Lenny Bruce Without Tears (1972)

The outrageous groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble is profiled by a close friend Fred Baker who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruces memory evokes instead of the tears By presenting Bruces landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff Bruces genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted lawbreaker