching and Bo-Ling): Meet Bo-Ching and Bo-Ling. "Who are these gentlemen?" "Gentlemen?! Cut out the sarcasm!" ( Thomas Jackson & Ted Healy) Then we'll bring in an interpreter to go over it!" ( Ted Healy and Curly) "I'll explain everything." "Yeah, Mullins will explain it. "Gimme a 3 letter word meaning 'rat'." "Meaning 'rat'?" "Yeah." (Ted points to Curly) "Him." ( Moe and Ted Healy)