Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
Lenny BruceI won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".
Lenny BruceIf you're going to stop masturbating, you can't taper off. You've got to quit, cold jerky!
Lenny BruceEvery 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.
Lenny Bruce