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Richard Lewis Stands Up for Lenny Bruce – Fishbowl NY (blog)


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Richard Lewis Stands Up for Lenny Bruce
Fishbowl NY (blog)
LennyBruceAutobiographyCover This 50th anniversary month of the death of Lenny Bruce began with Da Capo Press re-issuing Bruce's autobiography How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, with a new preface by Lewis Black and all proceeds going to The …

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Lenny Bruce’s Legacy – New York Times

Lenny Bruce's Legacy
New York Times
“How Would Lenny Bruce the Rebel Play Today?” (On Comedy, Arts pages, Aug. 10), on the 50th anniversary of Lenny Bruce's death, was aggravating. Most annoying: Patton Oswalt's comment that comics who said they found Mr. Bruce funny were lying.

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Lenny Bruce Would’ve Eaten Up ‘Sausage Party’: Peter Bart – Deadline


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Lenny Bruce Would've Eaten Up 'Sausage Party': Peter Bart
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The opening of Rogen's newest iconoclastic foray happens to coincide this week with the 50th anniversary of Lenny Bruce's death and the re-publication of his brilliantly bizarre autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. A generation ago …

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Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? – New York Times


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Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny?
New York Times
Last week, on the 50th anniversary of Lenny Bruce's death, a small crowd gathered at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on the Upper West Side of Manhattan to watch videos of his stand-up. Mr. Bruce appeared on a large screen and told jokes for …

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Remembering Lenny Bruce – Truthdig

Remembering Lenny Bruce  Truthdig

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Lenny Bruce – He fought for the right to offend – Jewish Chronicle


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Lenny Bruce – He fought for the right to offend
Jewish Chronicle
Lenny Bruce died 50 years ago this week, sitting on the lavatory with a syringe in his arm. His electric typewriter was still purring: "Conspiracy to interfere with the 4th Amendment cons…" He had stopped mid-word in one of the desperate legal …

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8 Great Lenny Bruce Routines – Forward

8 Great Lenny Bruce Routines  Forward

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Can We Take a Joke? documentary clip remembers stand-up icon Lenny Bruce – Entertainment Weekly


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Can We Take a Joke? documentary clip remembers stand-up icon Lenny Bruce
Entertainment Weekly
Has society become more or less tolerant of controversial, button-pushing comedy material in the years since the death of stand-up icon Lenny Bruce, who died exactly half a century ago on Wednesday? That's one of the questions considered in a new …

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Comedy Genius and Controversy: Remembering Lenny Bruce – WNYC


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Comedy Genius and Controversy: Remembering Lenny Bruce
WNYC
Controversial satirist Lenny Bruce died 50 years ago today of a drug overdose. Born Leonard Alfred Schneider, the Navy veteran turned comedian toured the world and commented on everything from religion to racial epithets, with the intent of calling out …
The man who died from “an overdose of police”Slugger O’Toole

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Arts Commentary: Lenny Bruce — On the 50th Anniversary of his Death – The Arts Fuse

Arts Commentary: Lenny Bruce — On the 50th Anniversary of his Death  The Arts Fuse

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