Joe Rogan Quotes

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

I don't have an act. I just talk. I'm just Lenny Bruce.

If you listen to Howard Stern, go back and listen to Lenny Bruce, so you can hear what real talent is.

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom of speech, we who do should push it as far as we need to.

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.

But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way.

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.