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PARIS(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Guy Bedos, who drew inspiration from Lenny Bruce in becoming one of France’s most popular and bitingly satirical comics in a 60-year career that took him from nightclubs to movies, television and the theater, died on May 28 at his home in Paris.

In , judges in the French capital decided that the comedian Nicolas Bedos even had the right to call Ms Le Pen a “fascist bitch”.

Bedos, 82, a veteran comic star, said that Le Pen was “waging Hitler's campaign” against the Jews by “replacing Jews with Arabs and blacks”.

The far-right politician Marine Le Pen sued Mr. Bedos after he compared her to Hitler.

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The growing shadow of Jean-Marie Le Pen prompted people throughout France to go to the polls on March Half of them were expected to stay.

He was 85.

His son Nicolas Bedos announced the death on Twitter. His daughter Victoria Bedos said by phone that her father had had Alzheimer’s disease.

Much like Bruce, Bedos was a ferocious political commentator in his satirical, even cynical, sometimes melancholic routines, whether depicting patently racist characters or just downright silly ones.

His outspokenness, complete with crude language, could infuriate politicians of all stripes on the one hand and feminists on the other.

One memorable sketch that was much debated in feminist circles had him repeating the line “All them bitches” while leering at photos of women in a newspaper.

A champion of progressive causes, Bedos was cha