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(man)
Ladies and gentlemen, Lenny Bruce.
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(cheering)
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Did you know that Eleanor Roosevelt
gave Lou Gehrig the clap?
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(laughter)
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''What'd he say? Jesus, does he
have to get that low for laughs?''
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''What's the point?
That's really bad taste.''
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The point... the point is
the suppression of words. Now, dig.
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Here it is, 1 964, and yet every doctor
l know tells me that a certain disease
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is on its way to becoming an epidemic
again, when everybody knows
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that one shot in the ass'd knock it out.
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And yet there it is, VD,
right up there with the top ten.
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Why? Because nobody talks about it.
Nobody even wants to say the word.
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lf the community chest
hits on you, do you say
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''Excuse me, how much of my dollar
is going for the clap?''
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(chuckles) l don't think you do.
What we have to do is talk about it.
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What we really need is to get
some of our national heroes
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to admit they've had it.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
gave Lou Gehrig the clap.
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She also gave it to
Chiang Kai-shek... (chuckles)
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And he gave it to J Edgar Hoover,
man... which is how it really spread.
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A boy gets the clap. Can he go to his
father? He can't relate to his father.
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He's lucky if he can go to a schmuck
who sweeps up the drugstore.
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- ''l gotta talk to you. ''
- ''What's the matter?''
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- ''l got the clap. ''
- ''Oh, Jesus, where'd you get that?''
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''Painting a car!
What's the difference? l got it. ''
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''What do you want?''
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''You work in a drugstore.
Give me some pills. ''
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- ''Oh, all right. Here. ''
- ''Dexedrine Spansules. ls this good?''
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''lt's all the same horseshit. Keeps
you awake so you know you got it. ''
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''The reason l want these pills is l got
a good job. l don't wanna get laid off. ''
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- ''Yeah? Where you working?''
- ''The meat-packing plant. ''
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l'll tell you what we really need.
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Maybe one day Jerry Lewis
would go on television,
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and instead of getting hung up
with muscular dystrophy,
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he'd have a clapathon!
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Forget it. lt'll never happen.
You know why?