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So what have they done to our very Yiddish so?
Jewish Chronicle The decline of the “Jewish so”, with its intonation borrowed from “nu”, is happening more or less in sync with the rise of the automatic “so,” what Lenny Bruce would surely categorise as the “Goyish so”. Just like the transmission of actual words, like … |
Awkward Bill Cosby encounter revealed in ‘Hot Pants’ memoir – Page Six
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Awkward Bill Cosby encounter revealed in 'Hot Pants' memoir
Page Six Susan Silver, one of the first female TV comedy writers, went to school with Jim Morrison, appeared in a movie with Elvis Presley, and was set up on a date with Lenny Bruce. But the story she told at Michael's to debut her memoir, “Hot Pants in … |
Review: Characters cross paths in Laird Hunt’s ‘The Evening Road’ – Boulder Daily Camera
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Review: Characters cross paths in Laird Hunt's 'The Evening Road'
Boulder Daily Camera I realize that I'm speaking from a position of privilege as an English-speaking white, straight male, but I've always subscribed to the Lenny Bruce school of thought: We can give words, ugly as they may be, too much power. The author's curious choice … |
The Cheech You Don’t Know – Pasadena Weekly
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The Cheech You Don't Know
Pasadena Weekly Lenny Bruce, when he was active in standup, said something like “pot will be legal because all the lawyers I know smoke it.” [Laughs.] And that's right. It's inevitable. It's like a lava flow. You can stand in front of it, I just wouldn't recommend it … |
Comedian Gab Bonesso throws her manic energy into debut album – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Comedian Gab Bonesso throws her manic energy into debut album
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette This was pre-YouTube and she checked out everything they had on Lenny Bruce at the Carnegie Library. “I was like, 'Now THAT's comedy, because he did so much more.' He woke up an audience. He wasn't afraid to have levels. He would cry on stage, … |
The Mother of all Film Bombs – Fairfield Daily Republic
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The Mother of all Film Bombs
Fairfield Daily Republic The finale: At the end of the movie they had a bunch of then-celebrities gather in what was an attempt to sorta recreate the famous Sgt. Pepper album cover that featured notables such as Mae West, Lenny Bruce, Sonny Liston, Bette Davis, Dylan Thomas … |
A generation easily offended – Terrace Standard
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A generation easily offended
Terrace Standard The great comics of our time, Carlin, Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Steve Martin and all the way back to Chaplin attacked these situations head on and allowed us to laugh, however uncomfortably, when we looked at ourselves in the mirror. Who can forget Carlin's … |
Al Golin, PR exec who got credit from Ray Kroc for McDonald’s success, dies – Chicago Tribune
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Al Golin, PR exec who got credit from Ray Kroc for McDonald's success, dies
Chicago Tribune She was divorced with two young children whom Golin would adopt: Barry, now a musician/teacher in London, and Karen, a longtime schoolteacher, who lives in Arizona. Golin called Kerns, and on their first date they went to a Lenny Bruce performance. |
Caught in ‘The Age of Spin’: When Dave Chappelle met 2017 – The … – The Gateway Online
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Caught in 'The Age of Spin': When Dave Chappelle met 2017 – The …
The Gateway Online Whether it's Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Tracey Morgan, or Sarah Silverman, for some comedians, comedy and controversy go hand in hand, and on March … |
Local comic Will Durst returns to Punch Line – SFGate
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Local comic Will Durst returns to Punch Line
SFGate Will Durst is a San Francisco comic in the spirit of Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, mining political humor from the headlines but remaining embedded in the Bay Area. Durst has been performing at local comedy clubs since the 1980s and along with his wife … |