how it started, and how it grew — word of mouth — which is better than advertising, because it’s free and you're getting it from someone you know, an individual. When I met Lenny for the first time, I gave him an advance copy of an inter- v...
Lenny Bruce
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Where Lenny Bruce appears
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…ent charge involved neither violence nor drunken behavior. The only charge pressed by the city prosecutor was Lenny Bruce's allegedly obscene performance. Nobody’ s prurience was aroused, but that made no difference. After all, there wasn’...
“What are you doing here?” Lenny asked
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…es and sold for $1 each. The price included a notarized statement of authenticity. My second column was about Lenny Bruce—titled “Lenny the Lawyer,” since he defended himself in trials He was arrested for obscene performances only because t...
linens were to be cut into two-inch squares and sold for $1 each. The price included a notarized
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…d twelve jurors, every one with a spot of ash on their foreheads, would have all the surrealistic flavor of a Lenny Bruce fantasy. Since he often talked on stage about his environment, and since police cars and courtrooms had become his env...
Catholic. On Ash Wednesday, the judge removed the spot of ash from his
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2016 marked the 50th anniversary of groundbreaking comedian Lenny Bruce’s death from an overdose of morphine
joke, and on the other side, comedians can’t take criticism. Comedians are big pussies. So to one side you say, ‘If you don’t like a joke, stay out of the comedy clubs.’ To the other side you say, ‘If you don’t like criticism, stop Googling...
… comedians any more. As for me, I’m working on my long awaited (by me) first novel. It’s about a contemporary Lenny Bruce-type satirist. Those scenes where my protagonist performs, I’ve developed onstage myself, although at times it felt li...
g in October 1963, we were talking while he was shaving, when four officers suddenly appeared, loud and obnoxious. He asked them to leave unless they had a search warrant. One of the cops took out his gun. “Here's my search warrant,” he sai...
police cars and courtrooms had become his environment, the content of Lenny's performances began to revolve more and more around the inequities of the legal system. “In the Halls of Justice,” he declared, “the only justice is in the halls.”...
between illegal and prescription drugs--into stream-of-consciousness vignettes. In each succeeding performance, he would sculpt and re-sculpt his concept into a theatrical context, experimenting from show to show like a verbal jazz musician...
, and in his office, the electric typewriter was still humming. He had stopped typing in mid-word: “Conspiracy to interfere with the 4th Amendment const”…constitutes what, I wondered. Lenny was a subscriber to my satirical magazine, The Rea...
l for Total breakfast cereal. Tampax promoted its tampon as “Something over thirty you can trust.” Beatles songs were used to sell cars, or, if you preferred to walk, they also sold sneakers. Time magazine was being peddled by the Byrds' ve...
My second column was about Lenny Bruce—titled “Lenny the Lawyer,” since he defended himself in trials He was arrested for obscene performances only because there were no blasphemy laws. I went to the bank and deposited my check, withdrawing...
My second column was about Lenny Bruce—titled “Lenny the Lawyer,” since he defended
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…d twelve jurors, every one with a spot of ash on their foreheads, would have all the surrealistic flavor of a Lenny Bruce fantasy. Since he often talked on stage about his environment, and since police cars and courtrooms had become his env...
Catholic. On Ash Wednesday, the judge removed the spot of ash from his
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Remembering Lenny Bruce August 3, 2016 marked the 50™ anniversary of groundbreaking comedian Lenny Bruce’ s death from an overdose of morphine, while his New York obscenity conviction at Café Au Go Go was still on appeal. On that same day h...
…rassner's circle of Tavistock iconoclasts, peddling smut in the name of humor and “creative expression,” were Lenny Bruce... These people were taken seriously in certain quarters. LaRouche received enough campaign contributions to qualify h...
advance publicity." My show went fine, but in July, New
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…ent charge involved neither violence nor drunken behavior. The only charge pressed by the city prosecutor was Lenny Bruce's allegedly obscene performance. Nobody’ s prurience was aroused, but that made no difference. After all, there wasn’...
“What are you doing here?” Lenny asked
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