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Before George Carlin could talk about seven dirty words, someone had to get arrested for them.
Before Richard Pryor could be brutally, painfully honest on stage, someone had to prove you were allowed to be.
Before any comedian could walk out and say exactly what they thought about religion, race, politics, and sex…someone had to go to court for it.
That someone was Lenny Bruce.
He didn’t just push boundaries, he didn’t even know where the boundaries were because nobody had drawn them yet.
He just talked the truth about anything he wanted…And the government sent cops to watch him do it.
Here’s how Lenny Bruce paved the way to comedy as we know it today.
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