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Lenny Bruce:
l am of Semitic background. l'm Jewish. Now, a Jew, dictionary-style, is one who is descended from one of the ancient tribes of Judea or one who is regarded to have descended from that tribe. But, you and l know what a Jew really is: one who killed our Lord! Now, l don't know if it got much press coverage here on the West Coast, because that all happened a couple a thousand years ago. And although there should be a statute of limitations for the crime, we're still paying the dues. Why do you keep busting our balls for this crime? ''Why? Because you skirt the issue. You blame it on Roman soldiers.'' All right, l'm gonna clear the air once and for all, and confess. We did it. My family, l did it. We found a note in the basement, it said: ''We killed him'', signed Morty. There's a good thing we nailed him when we did, because if we had done it within the 50 last years, we'd have to contend with generations of parochial schoolkids running around with little electric chairs hanging around their necks
l am of Semitic background. l'm Jewish. Now, a Jew, dictionary-style, is one who is descended from one of the ancient tribes of Judea or one who is regarded to have descended from that tribe. But, you and l know what a Jew really is: one who killed our Lord! Now, l don't know if it got much press coverage here on the West Coast, because that all happened a couple a thousand years ago. And although there should be a statute of limitations for the crime, we're still paying the dues. Why do you keep busting our balls for this crime? ''Why? Because you skirt the issue. You blame it on Roman soldiers.'' All right, l'm gonna clear the air once and for all, and confess. We did it. My family, l did it. We found a note in the basement, it said: ''We killed him'', signed Morty. There's a good thing we nailed him when we did, because if we had done it within the 50 last years, we'd have to contend with generations of parochial schoolkids running around with little electric chairs hanging around their necks
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I am of Semitic background
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I'm Jewish
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A Jew dictionary style
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is one descended from an ancient tribe of Judea
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or one regarded to have descended from that tribe
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But we know what a Jew really is
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One who killed our Lord
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I don't know if that got press coverage here on the west coast
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because that happened thousands of years ago
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There should be a statute of limitations
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but we're still paying the dues
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Why do you keep busting our balls
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Why Jew Because you blame it on Roman soldiers
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I'll clear the air and confess
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My family did it
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We found a note in the basement that said
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We killed him Signed Morty
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It's a good thing that we nailed him when we did
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If we had done it within the last 50 years
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we'd have faced generations of parochial school kids
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wearing little electric chairs around their necks
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Movie Summary
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.
