To be fair, this is probably just the nature of serious comedy — laughing at pain — in that, in the end, the pain almost always wins. Lenny Bruce was reduced to shouting the transcripts of his trials at the audience.

Gifted and subtle as a young man, and then picking up the seven pound sledgehammer in later life. Somehow, the subtlety evaporated and we wound up with a bitter parody of what he had been.

It’s just my thing. When you directly bring in politics, art ceases to exist, and it becomes propaganda. I get enough of that crap daily, and I don’t need to look to once great entertainers for more of that shit.