Thank you, Mask Man!
I didn't expect Lenny Bruce to be a Lone Ranger fan. In fact, I always imagined people who found enjoyment in unoriginal and unrealistic westerny forms of entertainment to be inherently bland, vanilla personalities with no taste and too much testosterone. It's possible that's just my rapid-fire tendency to discriminate about other people's taste, but I have faith in Lenny's taste, and applaud his parody on Lone Ranger--both for its incomprehensible jibberish slash yiddish dialogue, and its brilliant potrayal of hypocrisy.
The masked Texas Ranger in The Lone Ranger is like Zorro or Superman or any other disguised mystery hero who hides from the public. He is too humble and busy saving the world to accept thanks or praise or kisses from swooning women. Not only is he humble, but he's proper; he uses perfect grammar and precise speech completely devoid of slang and colloquial phrases. Here's about the point in time when Lenny Bruce begins to hate Texas Ranger. And my perception of Lenny Bruce is that when/if he hates something he will proceed to make endless fun of it (and publish it). Lenny rips the character a new one in his parody when he infuses yiddish and vulgarity into his speech pattern. The cartoon clip also makes me wonder if Mask Man (and/or his creator) is(/are) drunk or high during creative brainstorming and production. This is another display of hypocrisy because Texas Ranger in The Lone Ranger definitely does not drink or smoke or subcribe to the idea of consuming highly dangerous illegal drugs, while it's routine daily activity for Lenny Bruce.
So pretty much Lenny Bruce is a druggie genius who unmasked The Lone Ranger's Masked Man for no reason except an as example of high comedy and public portrayal of his distaste with bad western television.
(Just for the record, I hate westerns and probably would shoot myself in the face with a silver bullet (hi-yo) if I had to endure more than a few minutes of Lone Ranger).

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