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Sailer: “Or maybe Lenny Bruce, despite all we’ve heard about his genius over the last half century, just isn’t funny?”

November 7, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

Yep.

Anyway, here’s Steve Sailer:

A running joke in director Bob Fosse’s autobiographical movie All That Jazz was what an ordeal it was to edit the Bruce monologues done by Dustin Hoffman in his biopic Lenny into something finally funny. And then the laughs are attributed by critics to the real life character’s natural hilariousness in contrast to the director’s contrived preciosity.

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