How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography

The classic autobiography from the prescient, influential, and controversial American stand-up comic.

Featuring a new preface by comedian Lewis Black and a new foreword by jazz critic Howard Reich

"I read this book for the first time when I was twelve years old. It made me want to be in showbiz, have a lot of sex, and be Jewish. I've rethought that last one." -Penn Jillette, author of God No!

During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of org...