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MARK HUGHES COBB: It's no joke: Humor isn't hate
Tuscaloosa News Some of our most brilliant comic artists have drawn from the deep within: Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce. Shakespeare's comedies frequently tear through uncomfortable dichotomies: Shylock and Malvolio can be both villian and victim. Marcus … |
Why Han Solo Is The Most Goyish ‘Star Wars’ Hero – Forward
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Why Han Solo Is The Most Goyish 'Star Wars' Hero
Forward In Lenny Bruce's terms, Han Solo always struck me as the most goyish of the “Star Wars” heroes. And in the new film “Solo,” he seems even more so. Recall (or, for a younger generation, come and learn) that for the outlaw comedian Lenny Bruce … |
Lenny Bruce, le comique qui débrida l’Amérique – Télérama.fr
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Lenny Bruce, le comique qui débrida l'Amérique
Télérama.fr C'est ainsi que nous nous retrouvons aujourd'hui face à une légende oubliée depuis des siècles, Lenny Bruce (1925-1966), provocateur de génie qui scandalisa l'Amérique de Kennedy. Les éditions Tristram, installées loin de tout, dans les campagnes du … |
Philip Roth: An appreciation by Bill Flanagan – CBS News
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Philip Roth: An appreciation by Bill Flanagan
CBS News He wrote about male attitudes toward sex with a fierceness that offended conservatives, feminists, and some literary critics. He was like a mix of Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence and Lenny Bruce. Roth's super-ego studied his id like a scientist making notes on … |
Comedian Tommy Chong still toking, joking at 80 – Sumter Item
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Comedian Tommy Chong still toking, joking at 80
Sumter Item "When I was 17, a jazz musician gave me a Lenny Bruce record and a joint at the same time, and it changed my life," he recalls. "I quit school I think a week later and went on the road and became a blues musician and eventually a comedian, and the rest … |
Stoner comedy pioneer Tommy Chong still toking, joking at 80 – The Spokesman-Review
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Stoner comedy pioneer Tommy Chong still toking, joking at 80
The Spokesman-Review “When I was 17, a jazz musician gave me a Lenny Bruce record and a joint at the same time, and it changed my life,” he recalls. “I quit school I think a week later and went on the road and became a blues musician and eventually a comedian, and the rest … |
How Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint shocked America – The Independent
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How Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint shocked America
The Independent Portnoy arrived at a moment when New York Jewish comics like Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce were re-writing the rules of stand-up and "one of the dirtiest books ever published" (The New Yorker), born out of the author's well-practised dinner party … 'An astonishing force field': Philip Roth, as remembered by authors and friends Bancroft: Philip Roth deftly explored male lust, Jewish identity, American history and politics Philip Roth, the Mandarin Joker |
Mrs. Maisel has been renewed for Season 3 — which means we can basically kiss Netflix’s Gilmore Girls Season 2 … – HelloGiggles
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Mrs. Maisel has been renewed for Season 3 — which means we can basically kiss Netflix's Gilmore Girls Season 2 …
HelloGiggles The first season of Mrs. Maisel found Midge trying her hand at an independent life while secretly navigating the pitfalls of the stand-up comedy world, befriending real-life stand-up comedy icons like Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) and making enemies out of … The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3 Confirmed Amazon Renews The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for Season 3 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Renewed for Season 3 by Amazon (EXCLUSIVE) |
Kathy Griffin brings her controversial head for comedy to Houston – CultureMap Houston
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Kathy Griffin brings her controversial head for comedy to Houston
CultureMap Houston Maybe let's hope not, at least not Lenny Bruce in his later years. The once-brilliant satirist turned into a bitter bore, reading transcripts from his obscenity trials onstage. “I've been doing standup comedy a long time. I'm in the Guinness World … |
Interview: Alan Clements, spiritually incorrect – Echonetdaily
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Interview: Alan Clements, spiritually incorrect
Echonetdaily Blend Noam Chomsky, Lenny Bruce and Terrence McKenna and you have Alan Clements. Mandy Nolan spoke with the spiritually astute humourist ahead of his Byron show about spirituality, mindfulness and opium-laced cigars. Mandy Nolan: What does it … |
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