Lenny with Colin Quinn

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Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Sure, Bob Fosse’s “Lenny” has beautiful cinematography, but does it effectively communicate that Lenny Bruce was funny? Is the narrative of stand-ups as “tortured truth tellers” overdone?
We have THOUGHTS! Comedian and “stand-up historian” Colin Quinn joins us to talk about the legacy of Lenny Bruce, and what Fosse gets right (the milieu of the clubs, Valerie Perrine’s wonderful performance as Honey Bruce), and what he gets wrong (the actual humor). Plus - we entertain the idea of a miniseries structured not around a specific filmmaker, but a series of late-70s, early-80s films where the main auteur is…cocaine.

Editor’s Note: This episode includes Zoom audio.

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0:00.0	What's the worst thing you can say to anybody?
0:24.2	Podcast you, mister.
0:25.8	That's really weird, you know?
0:27.0	Because if I want to hurt you, I should say unpodcast you, mister, because podcast
0:31.4	you is really nice, man.
0:34.0	I gotta say it's hard to do Hoffman doing Lenny.
0:38.4	Could you do Lenny?
0:39.9	I don't know.
0:40.9	I feel like I don't know what to Hoffman.
0:42.2	The Hoffman thing is just kind of running.
0:44.3	I mean, this is almost the Hoffman thing.
0:47.0	Right.
0:48.0	And then the Lenny thing is a little, I feel like I'm just going into Cartoon Ship month
0:52.0	there.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:54.0	I think when you're doing Lenny, you're just doing angry Jew.
0:56.2	Right.
0:56.2	You're just, yeah, like Hoffman, you're, that's very specific.
1:01.2	The Hoffman thing, but then you're trying to put Lenny on the hop.
1:05.0	It's an interesting bout, look, we love it when our guests interject before they're introduced.
1:10.0	Yeah, our guests can just weigh in.
1:11.4	I don't know if our guest has a Hoffman aura Lenny.
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