Playboy Interview: Denis Leary

Playboy Interview: Denis LearyWhen comedian Denis Leary first stormed the comedy-club scene in the late 1980s, he saluted audiences with a defiantly raised middle digit, swilled beer onstage, chain-smoked and loudly savaged political correctness, vegetarians and pretentious rock stars. Part of a generation of young comics that included Jon Stewart, Colin Quinn and Sam Kinison, Leary was slammed by old-timers and prudes for his machine-gun barrage of four-letter expletives. But younger crowds bou...