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onate blood because he had ingested acid. In the eighties, there are those who are afraid to get a blood transfusion because of AIDS. In the sixties, Lenny Bruce got arrested for saying “cocksucker” on stage. In the eighties, Meryl Streep got an Academy Award for saying it in Sophie's Choice. Now, almost the e
tivists by having celebrities come out of the pot-smoking closet. Already, veteran stand-up comic George Carlin—in an interview by 7he Daily Show’ s Jon Stewart following Carlin’ s HBO special—admitted that HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015299 he smokes a joint to help him “fine-tune” his material. “One hit is all | need
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
, where the clerk is explaining to a customer: “Say you have thirty-one burglars break into your house.” On the Monday following the tragic weekend, Jon Stewart was unable to find anything funny about it. Nor was Stephen Colbert, although he did present a montage of news clips with various explanations of Lou
--- PAGE BREAK --- punchline, pointing out that Bieber “wouldn't want to sing '| Wanna Be Your ‘Boyfriend’ to guys in prison.” On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart aimed his arrow at presidential candidate Donald Trump, the great Greekish god of Narcissism. Stewart shouts, “There are probably some non-rapists ca
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019095 →all get back together and kill the Jews.’ That’ s all | have to say about it.” The audience laughed and applauded, as they did fifty years ago when Lenny Bruce ended a riff on prejudice: “Randy, it won’ t matter any more even if you are colored and I’ m Jewish, and even if Fritz is Japanese, and Wong is Gree
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