Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)

Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed him into a leading figure of the 1960s counterculture. This is his story.

Robert B. Weide

Director

Robert De Niro

as Self - Narrator(voice)

Steve Allen(1921-2000)

as Self

Honey Bruce Friedman(1927-2005)

as Self

Kitty Bruce(1955-2026)

as Self

Lenny Bruce(1925-1966)

as Self(archive footage)

JoJo D'Amore(1930-2005)

as Self

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