Looking for Lenny Page #8

from the laugh factory

and the improv.

You going to let him perform

here at the comedy store?"

She goes, "of course."

I said, "why?"

She goes,

"'cause it's freedom of speech,

he can say

what he wants."

I thought, all right,

well, I can understand that,

you know,

because technically, it is.

On the other hand,

it's, you know,

it's a sensitive word

and you're going to offend

a lot of people.

It was such a big deal

over nothing, really.

And I'm not saying,

people go, "what if you

were black?"

You know, first of all,

if someone wasn't there

with their cell phone

to tape it,

nobody would

have talked about it.

At the improv all of a sudden

he started yelling

about the Jews.

Well, when was that?

That was two weeks before,

oh, really?

But nobody talked

about that

no.

Because Jews, who cares

about Jews?

Exactly.

You just answered

your own question.

No one had a cell phone

in there.

I mean that's

the only thing,

no one shot it.

What's he doing now?

But there was

a talmudic scholar.

There was, because right

now someone's writing it

on parchment.

[Laughs]

Deer hides.

That's great, we'll roll it up

and dance around it.

Richard pryor, at the time

he used the n-word.

I asked him very openly,

I said, "Richard, why do you use

the n-word so much?"

He said, "Jamie,

the reason I'm saying it,

"I'm trying to take

the poison out of it.

I don't want people

to get to hurt."

But Michael Richards

was actually hurting people,

that's a different thing.

See, again, the difference

between Lenny Bruce

and let's say

a Michael Richards...

Michael Richards wasn't trying

to desensitize

the word "n*gger."

He was calling

a black dude a n*gger.

A Jewish person would never,

ever use that word.

We say "shvartze."

It's a whole other slur.

[Rimshot]

[Bruce]

The reason I

got busted, arrested,

i picked on

the wrong God.

If I would've picked

on the God

whose replica is in

the whoopee cushion store,

the tiki God,

the Hawaiian God,

those idiots,

their dumb God,

i would have been cool.

If I would have picked

on the God

whose belly is

slashed as a bank,

the Chinese, those idiots,

their yellow God.

But I picked on

the Western God,

the cute God,

the "in" God,

the Kennedy God.

And that's where

I screwed up.

The thought and time

that was put in

to stopping my father

from talking

was exemplary.

Happened in L.A.,

it happened in San Francisco,

it happened in New York.

And it was obviously

a concerted effort

to close him down.

Once they really started

going for him,

and they're--you know,

he'd be introducing the police

in the back of the room

at every show.

It was a first amendment issue.

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