Steven Kassel

I read Stuart Galbraith IV's DVD review of Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business Of America at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=35908 and...I was also annoyed with the PBS take on history that got shoehorned into the show.Let's face it, Lenny Bruce was busted for saying dirty words.It wasn't a Machiavellian plot to silence his ideas.America in the early sixties wasn't Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.And Buster Keaton's latter-day TV career got short shrift-Keaton himself wouldn't have agreed that his career "never recovered".

Steven Kassel

And why is there a link in my message?

Adam Tyner

That's the way the system works. That link enables people reading your comment to click over to the review you're talking about.

Mr. Salty

I'm sorry, but Lenny Bruce's legal problems are much more complex than that. He particularly riled the Catholic Church, and politically powerful church officials in some cities pushed hard for his prosecution. He was, in fact, targeted for his ideas as much as his language.

"Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth" is a much more thorough and engrossing documentary on the subject.

John Sinnott

I agree with Mr. Salty. Bruce wasn't targeted only for his language, but for what he said.