Basic difference between Ricky Gervais and Lenny Bruce-Lenny could be filthy, but he was never nasty, and he never, ever targeted the powerless and the marginalized. Lenny Bruce never “punched down”-his jokes were all about the people who did harm, not those being harmed.
Written by Ken Burch
Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.