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The National Comedy Center Has Its Grand Opening In Jamestown, New York This Week – Forbes


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The National Comedy Center Has Its Grand Opening In Jamestown, New York This Week
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… Trevor Noah, W. Kamau Bell, Brian Regan, Kevin James, Joan and Melissa Rivers, Robert Klein, David Steinberg, Martin Short, Joy Behar and the Smothers Brothers, as well as the families of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Harold Ramis and George Carlin.
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“I’m not sick. The world is sick & I’m the surgeon with the scalpel for false values.” – Meet comedian Lenny Bruce’s … – The 405

"I'm not sick. The world is sick & I'm the surgeon with the scalpel for false values." – Meet comedian Lenny Bruce's
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Lenny Bruce: comedian, scathingly sharp social satirist, oppressed by meddling moralists and busybody bureaucrats who sought to use the law and circumvent the First Amendment to shut him up. Yet, he was far from one to roll over on anything. 52 years …

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National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY, gets the last laugh with engaging, entertaining museum: Preview – cleveland.com


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National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY, gets the last laugh with engaging, entertaining museum: Preview
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Other comedians featured here: Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce, who was jailed for four months in 1964 after a performance in New York City. Among the items on display: Bruce's trench coat, which he famously wore on stage after he started to get arrested …