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(clears throat)
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Oh, l would say, uh...
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Let's see, he was busted
at least nine or ten times.
:00:53
Twice for possession of narcotics,
and three, four times for obscenity.
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Um...
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(man)
Ladies and gentlemen, Lenny Bruce.
:01:03
(cheering)
:01:09
Did you know that Eleanor Roosevelt
gave Lou Gehrig the clap?
:01:13
(laughter)
:01:14
''What'd he say? Jesus, does he
have to get that low for laughs?''
:01:18
''What's the point?
That's really bad taste.''
:01:21
The point... the point is
the suppression of words. Now, dig.
:01:27
Here it is, 1 964, and yet every doctor
l know tells me that a certain disease
:01:31
is on its way to becoming an epidemic
again, when everybody knows
:01:35
that one shot in the ass'd knock it out.
:01:37
And yet there it is, VD,
right up there with the top ten.
:01:41
Why? Because nobody talks about it.
Nobody even wants to say the word.
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lf the community chest
hits on you, do you say
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''Excuse me, how much of my dollar
is going for the clap?''
:01:51
(chuckles) l don't think you do.
What we have to do is talk about it.
:01:56
What we really need is to get
some of our national heroes
:01:59
to admit they've had it.