Bill may be charming, and he may know how to give those "fun" speeches, but last night he showed that he's prepared to use that charm in the role of supporter, to step to the side and let his wife show off her hard-earned chops.
That's when she switched orders and started reworking her Ten Fun Things speech into a less Catholic, more generalized guide to leading a fuller life.
I had a devil of a time coming up with a title — anything that seemed like it was making fun of speech impediments would be unseemly, so I figured the title would have to be just another example of the sound change.
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And he's found the lecture circuit way more fun than speeches-on-the-stump: "I can say whatever I want and don't have to worry about if I offend you because I may lose your vote," he says.
Where were the fun drunk speeches?
"He had so much fun with that speech," Steve Kidder, Wales's college roommate, said.
That's why it was such fun writing the speech given by Grace's father (James Caan) at the end of the film, where he expounds the shortcomings of humanism.
He was explaining the format of the event, something that he thought would be more "fun" than a speech — "which I've been doing over and over and over" — but the instructions could also be a shorthand for Trump's theory of campaigning, if not of everyday life.
And if the speakers at next week's GOP convention will try to poke fun at the speech on those grounds, they'll get laughs in the hall, but I will bet that the jokes won't resonate outside the pews of the already-believing.
