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 down 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. thank god for lenny bruce. let s see, what s nice to follow a good heavy morose thing like that? a commercial. yeah. for adults with advanced non-small cell lung cancer,