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Once Around the Track
New York Times MONDAY PUZZLE — One of my favorite types of gratification felt when solving a puzzle is getting a genius joke that a constructor came up with to use in a grid. I feel included and savvy, and, as cheesy as it sounds, I get a little glow of gratitude … |
Collecting The Work Of Lenny Bruce – NPR
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Collecting The Work Of Lenny Bruce
NPR Email. September 27, 20185:03 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition · The Kitchen Sisters. The comic Lenny Bruce was brilliant, profane and self-destructive. After Bruce's death at age 40, his widow and their daughter started archiving all that he had left … |
EDITORIAL: High and wry – North Shore News
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EDITORIAL: High and wry
North Shore News A comedian once observed that marijuana legalization was inevitable – especially considering how many law students smoked that stuff. Fifty years later Lenny Bruce sounds prophetic, in part because the legalization process has been characterized by … |
Tiffany Haddish Talks Tea Parties, Gardening and Working With Kevin Hart – Parade
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Tiffany Haddish Talks Tea Parties, Gardening and Working With Kevin Hart
Parade Richard Pryor, Lucille Ball, Moms Mabley, Carol Burnett, Bill Cosby, Lenny Bruce. Tom Hanks on Bosom Buddies. Are you a morning person or a night person? Girl, I'm a “What time are they paying me to get up?” type of person. Tomorrow I've got to get up … Kevin Hart And Tiffany Haddish Address Katt Williams, Talk Night School + More |
Rachel Brosnahan on Emmy Win and ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Season 2 – Variety
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Rachel Brosnahan on Emmy Win and 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Season 2
Variety … she says, and the actors are expected to be word perfect, “down to the 'if,' 'and,' 'the,' and contractions.” As for Season 2 of the show, Brosnahan says fans can expect to see more of her character's relationship with Lenny Bruce, although there's … |
‘Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12’ Review: Thinking Inside the Box – Wall Street Journal
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'Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12' Review: Thinking Inside the Box
Wall Street Journal (Progressive hearing loss kept him from any serious musical ambitions, but at the press preview Mr. Bell told a story about a gig at an L.A. club in the 1950s when he followed Lenny Bruce onstage; after he strummed a few chords, the house quickly … |
‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ praised by Ridgewood’s Michael Zegen for its Emmy wins – NorthJersey.com
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'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' praised by Ridgewood's Michael Zegen for its Emmy wins
NorthJersey.com What was your impression when you read the script for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel the first time? It was one of the best scripts I had ever read. Laugh-out-loud funny. Plus, that time period, with Lenny Bruce, and jazz, and the whole downtown Greenwich … |
John Wilcock, writer – Yorkshire Post
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John Wilcock, writer
Yorkshire Post He loaned the outspoken comedian Lenny Bruce his apartment, put up Bob Dylan and declined the offer of marijuana from Mailer, though he later changed his views, dabbling in magic mushrooms and LSD as recreational drugs entered the Greenwich … |
The pc police strike: Effort to ban ‘shekel’ is a real meshugas | Mulshine – NJ.com
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The pc police strike: Effort to ban 'shekel' is a real meshugas | Mulshine
NJ.com And then of course there is the word "schmuck," which derives from the same root. The comedian Lenny Bruce was once arrested on obscenity charges for employing it in his stand-up routine. So let's put that on the list of banned words as well. Better … |
The National Comedy Center Is an Unlikely Attraction That’s Putting Western New York Back on the Map – Condé Nast Traveler
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The National Comedy Center Is an Unlikely Attraction That's Putting Western New York Back on the Map
Condé Nast Traveler There's a huge display of George Carlin's seven dirty words you can't say on television, along with Lenny Bruce's iconic trench coat and posthumous pardon for a nearly 40-year-old obscenity conviction. You can watch comedians discuss how soon is too … |
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