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>> the vaudeville style and burlesque tradition came together at the friars club. >> it's good when an artist can express themselves in a way that may not be acceptable outside that temple of free speech. people say there's a time and place for that kind of comedy, that's the time and place, the roast. >> i'll remember this evening probably as long as it takes me to get to my car. nice. good evening, sir. good evening. glengarry chamberlin, esquire. welcome.

Pauper. we had no money. all the money and everything went on lawyers. the way that he was beaten down and beaten down and beaten down, coupled with his drug use is what killed him. >> lenny really took the blows. he was the martyr, cleared the way for the new openness which was happening in all sorts of media in the '60s, but took guys like lenny bruce to push the boundaries and go to jail for it. >> there's not one piece of comedy being done today that didn't come out of something lenny bruce said, really. he was like the big bang. >> did he take the hit for all of us? yeah i imagine he did....

Girls. different styles of comedy, different people performing within them. >> i see you lying there, my anger is aroused. i pull out my dirk. >> now we're getting to the point. >> because the primary attraction was scantily clad ladies, in order to compete for attention a comedian had to do something to upstage a naked woman, so, they would do this sort of dirtyish comedy. >> a magician. >> what does she do? >> one trick that's amazing, mystifying. takes a rubber ball, bounces it up and down and stands with her legs like this. when the little ball bounces up and down, it disappears. >> what a...

Took it out. ought to see the look on her [ bleep ] face. >> the guy is a chauvinistic moron. i wouldn't hang out with him if he meant those things, even as die, because would be saying he's deranged. but as comedian it's funny and doesn't hurt anybody. >> to be outrageous and bad boy and breaking the rules is extremely lucrative and pandering. there's a lot of comedy done under the guise of being the edge which it isn't because it's connecting with the basest audience. >> i found through great effort one remark of his i could say on the air. he describes his sexual technique as i quote, so i ...

Heartbroken man, we hold a lot of stuff in because we're civilized people trying to do the right thing but there's a lot that goes on emotionally we can't express and have that monster put it out like that, great, it's relief valve. >> sam didn't care if the audience hated him and would bait them. challenge them to leave if they didn't like that. and when you don't care, that's frequently when you get the best results. >> very seldom someone comes along who is unusually different and creative and presents something that's unusual. right. and money from last week? >> sam kinison took comedy to ...