 Hef first met Lenny in 1958. There was starting to be a buzz about him. Hef and some of his friends went out to San Francisco to see him. And it was early in the time when Lenny was pivoting away from the more traditional slapstick joke telling that he had done early in his career to make a living, frequently at strip clubs, to more of the kind of stream of consciousness social commentary that he would become renowned for.