A thorough comparison of the films MY COUSIN VINNY (Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei) and LIAR LIAR (Jim Carrey)

Jim Carrey and Joe Pesci both star in humorous courtroom comedies. They use their humor to win their cases and bring many laughs to their audience. Jim Carrey plays the sucessful lawyer, Fletcher Reed, in the movie Liar Liar. He is in a situation wished upon him by his neglected son, Max, in which he cannot lie- and therefore he cannot win his case in the usual manner. It is not just any simple, run-of-the-mill …

…laugh. The whole office begins to laugh, not particularly knowing what they were laughing at. He made fun of every single person in the office, calling them ugly, dirty, old, and than he points at Miranda, who is outraged, and yells "SLUT!" He starts uncontrollably laughing, and then he exits the office. He passes out in relief. When he comes too, he goes to his office. He is fed up with his inability to lie.