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Satire is tragedy plus time.

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Lenny Bruce
Age: 40 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 1966
Died: August 3
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Screenwriter
Singer
Writer
Mineola
New York
Tragedy
Time
Satire
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I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
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Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.
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You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.
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You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.
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You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.
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I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.
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Communism is like one big phone company.
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Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.
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That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.
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I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.
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Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.
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If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish
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If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
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Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.
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If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.
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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.
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What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
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Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.
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