If Sean Penn gets to play Lenny Bruce I'm gonna have to figure that it's one of the seven signs.
Seriously, that would upset me more than when I found out that Julia Child wasn't a drunk and that Chuck Barris didn't do coke, and the aforementioned two had me crying for days.
The human mind vs. heroin... and Lenny almost wins. I'm not Lenny Bruce, and neither are you, and neither are your kids. We can't come as close to winning as he did, and he still lost. Think about it.
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George Carlin and Bill Hicks were the living emobiments of the erudite anti-hero that kept cropping up in Joseph Conrad's novels.
The fallacy to their personas is that neither of them had that special spark of discourse that Conrad could boast. On the same note, neither were ravishingly funny. I always get offended when I hear the likes of Russell Brand cite such comedians as the best ever. It does exposit why Brand's stand up is so poor.
I would wonder which comedians are your "best ever"?
Carlin, on occasion, was as funny as any human being who has ever been recorded. At least in my opinion. Don't take this as an attack, I am genuinely interested into who you believe to be the best.
I must express that my top 5 list or what have you, of stand ups is a list I am yet to be fully decided on. I would tentatively roster Ken Dodd, Dara O Briain and Jimmy Carr to be the most chuckle-worthy.
I view Hicks for example, as closer to a revolutionary and political thinker than I would a funnyman. If you can be funny in a facetious way just as the comedians I have listed were without being innocuous, then you are a comic genius.
I've always assumed Lenny Bruce is a comedian who would need to be followed through an entire DVD's worth of material before his style can be familiarised with.
I'm ever trying to expanding my comedic tastes, so I may yet love the man. We'll wait and see.
@ItsTheCos, got to remember the chronology. Lenny broke a lot of new ground. George Carlin knew Lenny and learned a lot from him. some of George's HBO specials toward the end of his life were way more radical than Lenny Bruce ever got.
Lenny Bruce at his best-high or straight-was stone brilliant. He blazed a path that whole battalions of lesser talents rode to Valhalla.
Blame it on the shifting gales of 60s culture- some good, some bad, some great. Bruce was hard 50s hipster but the delivery, the verve remains riveting.
Start with the 1961 Carnegie Hall concert. Lenny is like Twain on steroids.
Hentoff here is sympathetic, but its obvious that Lenny is higher than ten kites.
7beers makes a valid point. If you have a Lenny Bruce video on here and you make a critical point it's thumbs down. What's funny is Lenny Bruce himself would make a critical comment on here about Lenny Bruce because that's what it's about, the nature of criticism or the ability to think critically. A lot of people lack that ability and instead are led around like sheep being told what to like next. Any criticism or comment is thwarted. Free speech is silenced just like Lenny says.
he was one of the fucking great comedians of all time but he was crucified by the american stablishment for telling the truth about his false morality and rotten politics. bruce and belushi reast in peace. best regards from jesús. spain
He really was insightful, drunk, but insightful. By the way, drunk people making comments about his being tanked is hilarious. He actually did dress in a dress to get out of serving in WW2, and was the template for the character Clinger on MASH.
He's stoned. Otherwise he could turn the motif into satire. He learned if you just do an act do it and move on 'cuz' the audience wants new stuff every day thus his improv style vs the fixed comic routine.
Without writers penning new stuff every day like FOX news, or Leno, it's tough to do. We respected that in him. Still the hypocricy he hated is still selling our country to make a profit. Rest in peace, Lenny.
Lenny Bruce was drunken retard. Many people mistook his ignorance for sophistication. If he was anything remarkable it was his ablitity to mimic an idiot sevant.
He's cool. He's high but that's not the reason he's cool. He's cool. I saw him on Ed Sullivan and didn't have a clue. Now, several years later, I see how real he is.
The aveerraaaggggeeee american doesn't know how to spell - words in their own language - much less cop what Lenny did and said. George Carlin, who repeatedly credited Lenny with paving the way, DID enjoy decades of immense popularity with the American public. Bill Hicks just never made any compromises, and, sadly, failed to have much impact. Anybody out there now? We need all the hep we can get,
Check my spelling because you have failed to make a point, either for lack of research, or plain stupidity. Bill Hicks didnt make an impact on you because you dont get it. You are the average american he is talking about. Bill was much more political than carlin, and therefore controversial. Maybe you dont know, but he had cancer and he was dying. Bill hick was a genius, and he despised most people in this country especially those self-righteous, oprah-watching, consumer puppet like you.
I get it, and I get you, too. No-one has ever accused me of being an average anything, let alone average American. Mr Hicks was not more political than Carlin or Bruce, its just that he appealed to your sensibilities more. If you think I'm self-righteous, consumerist, or even watch TV, you got me w-a-a-a-a-y wrong, pal. Enjoy apocalypse!
wrong, it would not be great to still have him here, he was around then because it was meant to be. If he was around now he would not be the Lenny we remember from then. This world now is too stupid, so he is lucky he is gone.
Whats wrong with average?....were all so busy being brilliant up here, we havent noticed that were f****d; heres the deal.....you, yes, thats you...youre insignificant. If you drop dead tomorrow, the WMF is not going to review its lending criteria..dont believe me? Try it...cut your throat. Im not getting at you really....we all over-estimate our importance; we even invented a god to invent us; anyway, the parties over......its just that no-ones noticed
I think Bill kind felt sorry for people. I wish I knew how much Bill read, and who his favorites writers were, or what what kind of books he read. Like George Carlin, Bill sounded erudite.
I used to have "american scream", bill's biography. I got it off amazon, you probably could too for cheap. In it, it said Bill LOVED Mark Twain, read "every word he wrote", and "Huckleberry Finn" atleast 20 times. He also idolized Woody Allen, who i'm sure he picked up some of the erudition from.
RIP Lenny. You were a prince - the first of the modern jesters- not a comedian - they're just comfort blankets for retards. In days of yore the king's jester - the fool - was the only one allowed to speak the truth - providing he did it 'foolishly'. Without Lenny I doubt there would have been Bill Hicks who really shone a bright light into some dark corners... and died for it.
Look, I'm not trying to open a can of worms here, but I find it interesting that artists of any type who've fallen victim to substance abuse have always gotten a pass as "misunderstood geniuses" (Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Charlie Parker) I'm not saying that Lenny Bruce wasn't a legend - he absolutely was - but why is it that people have such a fascination with artists who get high? Almost every legend in any artistic genre who's become mythicized has been an addict.
You forget all those who died who weren't revered after death. That last sentence is untrue. Chaplin? Karloff? Wayne? Welles? Bogart? Dietrich? Garbo? Caruso? Chaney? Cagney? Stewart? Hepburn? Hitchcock? Dali? Picasso? Holly? I could go on and on. We don't romanticize addicts who happen to have talent - some of the people we romanticize turn out to be addicts. Any early death creates a sense of loss of what the people might have done had they lived. You've got it backwards.
I was hoping my last sentence wasn't taken too literally, but no, I don't think I quite have it backwards. I wasn't trying to make a point of people who WEREN'T revered after death. You named great people who have died, but who weren't addicts, were they? Almost all of the people you named do not have T-Shirts up and down Broadway and Hollywood Blvd.If you ask the majority of people who admire the people I named (include Marilyn Monroe on that list), somehow, drugs payed a part in their myth.
Lenny spoke the truth so he had to die. It's hapened before and will no doubt happen again. Watch the late great Bill Hicks to see what he said about it. This is an incredibly sick planet - far worse than the casual observer might think.
Lenny himself would have pointed out how great this sick world is. Just as ever other comedian then and now. They are always greatful that they can actually do and say the things that they do. He was really a light of hope of what may be, after hate.
You're right, he's not funny. People worship him for one reason: his irreverence. People absolutely adore someone who is naughty for the sake of being naughty. You know, down with the establishment, fuck the church and your parents and Nixon, etc.
i've heard several people mention that they 'dont find him funny.' Lenny talked a lot about what was going on during the 60s, so his commentary goes over peoples heads
he was on a bunch of bennies during this interview......and it was the suppression of his words and thoughts that killed him......in many ways he is a martyr for anyone who dared say FUCK YOU
Lenny took the hit for very few people, I say that because few people were ever able to take Lenny's work into consideration, George Carlin took the "baton" from Lenny and reinforced the truth . . I say give Lenny a brake, whatever his status or health, the man was a comic . . people make mistakes..
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alliant 1 year ago
Wow. Unintelligible.
devourerofbabies 1 year ago
So when is Sean Penn going to play Lenny Bruce in a film?
Honestly. Look at the last two seconds of film. Spitting image.
LeLimeLine 2 years ago
well...for Lenny Bruce to look like Sean Penn, he had to be pretty wasted.
metyuewb 2 years ago
@LeLimeLine You should check out Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of Lenny Bruce in the movie called Lenny. It's an old B&W film but it's great.
scotteh777 1 year ago
@LeLimeLine
If Sean Penn gets to play Lenny Bruce I'm gonna have to figure that it's one of the seven signs.
Seriously, that would upset me more than when I found out that Julia Child wasn't a drunk and that Chuck Barris didn't do coke, and the aforementioned two had me crying for days.
lesterclaypool1 1 year ago
The human mind vs. heroin... and Lenny almost wins. I'm not Lenny Bruce, and neither are you, and neither are your kids. We can't come as close to winning as he did, and he still lost. Think about it.
tuxguys 2 years ago
my god Lenny is shooting heroin HARD here...seen it too many times with these famous people....seems like a cool cat though....R.I.P. Lenny
Raiderfn31 2 years ago
classic.
bostonjoemattson 2 years ago
WOw. I'm so glad I got Lenny Bruce on Clear Red Vinyl record. 33 speed.
rayofminneapolis 2 years ago 4
Who is that interviewer? He's super sexy!
ExistentiaDementia 2 years ago
Looks like Nat Hentoff; at the Village Vanguard
xysterq 2 years ago
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George Carlin and Bill Hicks were the living emobiments of the erudite anti-hero that kept cropping up in Joseph Conrad's novels.
The fallacy to their personas is that neither of them had that special spark of discourse that Conrad could boast. On the same note, neither were ravishingly funny. I always get offended when I hear the likes of Russell Brand cite such comedians as the best ever. It does exposit why Brand's stand up is so poor.
That said, Brand is amusing in interviews.
owenhunt 2 years ago
I would wonder which comedians are your "best ever"?
Carlin, on occasion, was as funny as any human being who has ever been recorded. At least in my opinion. Don't take this as an attack, I am genuinely interested into who you believe to be the best.
ItsTheCos 2 years ago 2
I don't take offence too easily, no worries.
I must express that my top 5 list or what have you, of stand ups is a list I am yet to be fully decided on. I would tentatively roster Ken Dodd, Dara O Briain and Jimmy Carr to be the most chuckle-worthy.
I view Hicks for example, as closer to a revolutionary and political thinker than I would a funnyman. If you can be funny in a facetious way just as the comedians I have listed were without being innocuous, then you are a comic genius.
owenhunt 2 years ago 2
Fair enough. Jimmy Carr for sure is a good comedian.
I have a soft spot for wordplay and euphemisms from my comedians, which is sort of why I like Carlin (especially older Carlin) so much.
You don't have to like Lenny Bruce (he's not my favorite comedian) but not recognizing him for the trailblazer he is is nothing short of idiotic.
ItsTheCos 2 years ago 2
I've always assumed Lenny Bruce is a comedian who would need to be followed through an entire DVD's worth of material before his style can be familiarised with.
I'm ever trying to expanding my comedic tastes, so I may yet love the man. We'll wait and see.
owenhunt 2 years ago
@ItsTheCos, got to remember the chronology. Lenny broke a lot of new ground. George Carlin knew Lenny and learned a lot from him. some of George's HBO specials toward the end of his life were way more radical than Lenny Bruce ever got.
thucton 2 years ago
He's drunk.
ealts 2 years ago 3
Lenny Bruce at his best-high or straight-was stone brilliant. He blazed a path that whole battalions of lesser talents rode to Valhalla.
Blame it on the shifting gales of 60s culture- some good, some bad, some great. Bruce was hard 50s hipster but the delivery, the verve remains riveting.
Start with the 1961 Carnegie Hall concert. Lenny is like Twain on steroids.
Hentoff here is sympathetic, but its obvious that Lenny is higher than ten kites.
zcxspam 2 years ago 2
oh yeah, he's REALLY high here. Did you see the clip from the same interview where he's playing piano? man
motorwawt 2 years ago
7beers makes a valid point. If you have a Lenny Bruce video on here and you make a critical point it's thumbs down. What's funny is Lenny Bruce himself would make a critical comment on here about Lenny Bruce because that's what it's about, the nature of criticism or the ability to think critically. A lot of people lack that ability and instead are led around like sheep being told what to like next. Any criticism or comment is thwarted. Free speech is silenced just like Lenny says.
surfmcgoogler 2 years ago
"Most people never use their initiative
because nobody told them to."
-Banksy
ItsCabs 2 years ago
he was one of the fucking great comedians of all time but he was crucified by the american stablishment for telling the truth about his false morality and rotten politics. bruce and belushi reast in peace. best regards from jesús. spain
noixvoid 2 years ago
loose cannon.,,the comment about kennedy was funny.,,too bad he died to early.,i can imagine what he would say about nobama.,,,lol
mcginnie420 2 years ago
He really was insightful, drunk, but insightful. By the way, drunk people making comments about his being tanked is hilarious. He actually did dress in a dress to get out of serving in WW2, and was the template for the character Clinger on MASH.
rushringsfanatic 2 years ago
he wasn't drunk--he was on drugs--Hogan(otherwise an ok guy) had made his life hell!
vivascargill 2 years ago
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is he mentable disabled or on drugs?
Chronosagaaddict 2 years ago
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FeelOfFriction 2 years ago
He remembers to me another great jew who appeared ever drunken, Serge Gainsbourg. Two geniuses, IMO.
Nostalgico80 2 years ago 2
He's stoned. Otherwise he could turn the motif into satire. He learned if you just do an act do it and move on 'cuz' the audience wants new stuff every day thus his improv style vs the fixed comic routine.
Without writers penning new stuff every day like FOX news, or Leno, it's tough to do. We respected that in him. Still the hypocricy he hated is still selling our country to make a profit. Rest in peace, Lenny.
russocomedy 2 years ago
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Lenny Bruce was drunken retard. Many people mistook his ignorance for sophistication. If he was anything remarkable it was his ablitity to mimic an idiot sevant.
theprofit1138 2 years ago
even when he's this loaded, the stuff he just said was deeper than what most people are intellectual enough to even think about.
jdstit01 2 years ago
i'm a fan. he was a great comedian.
BARCACROSSESTHEALPS 2 years ago
He's cool. He's high but that's not the reason he's cool. He's cool. I saw him on Ed Sullivan and didn't have a clue. Now, several years later, I see how real he is.
grainofsandfan 2 years ago 3
man what an eye opener! i haven't seen a guy this out of it on tv too often in my life time
12inchvertical 2 years ago 2
He sucks
xxmike805xx 2 years ago
Incoherent mess.
godhamba 2 years ago
Even high - he's brilliant!
blueinfinite 2 years ago
Is that Fidel Castro interviewing Bruce?
cattycakes64 2 years ago
haha, he has a beard... thats funny
godsizedhole 2 years ago
The aveerraaaggggeeee american doesn't know how to spell - words in their own language - much less cop what Lenny did and said. George Carlin, who repeatedly credited Lenny with paving the way, DID enjoy decades of immense popularity with the American public. Bill Hicks just never made any compromises, and, sadly, failed to have much impact. Anybody out there now? We need all the hep we can get,
ItsCabs 2 years ago
"The aveerraaaggggeeee american doesn't know how to spell - words in their own language"
"hep"
FeelOfFriction 2 years ago
"H E P" - a word that Lenny used in a life he lived. You missed the twist on it.
Sadder still, the average American doesn't know how to think, analyze, or critique, just react. Glad I moved away long ago.
ItsCabs 2 years ago 4
Check my spelling because you have failed to make a point, either for lack of research, or plain stupidity. Bill Hicks didnt make an impact on you because you dont get it. You are the average american he is talking about. Bill was much more political than carlin, and therefore controversial. Maybe you dont know, but he had cancer and he was dying. Bill hick was a genius, and he despised most people in this country especially those self-righteous, oprah-watching, consumer puppet like you.
numerrita 2 years ago
I get it, and I get you, too. No-one has ever accused me of being an average anything, let alone average American. Mr Hicks was not more political than Carlin or Bruce, its just that he appealed to your sensibilities more. If you think I'm self-righteous, consumerist, or even watch TV, you got me w-a-a-a-a-y wrong, pal. Enjoy apocalypse!
ItsCabs 2 years ago
man imagine how great it would be to have him still here
fullmetalmc 2 years ago
wrong, it would not be great to still have him here, he was around then because it was meant to be. If he was around now he would not be the Lenny we remember from then. This world now is too stupid, so he is lucky he is gone.
TheShipin 2 years ago 3
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DawnnaBee 2 years ago
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here on youtube?
thenewrapstyle 2 years ago
Whats wrong with average?....were all so busy being brilliant up here, we havent noticed that were f****d; heres the deal.....you, yes, thats you...youre insignificant. If you drop dead tomorrow, the WMF is not going to review its lending criteria..dont believe me? Try it...cut your throat. Im not getting at you really....we all over-estimate our importance; we even invented a god to invent us; anyway, the parties over......its just that no-ones noticed
clean3 2 years ago
Where's all my punctuation gone? Are you trying to make me look paranoid?
clean3 2 years ago
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DawnnaBee 2 years ago
you are a fucking idiot... that is what is wrong with being average. Dumb fuck. Go watch madonna.
numerrita 2 years ago 4
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DawnnaBee 2 years ago
dawnnabee is a cocksucker in diguise
iChesus 2 years ago
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DawnnaBee 2 years ago
I really do not think Bill Hicks 'despised' anyone. There was always a glimmer of hope and love in his message
motorwawt 2 years ago 2
I think Bill kind felt sorry for people. I wish I knew how much Bill read, and who his favorites writers were, or what what kind of books he read. Like George Carlin, Bill sounded erudite.
numerrita 2 years ago
I used to have "american scream", bill's biography. I got it off amazon, you probably could too for cheap. In it, it said Bill LOVED Mark Twain, read "every word he wrote", and "Huckleberry Finn" atleast 20 times. He also idolized Woody Allen, who i'm sure he picked up some of the erudition from.
motorwawt 2 years ago
Mark twain! Thank you for the info! Priceless! Plus, the fact that he knew he was dying also had a great influence in his work. Thank you!
numerrita 2 years ago
Hicks would have had more impact...
Dymdez 2 years ago
I hear you man. Doug Stanhope is the closest thing to a 'new' lenny there is today, i'd say
motorwawt 2 years ago
Thanks! Just spent an hour laughing along with Doug Stanhope. New to me, and lovin it! Thanks, again, and keep 'em comin'
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ItsCabs 2 years ago
The avarage american did not get bill hicks or george carlin. They lprefer carrot top and the other retarded tha destroyed the water melon.
numerrita 2 years ago
No...the average American likes Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia. Nobody cares about Carrot Top or Gallagher.
PretentiousHousefly 2 years ago 2
RIP Lenny. You were a prince - the first of the modern jesters- not a comedian - they're just comfort blankets for retards. In days of yore the king's jester - the fool - was the only one allowed to speak the truth - providing he did it 'foolishly'. Without Lenny I doubt there would have been Bill Hicks who really shone a bright light into some dark corners... and died for it.
zthetha 2 years ago 2
Bill died because he smoked 2 packs a day, not because he was some sort of... I don't even know what your saying about why Bill Hicks died.
MankindCartoons 2 years ago
Dig it!
cool22able 2 years ago
He set the precsident.
cool22able 2 years ago
The holy trinity - Lenny Bruce, George Carlin & Bill Hicks.
abadhiggins 2 years ago 22
@abadhiggins Perfectly stated! I couldn't agree more!
SuperStrik9 4 months ago
"Musta' been drinking a little bit"
What a fucking genius man.
WHYNOTTTTTTyeah 2 years ago
at 2:30... "I'm tryin' to make a buck!" Classic!
HunterMann 2 years ago 2
when we feel to much
MatuArt 2 years ago
"The Seminoles never gave up, ya know"
tragicomicus1 2 years ago
nice canned questions and answers........live by it forever and hope maureen dowd lives through hot flashes for another 40 years to defendus all
diablocodyify 2 years ago
i get it
FlyingEnglishman101 2 years ago
this is what im like when im drunk
ghostmonkeyrape 2 years ago
Lenny has an honesty to him that is hard to find.
rebukeasitis 2 years ago 3
he's a gasser...ya dig?
ultrakool 2 years ago
Glorious beard!!!!!
XYZandTime 2 years ago
Heroin is bad mmmm k!
Snotra 2 years ago
Lenny Bruce was a comdiean/Activist of "Word".......I was a teenager who listened to wisdom in all forms, 1950's.
Lenny made the "Establishment" shake from the truth,jajaja.
Many free thinkers smoked, dank, sniffed, it was what was available at the time to deal with injustice.
The pill was Lenny! He took away a lot of stress and rage
Asuntatuya 2 years ago 4
If Lenny smoked grass and he did what he did, he is a genius of his time. Smoke on Lenny, RIP and thank you for all the head opening truths!
MatuArt 2 years ago
amen to that!!!!
kuzimoto1973 2 years ago
amen too .. for fuck me but will never see the likes of him, carlin, hicks, and pryor ..
redabenjfk 2 years ago
Canadians aren't behind...Those cars are still good...those '37 Plymouths
Now it's the 21st Century and things have really changed up here. We're up to FOUR cities now!
franzy1 2 years ago
Look, I'm not trying to open a can of worms here, but I find it interesting that artists of any type who've fallen victim to substance abuse have always gotten a pass as "misunderstood geniuses" (Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Charlie Parker) I'm not saying that Lenny Bruce wasn't a legend - he absolutely was - but why is it that people have such a fascination with artists who get high? Almost every legend in any artistic genre who's become mythicized has been an addict.
utubeissad 2 years ago
You forget all those who died who weren't revered after death. That last sentence is untrue. Chaplin? Karloff? Wayne? Welles? Bogart? Dietrich? Garbo? Caruso? Chaney? Cagney? Stewart? Hepburn? Hitchcock? Dali? Picasso? Holly? I could go on and on. We don't romanticize addicts who happen to have talent - some of the people we romanticize turn out to be addicts. Any early death creates a sense of loss of what the people might have done had they lived. You've got it backwards.
befuddledman 2 years ago 3
I was hoping my last sentence wasn't taken too literally, but no, I don't think I quite have it backwards. I wasn't trying to make a point of people who WEREN'T revered after death. You named great people who have died, but who weren't addicts, were they? Almost all of the people you named do not have T-Shirts up and down Broadway and Hollywood Blvd.If you ask the majority of people who admire the people I named (include Marilyn Monroe on that list), somehow, drugs payed a part in their myth.
utubeissad 2 years ago
Lenny Bruce is my hero.
sandydennisfan 2 years ago
Lenny spoke the truth so he had to die. It's hapened before and will no doubt happen again. Watch the late great Bill Hicks to see what he said about it. This is an incredibly sick planet - far worse than the casual observer might think.
zthetha 3 years ago 4
The planet was made sick by man...
or is it: because of man?
There's still a lot worth saving, just be the good example.
Be open, show respect, compassion and understanding.
I believe you get what you give.
Lenny Bruce & Bill Hicks (Richard Pryor) who focused on the sick and depraved are a rare breed and I think those kind of people have a tough life....
They don't make it easy for themselves and
I love them for it!!
sockmyfatone 3 years ago 2
and carlin...can never forget carlin
Lenny is a genius..not was.....is.
DrStrangefate 2 years ago
Lenny himself would have pointed out how great this sick world is. Just as ever other comedian then and now. They are always greatful that they can actually do and say the things that they do. He was really a light of hope of what may be, after hate.
ansel2784 2 years ago
i just checked wikipedia......the only comedian who does not have an influences is Lenny!!!!!!All the others were somehow influenced by him!!!!
He's the God of satire and black comedy,the real speaker of truth!!!
kuzimoto1973 2 years ago
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This guy makes no sense. He's not funny, he's fucked up on something and he ain't a pun or huh?
raunchbear 3 years ago
You're exactly who Lenny mocks in his comedy.
IndigoPlaedian 2 years ago 2
You're right, he's not funny. People worship him for one reason: his irreverence. People absolutely adore someone who is naughty for the sake of being naughty. You know, down with the establishment, fuck the church and your parents and Nixon, etc.
7beers 2 years ago
I believe that's Nat Hentoff from the Village Voice doing the interview, right?
ozruby 3 years ago
what an amazing mind. absolutely beautiful how truthful we can be.
tracksuitjim 3 years ago
I appreciate what he did for comedy, but I don't find him that funny. Anyone reccomend any good clips to watch?
NicoBattersby 3 years ago
look up the berkeley concert on any p2p network.
i've heard several people mention that they 'dont find him funny.' Lenny talked a lot about what was going on during the 60s, so his commentary goes over peoples heads
cr0nick 3 years ago
he was on a bunch of bennies during this interview......and it was the suppression of his words and thoughts that killed him......in many ways he is a martyr for anyone who dared say FUCK YOU
hozilla420 3 years ago
He was sued to death, actually. He had problems with drugs but he was destroyed by the state.
bragladish 3 years ago 2
lenny was into morphine. thats how he died from an overdose
lol33pp 3 years ago 2
lennys smashed!
whenpussysmells 3 years ago 2
He might be drugged, or drung...but he still has alot of clearity. Dig some of Lenny's great concerts, and 'bits"...that man had insight. indeed.
videolover61 3 years ago
Such raw honesty, insight, and candour...compared to the dreck we have today, a sad passing indeed...
tartanmafia 3 years ago 3
I don't think it's a case of intelligent but drunk, more like drunk because intelligent.
pietzsche 3 years ago 3
Talented man
runningnumbers 3 years ago 5
Lenny took the hit for very few people, I say that because few people were ever able to take Lenny's work into consideration, George Carlin took the "baton" from Lenny and reinforced the truth . . I say give Lenny a brake, whatever his status or health, the man was a comic . . people make mistakes..
espinojr 3 years ago 5
3 years before his death
The guy looks beaten up
One of the most intelligent motherfuckers in America's history...
brazilianshit 3 years ago 5
hes reeeeally drunk. listen to that slur lol
da12ius 3 years ago
Lenny was heavy into junk around the time.
ItsCabs 2 years ago 7
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DawnnaBee 2 years ago
he might have been, BUt I bet both of you have tried it once so, SHUT THE FUCK UP! who gives a FUCK!
1seriousfucker 3 years ago
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The guy's drugged up... He was very inteligent, just not enough to not abuse drugs!
pescador1 3 years ago
Could also just be very drunk. Although that might qualify.
hinneinisannidanni 3 years ago
Six negs. The Lenny-worshippers are out in full force.
7beers 2 years ago