Lenny Page #8

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"But don't

come in me. Don't come in me. "

"Don't come in me mimme mimme,

don't come in me mimme mimme,

don't come in me. "

"I can't come. Don't ask me!"

"You don't love me,

that's why you can't come. "

"I love ya, I just can't come, that's my

hang-up. I can't come when I'm loaded. "

- "Cos you don't love me. "

- "What is the matter?"

"What has that got to do with loving

you? I just can't come, that's all. "

Now, if anyone in this room,

or the world,

finds those two words

obscene, indecent, immoral,

you probably can't come.

Mr Bruce, you are smiling.

This is not for your entertainment.

I don't know if what I've heard

is legally obscene...

- Your Honour, do you believe in God?

- Bailiff?

A God that made your body.

If you believe there is a God

that made your body,

then why do you keep telling children

to cover up, that the body is dirty?

God, what a bore.

If the body is dirty, then the fault

lies with the manufacturer.

That means you gotta schlep

God into court with me.

The defendant is charged

with violating section 311.6

of the California penal code

which provides:

"Any person who knowingly

speaks any obscene song, ballad

or other words in a public place

is guilty of a misdemeanour".

Now, "obscene" means

to the average person,

applying contemporary

standards of the community.

The dominant appeal of the matter

being to arouse a prurient interest,

which is a morbid or shameful interest

in nudity or sex or excretion,

which goes beyond the limits

of such matters.

Uh-oh.

.. redeeming social importance.

Now, sex and obscenity

are not synonymous.

To make sex obscene,

it is necessary that the portrayal of it

must be done in such a way

that its dominant tendency

is to corrupt the average adult,

by creating a clear and present danger

of antisocial behaviour.

In other words,

some cat'll see my show, get horny,

run off to a museum,

and jerk off a dinosaur!

"We, the jury, find

the defendant not guilty

of violation of Section 311.6 of the

penal code of the state of California,

to wit, 'speaking or singing obscene

words or ballads in a public place'."

You'd mentioned you'd get

six months off that jail sentence.

Did that happen?

No, I got in some trouble,

so I had to serve my full time.

What kind of trouble?

- Well, I just did something crazy.

- You don't want to tell me about it?

No.

All right. Anyway, you did get out.

Yeah. They give you a lot

of speeches about rehabilitation,

they lay a little bread on you,

they try to help you, and then...

- Good luck, dear.

- Oh. Thank you.

.. they drop you on the sidewalk.

It had nothing to do with justice.

That lady I wrote you about?

The one with the hat

and the twitchy mouth?

Right. When we got in the jury room,

and she started bitchin', "He's guilty. "

Then all of a sudden, "He's not guilty. "

- Well, how come?

- She was a lush.

And she had to get out to get a drink?

- Right. So I was saved by Gallo Wine.

- Who cares, man? You beat it.

I know, but I wanted to win it

on the First Amendment.

I love you.

Wow, was I happy. I think he was too.

He was making a lot of bread.

After the San Francisco trial

and all that publicity,

everybody wanted to see him.

There were the semi-hip, Playboy-type

people who thought it was in to dig him.

And then there were the people

who really loved Lenny.

You really are the truth.

Oh!

She's a nut...

But she's right.

He started coming on like a rabbi.

I used to kid him about it.

I'd call him "the Meshugana Messiah".

But I'm not anti-Christ or anti-religion,

I just think it's encouraging that people

are leaving the church

and going back to God.

He was putting

everybody down. The Pope.

I mean, jeez, he even went after Kennedy.

I suppose people came in

to see if he might get arrested.

Oh, absolutely.

Right... right on. Right on.

You were with him when he was

arrested in Los Angeles and Chicago?

What's the matter?

Well, um, it's like that lady alcoholic

in I'll Cry Tomorrow.

- Lillian Roth?

- No, Susan Hayward.

See, junkies think like...

"I'll kick tomorrow. "

And it was the same thing with me.

But, uh, tomorrow just...

Follow the dots

down the yellow brick road.

Goddammit! He was just fine until

you had to be schlepped into it again.

OK, I'll, uh, kill myself.

Lenny was deep into drugs

himself, though, wasn't he?

You're really cute, aren't you?

You want me to say it.

Monogram Pictures presents

Rotten Together, starring

Faye Wray and King Kong.

You think it's funny?

King Kong's mother.

You two think you're so damn funny...

- Well?

- It's a waste of time.

The mercenary old b*tch won't budge!

- She has to.

- Yeah, well, you tell her.

Beth, he's in no condition to go on.

You can't let him go on.

Look at this. It's five bucks a head.

You know what that would cost me?

If he gets busted,

it'll cost you your liquor licence.

I'll take my chances.

Lenny, you've got to be a good boy

and get up and get on your feet.

Lenny, you can't get up.

Come on, Lenny, you gotta get up.

I know you can do it, man.

- They're all out there waiting for ya...

- I'm no junkie.

You can't disappoint the public.

There you go, man.

That's it.

I'm proud of you.

Uh-oh. There's the city heat.

There's the county heat.

There's the state heat. And I even think

I see two cats from Interpol, man.

And I know I saw four Mounties, man!

Ladies and gentlemen,

Lenny Bruce.

Super Jew!

The Ecumenical Council has given

the Pope permission to become a nun.

But only on Fridays.

Wait. What's that?

King Kong is ready now?

Oh, he's almost ready.

Oh, we're gonna have King

for the second show.

Look, I gotta warn you photographers

not to take any flashbulbs.

Cool it with the flashbulbs, man,

because otherwise King gets

a little shitty, you know.

So just give him a...

air... a building to play with

or an airplane to squeeze and... Yeah.

Where the f*** was I?

It's really wild, man, because

a judge can get away with that.

He just sits up there, man,

just junked out of his head, man,

and he says

"I'll take it under advisement. "

Where was I, now?

Let me see, where was I?

Oh, yeah. I know... Yeah. I know what

I want to do. I know what I want to do.

You're all wondering

why I'm wearing this raincoat.

The reason I'm wearing this

raincoat is, as you all know...

I've been busted a few times

for obscenity,

and the last time I was busted

was in Los Angeles,

and they didn't give me time to get my

coat. So, since Chicago is a cold city,

if they come, I'm ready.

And the heat... the heat is here

tonight. The heat is here.

Oh, are there any attorneys here tonight?

Where? You are? Are you

an attorney, man? Really?

Here. Now you guys got it all, man. There.

That's it, man.

Uh...

I... I... No... I want to show you something.

Oh, I know what I want to show you.

You wanna see...

you wanna see a picture

of a really beautiful pink-nippled lady?

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