"There are no dirty words, only dirty minds." - Lenny Bruce
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble is here profiled by a close friend who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears.
With Lenny Bruce, Steve Allen, Paul Krassner, Mort Sahl, Kenneth Tynan, Nat Hentoff & Malcom Muggeridge.
"A skillfully researched documentary about the late pop hero." - Los Angeles Times
"Fred Baker's film is honest enough to include Lenny at his most offbeat." - Richard Corliss, Village Voice
"Evidence of what made Bruce such a singular phenomena on stage and what turned him into a counterculture hero." - TV Guide Online
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