"A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species."
— Penelope Gilliatt

January 1, 1970

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To Wit: Skin and Bones of Comedy (New York: Scribner's and Macmillan, 1990), captioning an image of Lenny Bruce