Joseph Frady (Warren Beatty): You gotta admit it's funny.
Bill Rintels (Hume Cronyn): It makes me laugh.
But I don't think it's funny.
Frady: What's that supposed to mean?
Rintels: Ever laughed at a comedian
pretending to stutter?
There's nothing funny about stuttering,
but people laugh. They're amused.
But they're not happy about it.
-- David Giler,
Lorenzo Semple Jr.,
Loren Singer (novel),
Robert Towne (uncredited).
The Parallax View. (movie, 1974)