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3. Lenny Bruce's responses to accusations that Jews killed Christ:
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 04:07 PM
Jul 2020

1. "All right, I'll clear the air once and for all, and confess," joked Bruce. "Yes, we did it. I did it, my family. I found a note in my basement. It said: 'We killed him. Signed, Morty."'

2. Lenny Bruce did not hesitate to laugh at gentiles, at Christians, at Judaism and the relations between the two faiths. In the puritan 1950’s, when the threat of Senator Joe McCarthy was everywhere in show business, most Jews just wished to integrate and not make a fuss. But not Lenny Bruce. He poked a finger right in the eye of Christian American society, and kept it down. “We Jews killed Christ and if he comes back, we’ll kill him again”, he provoked a packed club once.

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