The man who made comedy the frontline for free speech, Lenny Bruce shattered the rigid taboos of his time with his wry, deeply iconoclastic humour—even when it cost him. Eternally on the wrong side of the law for addressing everything from politics and religion to sex, Bruce's foul-mouthed genius would come to inspire countless generations of comics to come— even making a (posthumous) comeback on TV’s The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel. In this intimate doc made only a few years after his untimely death, get to know the man behind the myth through interviews with close friends and rare excerpts from his legendary acts.

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