Lenny Bruce or Peter Sellers

 

Mort Sahl invented it and was the best. Carlin has said so multiple times. I have thousands of newspaper articles, audio, video, etc.

Hi,

Sad ... you should hear his voices in The Goons ... it's very different and down right scary as an actor, how someone can switch so quickly and do it right ... the only film example of it that you have was on the ending of "Being There" in an outtake of some sort. But his voices were superb, and when you realize that this was all LIVE RADIO with very few "cuts" (mostly done before the shows by BBC censors and idiots!) ... gives a new meaning to acting, that we don't often get.

Lenny Bruce is good, and his material is important, and in a way this is a very bad comparison, but they both were outstanding on separate ends of the sphere. Peter Sellers, after The Goons, was never really as good, until "Being There", with the exception of the original 3 Pink Panthers. Lenny had the misfortune of being in the USA where what he did was not as appreciated. I think he would have been better in Europe, although I doubt many in the audience would get half of what he was talking about!