A question that, IMHO, isn’t quite serious enough for GQ, but not quite artistic enough for Cafe Society.
Whenever someone does an impersonation of a Kennedy, whether it’s Ted or one of the others in the klan, they usually drop several random instances of “erah, erah” into it. As an example, here’s what a portion of the “I am a Berliner!” speech would sound like, if performed by some comedian trying to imitate JEK:
*There are many people in the world erah erah who really don’t understand erah, or say they don’t, erah,what is the great issue between the free world erah, and the Communist world erah erah. Let them come to, erah, Berlin. There are some who say that communism, erah erah, is the wave of the future, erah. Let them, erah erah, come to Berlin. *
What’s the deal with the “erahs?” I never heard a Kennedy speak like this. There’s a bit of a Boston accent, sure, but they don’t litter their speech with “erahs” the way someone from Cheektowaga would inject “dat der” before every noun.
