Daily Dialogue — April 28, 2015

Gibbons: Well, now. Uh… Ladies and gentIemen of the j-j-j… of-of the j-j-j… (coughs)… jury! Um… On-on… on January ffffffff… fourth of this year, my client did, indeed, visit the Sac-o-Suds c… um… co… um… um… convenience store. But-but… he didn’t, um… (sniffs)… kill anyone. He, um… We intend to prove that the ppppp… prosecution’s case is circumstantial and-and-and… (sighs)… coincidental. Thank you.

Gibbons returns to the defense table.

Bill Gambini: That’s it? What about everything we talked about?
Gibbons: I get a little nervous.

— My Cousin Vinny (1992), written by Dale Launer

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Stammer. Today’s suggestion by Jon Raymond.

Trivia: Austin Pendleton, a real-life stutterer, originally turned down the part of the stuttering John Gibbons. But he did it as a favor to his friend, Jonathan Lynn. According to Pendleton, he had trouble finding work in film for years because he became typecast as a stutterer.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Jon: “So this establishes the basis for hiring Vinny, the lesser of two evils. Kind of like voting.”