You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.
Lenny BruceIt's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.
Lenny BruceYou 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.
Lenny Bruce...Catholicism is like Howard Johnson, and what they have are these franchises and they give all these people different franchises in the different countries but they have one government, and when you buy the Howard Johnson franchise you can apply it to the geography - whatever's cool for that area - and then you, you know, pay the bread to the main office.
Lenny Bruce