"Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much; such men are dangerous." So, the fat man has become the good guys, and the skinny ones are the bad guys, just because William Shakespeare said so. But with all due respect, where are the facts. Where is the body of evidence to prove that the fats are less treacherous than the leans. We are about to regale you with a tale about a jolly, fat man, named Joseph B Jefferson.