LENNY BRUCE
LARRY CHARLES SAYS: ''I first got to know his work reading transcripts of his routines in The Essential Lenny Bruce. It was sort of my Bible. I just memorized it after a while. He came out of a traditional, generic, Jewish-American 1950s comedy background — the milieu that produced Buddy Hackett and Jan Murray and all these very funny but very middle-of-the-road comedians. But somehow, through the combination of being aware of drugs and his interest in alternate arts like jazz, he developed this very radical point of view. He was in perpetual legal fights in the '60s for using words and ideas labeled obscene in a country that supposedly has free speech.''
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