The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears. By presenting Bruce's landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show, his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff, Bruce's genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted "lawbreaker".
John Parson
Writer
Fred Baker
Director, Writer
Barbara Baker
Writer
Fred Baker
Narrator (voice)
Lenny Bruce
Self (archive footage)
Steve Allen
Self / DJ (archive footage)
Martin Garbus
Self (archive footage)
William Glenesk
Self (archive footage)
Nat Hentoff
Self (archive footage)
Frank Hogan
Self (archive footage)
Paul Krassner
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm Muggeridge
Self (archive footage)
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