“In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls - Lenny Bruce” — Andy Thibault 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
I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think — Dorothy Kilgallen Copy Share Image
I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and… — Billy Connolly 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
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of. — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
My influences as a comedian and filmmaker are Albert Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Andy Kaufman and John Cassevettes. — Sam Seder 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
“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 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
You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
Lenny Bruce did clean TV. You have to be able to do that, I think, to succeed because if you want to… — Jim Norton 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
They shouldn't call anything a boot camp unless you're going off to war. Standup boot camp has been a fantastic thing, for… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as… — Kevin Keck 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
“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 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
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 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
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 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
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
Thanks to people like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, it's real freedom to do stand-up comedy. — Simon Amstell 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
When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots… — Richard Lewis Copy Share Image
“The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr... These guys were… — Jerry Stahl 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
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was… — David Markson Copy Share Image