A Quote by Lenny Bruce

I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.

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Lenny Bruce
American - Comedian
October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966

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

My influences as a comedian and filmmaker are Albert Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Andy Kaufman and John Cassevettes.

Sam Seder

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.

Billy Connolly

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

Billy Connolly

You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.

P. J. O'Rourke

Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police

Phil Spector

My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.

David Steinberg

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

Phil Ochs

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

Bernard Goldberg

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

Sheldon Harnick

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

But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way.

Freddie Prinze

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

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

Robert Downey Sr.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny [Bruce], certainly not in terms of social commentary.