Lenny Bruce |
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Biography of Can you call this comedy ? A discussion of the effects of Lenny Bruce's performance on the rest of performance history. |
"This man is the eighth wonder of the world. You have to go back to Mark Twain to find anything remotely like him. And if they don't kill him, or throw him in jail, he's liable to shake up this whole fuckin' country." ---Dick Gregory "Are There Any Niggers Here Tonight?" "Oh, my god, did you hear what he said? Are there any niggers here
tonight? Is that rank! Is that cruel! Is that a cheap way to get laughs? Well, I think I
see a nigger at the bar talking to two guinea owners and next to them....Now why have I
done this? Is it only for shock value? Well, if all the niggers started calling each other
nigger, not only among themselves, which they do anyway, but among others. If
President Kennedy got on television and said:'I'm considering appointing two or three of
the top niggers in the country to my cabinet'-if it was nothing but nigger, nigger,
nigger- in six months nigger wouldn't mean any more than good night, god bless you...-when
that beautiful day comes, you'll never see another nigger kid come home from school crying
because some motherfucker called him a nigger." Meredith Hebenstreit |
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