Lenny

:00:45

(clears throat)

:00:47

Oh, l would say, uh...

:00:50

Let's see, he was busted
at least nine or ten times.

:00:53

Twice for possession of narcotics,
and three, four times for obscenity.

:00:59

Um...

:01:00

(man)
Ladies and gentlemen, Lenny Bruce.

:01:03

(cheering)

:01:09

Did you know that Eleanor Roosevelt
gave Lou Gehrig the clap?

:01:13

(laughter)

:01:14

''What'd he say? Jesus, does he
have to get that low for laughs?''

:01:18

''What's the point?
That's really bad taste.''

:01:21

The point... the point is
the suppression of words. Now, dig.

:01:27

Here it is, 1 964, and yet every doctor
l know tells me that a certain disease

:01:31

is on its way to becoming an epidemic
again, when everybody knows

:01:35

that one shot in the ass'd knock it out.

:01:37

And yet there it is, VD,
right up there with the top ten.

:01:41

Why? Because nobody talks about it.
Nobody even wants to say the word.

:01:46

lf the community chest
hits on you, do you say

:01:48

''Excuse me, how much of my dollar
is going for the clap?''

:01:51

(chuckles) l don't think you do.
What we have to do is talk about it.

:01:56

What we really need is to get
some of our national heroes

:01:59

to admit they've had it.