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in things that are absolutely
not funny
by most traditional standards,
you are mining material
thats kind of fresh.
What seems to be the problem?
Ive contracted AIDS.
How did you get that?
From an African prostitute.
Do you mind if I interject
for a second? Sorry.
I just think its
getting quite heavy,
this sketch, and I just
wonder if perhaps,
just for the sake of comedy,
from an African
prostitute, just.
Knock knock.
Hi, what seems to
be the problem?
As I said before, Ive
got full-blown AIDS.
Right.
You want to know how I got it?
Sure.
From a well-known
homosexual actor.
Wow.
Again, though, I just
think cancer, though,
and AIDS, and famine,
are just not really
subjects for comedy.
Well, why does he get
away with it then?
We dont know.
Thats to me the
definition of true taboo,
when there are
consequences as a result.
then go back to doing
what they were doing
thats not really taboo.
Thats socially acceptable...
controversial,
provocative perhaps,
but socially acceptable.
Back in the slave days,
Im six feet tall and Im
strong, Colin, STRONG!
I mean, look at me,
Im a mandingo!
with the best brother
on the plantation.
And every nine months Id be in
the corner having a superbaby.
Every nine months!
Every nine months Id
just be in the corner
just popping them out.
Just:
Shaq!... Kobe!...Its okay to say
these things on TV,
- LeBron!
Theyre letting you say it.
If they really felt
it was dangerous,
if they really
felt it was taboo,
then you wouldnt
be able to say it.
The following piece
contains gratuitous use of
the N word.
And by N word,
I mean
N*gger.
Excuse me, we are looking
for Clayton Bigsby.
Look no further,
fella, you found him.
How could this have happened?
A black white
supremacist.
He was the only Negro
wed ever had around here,
so we figured wed
make it easier
by just telling
him he was white.
N*ggers, Jews, homosexuals,
Mexicans, Arabs,
and all kinds of
different Chinks stink!
been talking about,
all the things that
Ive worked on,
were not truly transgressing.
As long as
the powers that
be let us do it,
it means we havent
transgressed.
Im glad you guys laughed at
that, that does not always work.
I mean, nothing works
100% of the time, right?
Except Mexicans, Ive
noticed
AUDIENCE BOOS:
Thats the one? Boo!
Right, Boo, Mexicans!
I hear you, you guys are
preaching to the choir.
AUDIENCE LAUGHS:
When they throw me in
jail for making Borat,
then you know weve dealt
with a taboo subject.
Here he is, a very
shocking comedian,
the most shocking
comedian of our time,
a young man who is
skyrocketing to fame:
Lenny Bruce!
By the way, are there any
n*ggers here tonight?
What did he say?
Are there any n*ggers
here tonight?
What, is he so desperate
for shock value?
Ah, I think I see one
n*gger couple back there
between those two n*ggers
and three kikes.
You have two
spics, one mick
three kikes, and one spunky,
funky honky.
The point
on television
every day and said,
the n*ggers in my cabinet.
And every day you heard,
N*gger, n*gger, n*gger,
n*gger, n*gger,
n*gger would lose its impact
any four-year old n*gger cry
when he came home from school.
I couldnt get over what it was
You were hearing
ideas that you knew
were accurate.
talked about gay people
when no one was doing it.
And in Chicago, Mayor Daley
very Catholic city
they threw him off the stage,
put him in jail.
This is the defendant
Lenny Bruce
charged in two separate counts,
giving an indecent performance
all performances were
obscene, indecent,
immoral and impure.
In the
latter two performances,
words such as ass,
balls, cocksucker, c*nt,
f***, motherf***er, piss,
screw, sh*t, and tits
were used about one hundred
times in utter obscenity.
Sometimes its important
to be ahead of society.
Just because its uncomfortable
doesnt mean that
its the wrong thing.
Sometimes it means its
exactly the right thing.
where
the bar is
really low.
And in a strange way, I
think its a good thing.
Lets see, did we look
at Ricky Gervais?
of the History Channel
just back and forth,
like six hour stints of History
Channel, Discovery Channel,
back and forth. Ask me anything
about sharks and Nazis.
AUDIENCE LAUGHS:
The sharks an amazing creature.
It can taste and smell
of blood and sweat,
one part in a billion,
from a mile away.
Frank like that
AUDIENCE LAUGHS:
I actually dont know
how this has happened,
but in the last five
years, seven years,
all of a
sudden,
its been open season
on Anne Frank.
She had time to write a
novel, for Christs sake.
It ends a bit abruptly,
and no sequel lazy.
CRUNCHING OF A CRISP
Theres this book,
Hope:
A Tragedy aboutAnne Frank.
She survived, shes pissed
off, she wrote this diary
that sold 32 million copies,
she didnt get a nickel,
and here she is:
sheswriting a novel and
shes not leaving
this guys attic
until shes done with the novel.
Took a while writing the scene
where he first meets Anne Frank.
How dare you say youre
Anne Frank, thats an insult
to the deaths of whoever,
of millions of people,
I had relatives who died there,
and she says,
First of all I, I didnt
die in Auschwitz, jackass,
I was in
Bergen-Belsen,
and by the way,
about all those family
members you lost?
and she pulls up her sleeve
and shows her numbers.
And the line was, Blow
me said Anne Frank.
I remember I stopped writing and
I immediately called
my wife and I said,
I think I know what
this book is about.
And then I immediately
called my shrink.
The outrage that some people had
because he made Anne Frank
this crusty old lady!
was all about my
relationship with God,
and I got a certain
amount of sh*t for it.
you can sh*t on God before
you can sh*t on Anne Frank.
Shh! Mr. Kitty you
have to be quiet
or else theyre gonna find you.
We have greed and guilt
and wars and genocides and
theres nothing we
can do about it.
Ive read Gods answers,
Ive read Spinozas
answerstheres no answer.
Theyre both dead.CHUCKLES
And so the only way
I can deal with
the reality of existence
is to laugh at it.
MUSIC:
HATCH CLOSING:
bring up the Holocaust.
For you I lived through Hitler,
you cant make the bed?
LAUGHTER:
I said, Ma, you ran
through the forest
after finding out
your whole family
got killed in gas chambers
Ma, how did you do it?
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