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'F*** you, madam': Lenny Bruce's obscene 1962 comedy tour that never was
Starts at 60 Lenny Bruce's 'vulgar' Australian shows were axed. He'd previously been arrested for his comedy material. Picture source: Getty. These days, comedians can't go a sentence without dropping an f-bomb or relating a sex story that leaves comedy venues in … Family Feud to be “rested.” – TV Tonight |
Kanye West illustrates the responsibility of free speech – Toledo Blade
Toledo Blade |
Kanye West illustrates the responsibility of free speech
Toledo Blade Two: Free speech means nothing if it is not permitted to offend. Truth, like wisdom, is mutable. Its essence may be unchanging, but human understanding of truth is constantly incomplete and evolutionary. So Lenny Bruce is a hero of free expression … |
Michelle Wolf, the White House Roast and the Thin Line of Comedy – Fair Observer
Fair Observer |
Michelle Wolf, the White House Roast and the Thin Line of Comedy
Fair Observer Yet Schlapp — the fabulously wealthy chair of the American Conservative Union and political consultant to the Koch brothers and a host of fabulously wealthy corporations — had proposed a bizarre inversion of Herzen's dictum. To him, it was Wolf who … CARLTON FLETCHER: Righteous indignation as comedy Comedy Vs. Washington: When Show Business Is Politics For Obnoxious People |
Kogos: Another serendipitous Sudbury connection – The Sudbury Star
The Sudbury Star |
Kogos: Another serendipitous Sudbury connection
The Sudbury Star Some of my musical heroes were on the band stand; Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, and Roy Eldredge. The Shearing Quintet travelled all around the US, Canada and Australia. We played in Hawaii with the Hawaii symphony. When we got into a city, we stayed the … |
Gerson: America needs a restoration of rhetoric – LubbockOnline.com
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Gerson: America needs a restoration of rhetoric
LubbockOnline.com American political rhetoric has changed dramatically over time. After being florid and verbose, Lincoln made it spare and poetic. With radio and television, presidential language became more conversational, personal and image-oriented. Kennedy was, in … |
Trump’s Team Can Handle the Truth About Their Lies—Why Can’t the Press? – Observer
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Trump's Team Can Handle the Truth About Their Lies—Why Can't the Press?
Observer We need Lenny Bruce, not Jay Leno. Comedy is supposed to make comfortable people uncomfortable. That's the point. Ergo, Wolf, who matched her subjects in extremity and intensity. She was rough and raunchy and her targets, rough and raunchy themselves … Michelle Wolf rips Trump in blistering act Michelle Wolf, the White House roast and the thin line of comedy A roast too far |
America needs a restoration of rhetoric – Sacramento Bee
Newsweek |
America needs a restoration of rhetoric
Sacramento Bee George Wallace and the profanity and vulgarity of comedian Lenny Bruce. But the updated versions of both have come to dominate American politics in an entirely new way. It is as if, in the struggle for America's rhetorical soul, Wallace has finally won … The rhetoric of our era has reached its vile peak |
The week ahead in LA theater, April 29-May 6: ‘The Baby Dance: Mixed’ at Rubicon Theatre and more – Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times |
The week ahead in LA theater, April 29-May 6: 'The Baby Dance: Mixed' at Rubicon Theatre and more
Los Angeles Times I'm Lenny Bruce In this meticulously researched solo biography tracing the life and prosecution of the groundbreaking early 1960s comic provocateur, actor Ronnie Marmo and director Joe Mantegna offer subsequent generations not only a sense of who … |
Michelle Wolf rips Trump in blistering act – Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel |
Michelle Wolf rips Trump in blistering act
Orlando Sentinel In a world that doesn't shock easily, comedian Michelle Wolf stunned Washington with her take-no-prisoners act Saturday at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Imagine if Richard Pryor or Lenny Bruce had tackled that gig, and you get an … A roast too far Michelle Wolf's jokes assume that we are ignorant The Break with Michelle Wolf | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix |
Por el derecho a ofender: Lenny Bruce – LetrasLibres.com
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Por el derecho a ofender: Lenny Bruce
LetrasLibres.com Ceremonia de apertura en Cannes 2016. La cinta inaugural, fuera de concurso, es Café Society (2016), la entrega anual de Woody Allen, y el maestro de ceremonias Laurent Laffite recibe al octogenario cineasta neoyorkino con un chiste: “Has estado … |