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Don't get me wrong; I'm not a Lenny Bruce nut or anything ("I'm not a nut!"--Lenny's impression of former Louisiana governor Huey Long). I have most of his comedy records, though that's not saying much because he only put out a few. (I don't like the later ones of him parading his legal hassles.) But I woke up early this morning and started thinking of Lenny's "White-Collar Drunks" routine. This was because the dream I'd just woke up from had in it a catamaran. The connection of catamarans with the Bruce routine, of course, is the part where the cafe drunk, talking to the bartender about his dog and trying to connive a free drink, says, "Last week he killed three cocker spaniels, a catamara(hic)an, and a school bus. (My father's very wealthy.) And he can be pretty rotten...if we don't get a drinky-winky, eh...?...get it, you sonofabitch, you?" When I got up, I went to the computer and did a Yahoo search on "yet knish", the famous (well, maybe not) phrase from his parody of the movie "The Defiant Ones" (White escaped convict: "Come on, Jane!" Black escaped convict: "Whattaya keep calling me Jane for?" White: "Well, you don't want to be called 'boy', do ya?"). Not one reference to the phrase! To quote Lenny talking about the humongous disparity between the salaries of schoolteachers and famous entertainers, "This is really sick." So I thought I would remedy this situation. |
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