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your name.

Miller.

Miller, my name

is Mr. Anderson.

Anderson.

Glad to know you.

Pleasure indeed, sir.

Mm-hmm.

Pleasure indeed.

[Ice clinking in glass]

[Audience laughs]

You know that Joe Louis

was a hell of a fighter.

[Audience laughs]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You can say that again.

Joe Louis was

a hell of a fighter.

Credit to your race.

Don't forget it,

you son-of-gun.

Well, thank you

very much.

That's perfectly

all right.

Uh, here's

to bojangles.

[Glasses chink]

Yeah, here's

to bojangles.

[Audience laughs]

What the hell's

that guy?

You know that guy

on the cream of wheat box?

[Audience laughs]

Anything said in anger,

forget it.

There's no way

you can justify

it comedically.

You can't do it.

So Lenny Bruce could say

"cocksucker" or "n*gger"

on stage.

In a comedy context people

could see he's not angry

at a specific person

or anything in general.

He's working something.

So it makes them pause

and absorb it

in a different way.

Are there any n*ggers

here tonight?

What did he say?

Are there any n*ggers

here tonight?

Jesus Christ, he had to get

that low for laughs?

[Sighs]

Have I ever talked about

the shvartzes of...

Or spoke about

the moulignons,

or placated some southerner

by absence of...

And rants and raves about

n*gger, n*gger, n*gger?

Are there any n*ggers?

I know the one n*gger

that works here,

i see him back there.

Oh, there's two

n*gger customers and...

Ah, but between

those three n*ggers,

there's one kike.

[Whistles]

Thank God

for the kike.

[Audience laughs]

Uh, two kikes.

That's two kikes

and three n*ggers

and one spic.

One spic. Two-three spics,

one Mick, one Mick, one spic,

one hick, fic, funky,

spunky boogie.

And there's another kike.

Three kikes, three kikes,

one Guinea, one greaseball,

three greaseballs, two guineas,

two guineas, one hunky, funky,

lace-curtain Irish Mick.

That Mick, spic, funky,

hunky boogie.

Five more n*ggers,

five more n*ggers,

i pass for six n*ggers and

eight micks and four spics.

[Audience laughs]

He took these racist ideas,

the bigotry, homophobia,

he took it onstage,

broke it down,

and...Tried to have some

political and philosophical

approach.

I never liked

that routine.

And never really

quite agreed with it.

To become desensitized

is to be overthrown.

It is to be

beaten down.

And you've been

trampled upon.

I believe he would take

a lot of heat

for the racial remarks,

just because the world's

a lot smaller

because of all this media.

You know, people can tape you

on their cell phones now.

Now, if you do something

offensive and it's not funny,

then that's where pain

and trouble starts.

But then again,

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