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00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, Lenny Bruce. (Applaudissements)
00:10 How do you people really feel about doing it? (Rires)
00:14 Isn't that about the dirtiest thing we could do to each other? (Rires)
00:19 He was a comic, a cynic, a satirist, a criminal, a genius. (Applaudissements)
00:23 (Applaudissements)
00:35 He was called funny, filthy, honest, obscene, brilliant, sick.
00:39 Work clean Lenny, don't resort to using dirt.
00:42 Time magazine called him the sickest of them all.
00:45 Everybody's going to be warned about you. You're finished. Finished in show business.
00:50 Oh no, no, no, not that, not that.
00:54 The New York Post called him a kind of prophet.
00:57 No man, I'm just a comic.
00:58 You certainly have a great deal of social impact. (Rires)
01:02 Ed Sullivan described him as dynamic and original.
01:06 We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and $500 a night hawker.
01:13 Hot honey hollow, let's hear it everybody. (Applaudissements)
01:17 Dorothy Kilgallen said he was a brilliant moral man.
01:21 Don't you want to tell me about the Chinese chick in the club?
01:24 You didn't know I knew that did you?
01:27 I don't want to play this stupid game.
01:31 Playboy called him the most controversial comic of our generation.
01:35 I am totally corrupt, I mean really.
01:38 The Manhattan district attorney said his act was an anthology of filth.
01:42 Wow, have you ever seen so much blue in all your life?
01:47 I seem to be under a little pressure here tonight to cool my act.
01:50 He was arrested numerous times for obscenity.
01:53 Man, what is that?
01:55 Makes you think you've got the right to say a word like that in a public place.
01:59 I didn't do it, I just said it.
02:02 I'm ready to find you guilty right now.
02:05 Ladies and gentlemen, this man's under arrest.
02:07 What, again? Oh what the f...
02:09 Mr. Bruce, you are making this very difficult.
02:12 The point I'm trying to make is that we all live in a very hypocritical society.
02:15 Mr. Bruce, you leave me no alternative but to find you in contempt of this court.
02:19 Please, don't take away my words.
02:22 Newsweek described his cause of death as an overdose of police.
02:26 His obituary in Time magazine said he viewed life as a four-letter word.
02:32 Dustin Hoffman, Lenny, a Bob Fosse film.
02:38 [Musique]