“I’m not sure I’m going to like Don Mincher. I keep hearing that big southern accent of his. It’s prejudice, I know,… — Jim Bouton Copy Share Image
I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce. — Robert Downey Sr Copy Share Image
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones. — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way. — Freddie Prinze Copy Share Image
I think humor is actually a very serious thing. I think the people who shaped culture, for the better, in the last… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I want to write the reparations joke that makes people go, 'Yay! I'm so happy!' It's easy to go onstage and just… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce,… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
If you listen to Howard Stern, go back and listen to Lenny Bruce, so you can hear what real talent is. — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
“In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls - Lenny Bruce” — Andy Thibault Copy Share Image
My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do… — Lea DeLaria Copy Share Image
I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Thanks to people like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, it's real freedom to do stand-up comedy. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time.… — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious. — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
I went into Vietnam as a young man like John Wayne, because that's what my grandfather told me to do. But after… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
“Mae Brussell began to study the pattern of Nazis coming to the United States after World War Two and patterns of murders… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
I'm not offended. Lenny Bruce taught me that everything's funny. You can make everything funny. I don't think that assassinations are funny,… — Larry King Copy Share Image
