If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny BruceRead
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Laughter and comedy are genuine expressions that cannot be faked.
Lenny Bruce emphasizes that the authenticity of laughter in comedy sets it apart from other art forms. Unlike many artistic expressions, comedy relies on genuine emotion, as it is impossible to convincingly fake laughter without revealing the truth behind it.
Themes
LaughterComedyAuthenticityArtEmotion
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about the importance of humor in everyday life.
More from Lenny Bruce
All quotes →I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.
Lenny BruceRead
I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
Lenny BruceRead
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Lenny BruceRead
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny BruceRead
Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.
Lenny BruceRead
Similar quotes
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
Steven SpielbergRead
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.
David LynchRead
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
Dan RatherRead
I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.
Lionel RichieRead
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Eudora WeltyRead
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
Cat StevensRead