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Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.
Dennis Miller
Needs
Edge
Top
Joan
Carrot
Telling
Carrot Top
Lauren
Dress
Bruce
Rivers
He
Wrong
Like
Get
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Her
Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.
Bernard Goldberg
Bruce
Himself
Fancy
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Bill
Reincarnation
When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'
Bob Newhart
Time
Myself
First
Sick
Considered
Out
Magazine
Bruce
Winters
Jonathan
Shelley
Comics
Were
Article
Did
May
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Started
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
David Dobkin
Love
Comedy
Side
Those
Favorites
Bruce
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Pryor
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Richard
Richard Pryor
Murphy
Filmmaker
My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.
David Steinberg
Bruce
Allen
Were
Influences
Woody
Woody Allen
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.
Dorothy Kilgallen
Man
World
Think
Moral
Bruce
Make
Audiences
Very
Improve
Trying
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway
People
Old
Rules
Bruce
New
Like
Always
Making
New Ones
Breaking
Interested
Mean
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Who
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.
Jimmy Carl Black
Lyric
Bruce
More
Know
Opinion
Than
Influence
In My Opinion
Anyone
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Satirical
Zappa
Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.
Joe Rogan
Myself
Owes
Everything
Bruce
Uncensored
He
Clearly
Like
Comic
Godfather
American
Any
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Originator
I don't have an act. I just talk. I'm just Lenny Bruce.
Lenny Bruce
Bruce
Talk
Just
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Act
When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
Richard Lewis
Jokes
Carlin
Once
Bruce
Winters
Klein
Well
Fairly
Doing
Hear
Lots
Greats
Pryor
Listened
May
Anybody
Want
Lenny
Younger
Lenny Bruce
Premises
Started
Albums
One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.
Robert Klein
Great
Genius
Stage
Too
Carlin
One Thing
One-Man
About
Bruce
Inspirations
Voices
Winters
He
Jonathan
Talents
Also
Him
Greatest
Tradition
George
Were
George Carlin
Pryor
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Richard
Richard Pryor
Really
Used
Show
Why
Thing
I want to write the reparations joke that makes people go, 'Yay! I'm so happy!' It's easy to go onstage and just make fun of all the 'isms' instead, but we can't all be Jeff Dunham. Although that pays very well... it pays way better to be Jeff Dunham than it ever paid to be George Carlin or Lenny Bruce.
W. Kamau Bell
Happy
People
Better
Joke
Carlin
Way
Easy
Bruce
Onstage
Write
Instead
Well
Make
Although
Makes
Reparations
Go
George
George Carlin
Very
Than
Just
Want
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Paid
Pays
Fun
Jeff
Ever
I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.
Robert Downey Sr.
Reading
Films
Say
Would
Critics
Some
Bruce
Reminded
New
York
New York
Loved
Them
Lenny
Lenny Bruce