Courtesy Dorian Cope, who blogged this today:

3rd August 1966 – the Death of Lenny Bruce

“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.’” – Lenny Bruce

Genius comic and social critic/agitator Lenny Bruce died, ignominiously, forty-three years ago today on 3rd August 1966.

During our “wilderness years” cocooned in an all-black room in Tamworth, Julian and I watched Lenny’s “Thank You Mask Man” over and over and over and over again …