
Lenny Bruce Is Not Afraid (1962)
This Day
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The Obscenity Question
iitalyandan: Any time that you step into the religious arena, i feel like youre really setting yourself up for failure. Insulting someone's religion wasn't a crime, but obscenities still were. And so in speaking of lake tell truth to power, or punching up, what greater example of punching up and your sort of moral commitment to it than willingly breaking this law? He says he thinks ifhe had just stuck the rout of big business, it probably wouldn't have attracted so much scorn.
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