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as asking the whole audience to take a lie- detector test. Lenny was intrigued by the implications of an item in 7he Realist, an actual statement by Adolf Eichmann that he would have been “not only a scoundrel, but a despicable pig” if he hadn't carried out Hitler's orders. Lenny wrote a piece for 7he Realist “L
legations against the club, and the current charge involved neither violence nor drunken behavior. The only charge pressed by the city prosecutor was Lenny Bruce's allegedly obscene performance. Nobody’ s prurience was aroused, but that made no difference. After all, there wasn’ t any law against blasphemy. “Ch
the crime did not carry the death penalty (Israel has abolished the death penalty except for the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people, under which Adolph Eichman was hanged), the case fit many of the criteria I generally consider in taking a case. But I decided not to take it. The reason was that it involved
cifixion, there’s no Christianity, so if you had won they’d be blaming the Jews for destroying Christianity.” Woody reminded me of the riff that got Lenny Bruce into so much trouble. Bruce quipped that if the Roman’s electrocuted rather than crucified their enemies, millions of Christians would be walking ar
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assner about running The Realist, hacking The New York Times Bestseller list, and that “true, extraordinary liar,” Donald Trump. of American comedy: Lenny Bruce, The Second City, and The Realist. From its first issue in the Spring of 1958, Paul Krassner’s iconoclastic “journal of freethought and satire” crea
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638 →lly high form of satire. He would make Trump a hero -- in the sense that he would take a different approach. ’m saying that because he did that about Adolf Eich- mann, the Nazi organizer. Lenny would say “He was doing his job!” He would just take an approach like that. Lenny would “appreciate” the defined tragedy.
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Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030189 →legations against the club, and the current charge involved neither violence nor drunken behavior. The only charge pressed by the city prosecutor was Lenny Bruce's allegedly obscene performance. Nobody's prurience was aroused, but that made no difference. After all, there wasn' t any law against blasphemy. "Chic
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Donald Trump
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Marc Rich
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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John F. Kennedy
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Julie K. Brown
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Paul Krassner
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Adolf Hitler
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Hillary Clinton
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Harvey Weinstein
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Joe Biden
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Barack Obama
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Vladimir Lenin
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Cynthia Nixon
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Michael Douglas
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United States
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Woody Allen
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