Lenny Page #10

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just to talk to you without all

the legal double-talking bullshit.

You are making this very difficult for me.

Sorry, but attorneys keep telling me

"Don't worry, it's just the Lower Court,

they're all a**holes. "

"We'll win in a higher court. "

I shouldn't lose here.

I'm not doing anything wrong.

Would you please sit down?

- I do have the right to say things.

- I am running out of patience!

If you'd just let me do my act

for the court, I'll take my chances.

If after you hear me,

if you don't think it's funny,

if you think it has no redeeming

social value, if it strikes you as dirty...

I cannot allow this to continue!

Your Honour... I so want your respect.

I know you're a good person

and this legal system

is the best in the world,

but you... you can't seem to hear me!

- Sit down!

- When I'm talking about tits and ass,

I'm not up there to shock

the audience by repeating

"tits and ass, ass and tits,

tits and ass!"

The point is that we all live

in a hypocritical society!

You leave me no alternative but

to find you in contempt of this court!

OK.

Then sentence me. I have no money left.

Might I be sentenced now?

I can't afford to be on trial.

The police took away my cabaret card.

I can't work any more.

- Please, sentence me.

- No, I will not sentence you today.

I order you, when you appear before me

again, to appear with suitable counsel.

And I am further ordering psychiatric

evaluation by the psychiatric clinic.

- December 16th. Bail continued.

- You're trying to stop the information!

Bailiff, will you remove

this man from the courtroom?

Court adjourned!

.. the information

keeps the country strong!

You need the deviate! Don't shut him up!

You need that madman to stand up,

tell you when you're blowing it!

The harder you come down on him,

the more you need him!

Please! Don't take away my words!

They're just words!

I'm not hurting anybody!

He was found guilty in New York

and sentenced to four months, right?

Yes.

- He was frightened of being confined?

- Yes.

Among his belongings,

they found a letter from the bank,

that said he had lost the house.

Do you suppose those things and that

letter had anything to do with his death?

I don't know what you mean.

See you Saturday.

Get some sleep and do something

about that weight.

Yeah, you're right.

I'm gonna go on a diet. Bye-bye.

Bye, man.

I know where you're trying

to take this, and it's just not so.

He'd never do a thing like that.

Anyway...

Anyway, why was he

trying to lose weight?

I loved him. I really loved him.

I'm very happy that his records

are starting to sell again.

He was nutty, you know?

He did a lot of crazy things.

And we were always doing bits

to crack each other up.

Doesn't it strike you as rather ironic that

the things that Lenny was arrested for

would be considered

fairly harmless today?

Well, like, um,

I don't really know about that.

I mean...

He was just so damn funny.

You know I'm negotiating

for a film based on his life?

I got all the rights tied up.

Oh, listen, I'm afraid

that's all the time I have.

I have to get out to the Valley,

catch a comic.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

- Thank you very much.

- It was a pleasure.

Into the shithouse for good

this time. Forget it. Oh, man. Forget it.

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