An inside look at the life of the brilliant satirist, Lenny Bruce. Narrated by Robert DeNiro, the film follows Bruce’s evolution from strip club comic to improvisational hipster genius. Nobody was safe from the scathing riffs that punctuated the comic’s infamous act. Crooked judges, prosecutors, hypocrites, bigots, minorities, majorities, and the Catholic Church—they were all hot on the trail of Bruce, who never pulled a punch in his life. With humor and pathos, director Robert Weide revisits Bruce’s greatest triumphs and lowest depths of his tragedy. Bruce, who died in 1966 at age 40, was the last performer in America to stand trial for obscene language.