Audience Quote by Dorothy Kilgallen

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

— Sheldon Harnick

Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny…

— Joe Rogan

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

— Robert Downey Sr

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

“Late in November, Lenny took off for his eagerly anticipated job in Chicago. It had been nearly a year since he played the chilly…

— Albert Goldman

You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

— Bernard Goldberg

Thanks to people like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, it's real freedom to do stand-up comedy.

— Simon Amstell

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.

— Billy Connolly

W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time. Firmly in…

— Vernon Reid

If you listen to Howard Stern, go back and listen to Lenny Bruce, so you can hear what real talent is.

— Robert B. Weide

“Bruce decides to spend the family fortune on capes and crime labs and to fritter away his free time fighting crazy criminals. Now that's…

— Paul Asay