Lenny Bruce

Comedian

1925-10-13

Books by Lenny Bruce

How to talk dirty and influence people
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The essential Lenny Bruce
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The Almost Unpublished Lenny Bruce
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Quotes by Lenny Bruce

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
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There are never enough 'I love you's.
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
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There are never enough 'I love you's.
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The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.
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I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
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If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
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I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.
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Today, I give my daughter what I really didn't have as a kid: all the silly, dumb, extravagant, frilly, nonfunctional toys I can force on her. She probably wants an encyclopedia.
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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks, instead of crosses.
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Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God.
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The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
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Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?
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Communism is like one big phone company.
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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
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