Kofsky, Frank (1974). Lenny Bruce: The Comedian as Social Critic & Secular Moralist. Monad Press.
Fuente: Hombres y mujeres célebres en la historia argentina. Editor Humberto Quiroga Lavié. https://books.google.es/books?id=T-OkjZUxOeMC&pg=PT211&dq=Si+Jes%C3%BAs+hubiera+sido+ejecutado+hace+veinte+a%C3%B1os,+los+ni%C3%B1os+cristianos+no+llevar%C3%ADan+cruces+en+el+cuello+sino+sillitas+el%C3%A9ctricas&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijr8nGoq_gAhVC6uAKHe3YB2AQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Si%20Jes%C3%BAs%20hubiera%20sido%20ejecutado%20hace%20veinte%20a%C3%B1os%2C%20los%20ni%C3%B1os%20cristianos%20no%20llevar%C3%ADan%20cruces%20en%20el%20cuello%20sino%20sillitas%20el%C3%A9ctricas&f=false
Frases de Lenny Bruce
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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.
Frases Lenny Bruce
Original: «The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't».
Fuente: The Power of the Word: The Sacred and the Profane. Editor Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. ISBN 9781443879903. p. 37. https://books.google.es/books?id=T2kHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37&dq=The+only+honest+art+form+is+laughter,+comedy.+You+can%27t+fake+it...try+to+fake+three+laughs+in+an+hour+--+ha+ha+ha+ha+ha+--+they%27ll+take+you+away,+man.+You+can%27t&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia0a_Zta_gAhXjz4UKHVdhAYcQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=The%20only%20honest%20art%20form%20is%20laughter%2C%20comedy.%20You%20can't%20fake%20it...try%20to%20fake%20three%20laughs%20in%20an%20hour%20--%20ha%20ha%20ha%20ha%20ha%20--%20they'll%20take%20you%20away%2C%20man.%20You%20can't&f=false
„Todos los días las personas se alejan de la iglesia y regresan a Dios.“
Original: «Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God».
Fuente: The Yale Book of Quotations. Editores Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R Shapiro, Fred R. Shapiro. Colaborador Joseph Epstein. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780300107982. p. 111. https://books.google.es/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA111&dq=Every+day+people+are+straying+away+from+the+church+and+going+back+to+God..+Lenny+Bruce&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivnbLfpK_gAhXr1-AKHSB_D_EQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Every%20day%20people%20are%20straying%20away%20from%20the%20church%20and%20going%20back%20to%20God..%20Lenny%20Bruce&f=false
Fuente: The Essential Lenny Bruce, edición de John Cohen, 1967.
„Moriré joven pero es como besar a Dios.“
Refiriéndose a su adicción a las drogas.
Original: «I'll die young but it's like kissing God».
Fuente: The Yale Book of Quotations. Editores Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R Shapiro, Fred R. Shapiro. Colaborador Joseph Epstein. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780300107982. p. 111. https://books.google.es/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA111&dq=Every+day+people+are+straying+away+from+the+church+and+going+back+to+God..+Lenny+Bruce&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivnbLfpK_gAhXr1-AKHSB_D_EQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Every%20day%20people%20are%20straying%20away%20from%20the%20church%20and%20going%20back%20to%20God..%20Lenny%20Bruce&f=false
Fuente: The Essential Lenny Bruce, edición de John Cohen, 1967.
„Los pasillos de la justicia. En que el único lugar donde se ve la justicia, es en los pasillos.“
Original: «The halls of justice. That the only place you see the justice, is in the halls».
Fuente: The Yale Book of Quotations. Editores Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R Shapiro, Fred R. Shapiro. Colaborador Joseph Epstein. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780300107982. p. 111. https://books.google.es/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA111&dq=Every+day+people+are+straying+away+from+the+church+and+going+back+to+God..+Lenny+Bruce&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivnbLfpK_gAhXr1-AKHSB_D_EQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Every%20day%20people%20are%20straying%20away%20from%20the%20church%20and%20going%20back%20to%20God..%20Lenny%20Bruce&f=false
Fuente: The Essential Lenny Bruce, edición de John Cohen, 1967.
Original: «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».
Fuente: Córdoba, Gabriel. La práctica de los monólogos cómicos: Ejercicios y técnicas: Stand-up comedy. Taller de Teatro. Editorial Ma Non Troppo, 2017. ISBN 9788499174433. https://books.google.es/books?id=7O54DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT36&dq=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&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil37mytq_gAhUKExoKHV47DAEQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Satire%20is%20tragedy%20plus%20time.%20You%20give%20it%20enough%20time%2C%20the%20public%2C%20the%20reviewers%20will%20allow%20you%20to%20satirize%20it.%20Which%20is%20rather%20ridiculous%2C%20when%20you%20think%20about%20it&f=false
Original: «People should be taught what is, not what should be. All my humour is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the breadline - right back of J. Edgar Hoover».
Fuente: The Yale Book of Quotations. Editores Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R Shapiro, Fred R. Shapiro. Colaborador Joseph Epstein. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780300107982. p. 111. https://books.google.es/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA111&dq=Every+day+people+are+straying+away+from+the+church+and+going+back+to+God..+Lenny+Bruce&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivnbLfpK_gAhXr1-AKHSB_D_EQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Every%20day%20people%20are%20straying%20away%20from%20the%20church%20and%20going%20back%20to%20God..%20Lenny%20Bruce&f=false
Fuente: The Essential Lenny Bruce, edición de John Cohen, 1967.
„I want to perform an unnatural act.
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Lenny as the Lone Ranger, in Thank You Mask Man' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121802/
„Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.“
Variante: Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
„Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!“
Contexto: 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!
Fuente: The Essential Lenny Bruce: his original unexpurgated satirical routines
„I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.“
— Lenny Bruce, libro How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
Fuente: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
as quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to tell the truth 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175844/
„If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.“
Lenny Bruce http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3345229.stm
