This is quite some tape here…sociologically too…
Lenny was a genius of course…
If you watch all the parts, Jonathan Winters even gets a shout out.
He’s a little shaky in the beginning, then starts to roll baby…and we learn some things about a real comedian’s motivations…
And then a little later: Carnegie Hall:
Of course, no comic today could get near the genius of Lenny Bruce. George Carlin was the last of them. Bill Hicks had some flashes of brilliance, but Lenny Bruce was ground down to a pulp and Carlin lived so long – and became so rightfully and righteously bitter – his material in the end amounted to stating brutal facts and telling the audience how stupid and ignorant they were. And they laughed and laughed…
And so it goes…
21st Century Theater 