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TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

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Lenny Bruce
Age: 40 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 1966
Died: August 3
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Screenwriter
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Writer
Mineola
New York
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Whichever
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Crowd
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Advertising
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Gonna
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Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.
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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.
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Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.
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My only challenge was to tell my truth, man... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.
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I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.
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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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Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?
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Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers.
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Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.
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When you're eight years old, nothing is any of your business.
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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.
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Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.
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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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You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.
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Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.
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Life is a four-letter word.
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What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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