“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.”
Lenny Bruce“I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up”
Lenny Bruce“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.”
Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce: his original unexpurgated satirical routines“In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.”
Lenny Bruce“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.”
Lenny Bruce“Communism is like one big phone company.”
Lenny Bruce“When you're eight years old nothing is your business.”
Lenny Bruce“Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.”
Lenny Bruce“There are never enough I Love You's.”
Lenny Bruce“All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
Lenny Bruce“The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”
Lenny Bruce