Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce

13-Oct-1925


United States


Comedian

Lenny Bruce started making jokes at the age of 22 and achieved success before joining the American Navy during WWII. After a respectable cast, Bruce got married and moved to California, where he resumed his standing career, this time offering edgiers, to play the controversy. Authorities quickly identified Bruce's actions and arrested him repeatedly for fraud. A sign of free speech as his career progressed, Bruce struggled with drugs, succumbed to a morphine overdose in 1966.

QUOTES BY Lenny Bruce


I want to perform an unnatural act.

The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.

I was a Jew talking about Goyim religion. If I had just stuck to Moses, everything would have been cool. But, copping to being part of the whole Christ murder conspiracy got everyone goose-stepping again.

You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

There's always a down side with any freedom. It's not just homosexual freedom, but any sexual freedom comes at a price, and that is usually art.

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