Frases de Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce
Fecha de nacimiento: 13. Octubre 1925
Fecha de muerte: 3. Agosto 1966
Lenny Bruce fue un humorista y comediante estadounidense, cuyo sentido del humor utilizaba con profusión la blasfemia. Tras ser condenado por obscenidad en un juicio celebrado en 1964, recibió el perdón a título póstumo, el primero ocurrido en la historia del estado de Nueva York.
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„Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!“
— Lenny Bruce
Context: You can't put tits and ass on the marquee!... Why not?... Because it's dirty and vulgar, that's why not!... Titties are dirty and vulgar?... Okay, we'll compromise. How about Latin? Gluteus maximus, pectoralis majors nightly... That's alright, that's clean, class with ass, I'll buy it... Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!
„Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.“
— Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce: his original unexpurgated satirical routines
„I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.“
— Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
„Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."“
— Lenny Bruce
cited in FUCK http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486585/
„A Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as a descendant from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary, but you and I know what a Jew is: One Who Killed Our Lord... there should be a statute of limitations for that crime. “
— Lenny Bruce
in Lenny Bruce Without Tears 1972 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151327/
„Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.“
— Lenny Bruce
as quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to tell the truth 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175844/
