Sir, I'm begging you. Don't try to do comedy. It's not in your blood.
5 seconds sound clip from the Good Morning, Vietnam movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:08:52 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Listen, Sparky, I don't think seeing your little production of Our Town is gonna cheer me up.
- Red leather, yellow leather, red leather. Red leather, yellow leather. Red leather...
- Sir, sir, reading the news is one thing, but this stuff you wrote, it's not funny, sir. It's sad.
- Sir, I'm begging you. Don't try to do comedy. It's not in your blood.
- I'll do fine. Comedy is what you make it. I've got pages and pages of great material.
- I'm afraid you're gonna be hitting bottom, sir.
- If it isn't funny, then why did I hear you laughing when you typed it?
- I was thinking of something else.
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