“I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.”

— Lenny Bruce

as quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to tell the truth 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175844/

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comedian and social critic 1925–1966

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