Transcripts for CNN The History of Comedy 20240604 01:15:00

CNN The History of Comedy June 4, 2024 01:15:00

i discuss religions, many points of view. i am interested. i am searching for an answer, as billy graham is. kitty: at this time, priests and people of the cloth, you bowed to them, and people would get very angry because now they're talking about their religion, their belief system. you play with somebody's belief system and their religion, now you got a problem. and they got the powers-that-be crazy. "shut him up. you've gotta silence him." klein: someone saw lenny bruce in a club in chicago, and he was making jokes about the pope or something, and two detectives went up onstage because of that remark and handcuffed him in front of the audience and took him away. you can't even imagine that today. lenny: they found it was obscene enough to put me in a jail cell for the last 24 hours, which -- and the thing i wished they would do is tell me what words were obscene. in court, the cop is reciting

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