What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
My only challenge was to tell my truth, man... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“The truth is 'what is.' If 'what is' is, you have to sleep eight, ten hours a day, that is the truth.… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share
I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share
If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share
Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share
Dig: I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish. B'nai B'rith is goyish; Hadassah, Jewish. If you live in New… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share
“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.” — Lenny Bruce Copy Share
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share
If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share
