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Transcribed this from Lenny Bruce’s 1961 Carnegie Hall Concert by a submitter:

I’m a definite conformist. Otherwise I wouldn’t have thrown that tie away with the horse on it. Why’d I throw it away? Still good. Cus I was out of step. Had to throw it away.

Anyone is definitely rationalizing who says: “All beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Not so. You have from motion picture been brainwashed, I’ve been, I assume you’ve been… a certain face you will buy. And any chick who comes out with an ear growing out here you’re not going to tell me she’s beautiful. Interesting face? Yeah. But as far as being horny looking forget it. No. Conversation piece… can do jokes with her… so I figure…
what could you do to get a good composite? What is beauty to you?
To build a girl singer, a chick that would come out…
The most jaded columnist; Arthur Gelb from the New York times. Alex Freeman from the Inquirer…
“How was your week?…”
And they’ve seen everything.
Dick Schaap; Newsweek.
A chick comes out that makes you all go: “Look at that”!
Cus “gown” they’ve done. “Hairstyle” they’ve done. “Voice” they’ve done.
What kind of a chick, that any kind, even the Greyline tours; the chicks all dressed up with the high necks and the broken out backs man… Chicks who come out who have those wrist corsages…
What would I do that would really make you look up?
Chick comes out in a gimmick: hair under her arms.
Think about it. Hair under her arms man. But you don’t give it away right away. There’s a couple of ballads. And they’re reading. All of a sudden:
“Freddie!”
“What?”
“Did you see…?”
“See what?”
“Ahh… I don’t know ahh… it’s the lights I think in here.”
Now she’s really got this guy pinned. So the owner says: “Look at that, look who’s lookin’ he never looks at anyone! Pops Whittaker’s really pinnin’ her!” He’s really lookin’ now alright but now he’s waiting for the flash again but no. Couple of ballads and walks. Now all the columnists start talking to her but they talk to her this way: “Gee you’re very good ahh…” and they try real trick ways…
“Where’s the dressing room?”
“It’s over there.”
“Ah.”
And the owner: “What’s with it they’re always after her and they’re talking to her and their heads are always like this…”
Now they come back every night. She does it once or twice a week…
“There it is!”
“There’s what?”
“That chick’s got hair under her arms!”
“Ah you’re outta your mind man… That’s disgusting! Terrible taste.”
“Well I thought that the first time I thought I saw it. And I went home and I just… I’ve been back here six times this week! You don’t know what a release it was to see her do that man! I just thought she’d never do it again man! But she’s really got a bush under there man I tell ya… Now when I first went home I said that… I can’t believe that a contemporary woman… that is disgusting it’s in horrendous taste but then I started to think; is it in bad taste from a theological concept is it blasphemous? Is it against God? No. Is it hygiene? Certainly not. No it doesn’t relate to hygiene at all. If it was related to hygiene then you would have to be consistent and shave the eyebrows, the head, the smushka, the whole bit. So it does not relate to hygiene at all.”
What does it relate to?
Style that’s all. Custom; style. Fashionable. That’s all. It only relates to fashion that’s all. Has no other… that’s the validity in it: fashion.
Now, but to have the chick come out with just hair under her arms, the viewer would not buy it because they would say: “Anybody can do that”. So you have to give it some style. Cut it a little, close keep it low in the back, and give it some form… maybe shave it give it a pyramid.
So now the chick is on and the guy goes: “Hey that chick has hair under her arms! Yeah but it’s… different it’s… she takes care of herself.” You buy it. Definitely. That would be your beauty kind of scene.

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