Lenny Bruce – amerykański kontrowersyjny komik estradowy. W 1964 roku został skazany za obsceniczność, a w 2003 pośmiertnie ułaskawiony. Utorował drogę przyszłym komikom kontrkultury w Stanach Zjednoczonych, a proces w którym został uznany za winnego jest postrzegany jako punkt zwrotny w kwestii wolności słowa w tym kraju. W 2017 roku magazyn Rolling Stone uplasował go na trzecim miejscu listy 50 najlepszych komików typu stand-up w historii, za Richardem Pryorem i Georgem Carlinem. Wikipedia
“Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!”
Kontekst: You can't put tits and ass on the marquee!... Why not?... Because it's dirty and vulgar, that's why not!... Titties are dirty and vulgar?... Okay, we'll compromise. How about Latin? Gluteus maximus, pectoralis majors nightly... That's alright, that's clean, class with ass, I'll buy it... Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!
“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”
Wariant: Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
“I want to perform an unnatural act.
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Lenny as the Lone Ranger, in Thank You Mask Man' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121802/
Źródło: The Essential Lenny Bruce: his original unexpurgated satirical routines
“I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.”
Lenny Bruce książka How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
Źródło: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
as quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to tell the truth 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175844/
“If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.”
Lenny Bruce http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3345229.stm
Lenny Brucehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5241370.stm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151327/
“The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”
referred to by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to tell the truth 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175844/
“I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.”
as quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to tell the truth 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175844/
“In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.”
Lenny Brucehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5241370.stm
