Omigod that's funny
Mark Steyn comments on Giacomo Vigna's libel notice against me. Steyn makes some good arguments, but my favourite part is a song Steyn wrote for Vigna. Here it is:
I think for his next courtroom acting gig Mr Vigna should try a musical:
I feel dizzy
Oh, so dizzy
I feel dizzy, not fizzy and gay
In a tizzy
I can't handle any brief today!
(Twirls around, flouncing barristerial robe)
I feel worried
Oh, so worried
I'm so worried I hurried to say
That I really can't proceed today
(Climbs up on witness stand and surveys himself in CHRT mirrored ceiling)
See the barrister in that mirror there:
What's that strangely anxious look mean?
Couldn't really say
Haven't seen a doc
Can't elaborate
But I'm not serene!
(Leaps from witness stand and embraces Judge Hadjis)
I'm not fluey
I'm not screwy
It's just hooey I knew he would buy
For I'm judged
By a pretty wonderful guy!
That last couplet is so precious -- and I really can see it as a Broadway musical number. I picture someone bouncy and a little cherubic, like Nathan Lane, playing Giacomo "Jackie" Vigna. And when he grabs the startled tribunal judge, I picture that role played by someone crotchety and slightly deaf, like Wilford Brimley or maybe even Fred Thompson who's back to acting now. I would have suggested Fred Gwynne, who played the straight-laced southern judge opposite Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny, but Gwynne has passed away, and I wouldn't want Vigna filing a human rights complaint against me, alleging that I was comparing him to, well, Vinny.
That said, I think there could be some wonderful elements in a Vigna musical borrowed from My Cousin Vinny. I'll never stop loving this clip, no matter what the Canadian Human Rights Commission says:
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