Curious Quote by Sheldon Harnick

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by…

— Joe Rogan

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

— Dorothy Kilgallen

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

— Robert Downey Sr

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

“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

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't…

— Bill Cosby

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

— Bernard Goldberg

“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.”

— Betty Smith

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

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

— Simon Amstell

“Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Profanity is the crutch of a conversational crippled. . .

— Rick Sutter