Gus Van Sant

On his own, too.

He was the one man band that decided that these words should be said.

I mean, just the performance of Dustin as Lenny.

But then Lenny himself was just innately, I mean, maybe he learned how to be that way, but he was definitely funny.

And towards the end, he's reading his transcripts.

And then there's that.

There's that.

But he definitely was fast.

He was?

Yeah, depending on which recording.

But just reading the book, Lenny Bruce, ladies and gentlemen, Lenny Bruce, is like just the history of the New York comedy scene and all the bars and the guys that own the bars and the comedians that, like Dangerfields and the comedians that they were...

stealing from, you know, their material from, the table comics that couldn't go on the stage, but like Lenny could learn from them and like actually present them on, you know, impersonate them.

He might not have had like his own funny soul, but he adapted it, you know, and in that book they're sort of describing him coming back from San Francisco and all of a sudden he was this full blown comedian.

But then in the 50s, it would be like jazz, and then a comic, and then more jazz.

They would trade off.

The comics were always kind of there.

Yeah, the beatniks.

Weren't the beatniks.

Like Durante.

People like that.