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Humor & Life Quote by Johnny Vegas

"We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves"

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Johnny Vegas is smuggling a generous permission slip inside a joke about failure. "We all have days" opens with that pub-level solidarity he trades in: no grand theory, just the weary truth that the mouth and the mind don’t always cooperate. The line sounds like it’s about tripping over syllables, but it’s really about performance anxiety in its most ordinary form: the gap between what you mean and what you can physically deliver.

Pronunciation is the safe, comedic surface. Everyone’s had the humiliating moment where a simple word turns hostile. Vegas pairs it with something heavier - "give it the emotion it deserves" - and suddenly the flub isn’t just linguistic, it’s moral. There are days you can’t speak crisply; there are also days you can’t rise to the emotional occasion, even when you know you should. That’s the subtext: feeling can be present without being accessible, and sincerity can misfire. The phrase "deserves" hints at obligation, like grief, apology, or gratitude are performances with a required intensity. If you can’t hit the mark, you feel fraudulent.

As a comedian, Vegas has built a persona around the beautifully scruffy catastrophe: the man whose heart outruns his polish. The intent here is both comforting and self-protective. He normalizes the stumble before anyone can weaponize it against him. It’s a soft rebuttal to a culture that demands constant articulation and correct affect - online, on stage, in relationships - as if humanity were a customer service role.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Vegas, Johnny. (2026, January 15). We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-all-have-days-where-we-cant-pronounce-things-148665/

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Vegas, Johnny. "We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-all-have-days-where-we-cant-pronounce-things-148665/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-all-have-days-where-we-cant-pronounce-things-148665/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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Johnny Vegas (born September 11, 1971) is a Comedian from United Kingdom.

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