23 May 2011

Now Bruce, one of the best, was the pioneer. Why? Well he took comedy to the next level. He said things no one else said. He was outrageous. And in the Sixties that WAS outrageous and he was arrested for it. A Jewish man couldn’t say: ‘People ask me, “Why did you kill Christ?” to which I’d answer ‘I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know…”’ but Bruce did. You couldn’t say ‘cocksucker’, but he did. Any comedian has influences and those they have influenced. Bruce only has the later.

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