"There's more of gravy than of the grave about you...."

Exquisite. The video production with George C. Scott is the most true to the work. Of some interest are the use of strait-waistcoat for strait-jacket and the reference to Joe Miller's jokes. Joe Miller is said to have been a popular comic actor of the 18th century whose name was put on a popular collection of jests published into the mid 19th century (staggernation.com/jmj/). The wikipedia entry comments that Mr. Miller was said to be unusually serious while at the Black Jack Tavern, and other Drury Lane players sarcastically attributed new jokes to him. There is also a Joe Miller Joke Day on his birthday (August 16th) on which it is apparently customary to tell an old joke.

Jest number XLI. from Joe Miller's Book of Jests (http://www.elfinspell.com/Humor/JoeMiller/JestBook1.html):

A YOUNG man met a rival who was somewhat advanced in years, and, wishing to annoy him, inquired how old he was ? “I can’t exactly tell,” replied the other; “but I can inform you that an ass is older at twenty than a man at sixty !” (This joke is known to be at least 400 years old.)