“Gee, I really shouldn’t say that, being so normal and everything,” etc.

There’s something hilariously diseased in the way Peter Sellers improvises through this Lolita scene with James Mason. I laugh every time I watch this as it never stops being a sick-genius thing because (a) it feels so unhinged…an impishly eccentric, anything-goes riff on a closeted gay guy trying to ingratiate himself with a straight-arrow, and (b) at the same time Sellers is imitating Stanley Kubrick‘s Bronx-accented voice with a slight lisp…

“A couple of normal guys like us could get together and discuss world events…it’s great to have a lovely tall pretty little small daughter like that…I get sort of carried away, you know, being so normal and everything.”