Lenny Bruce
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Lenny Bruce
Ive was reading a few articles about Lenny Bruce's life today. I have always been a fan of comics like Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Hicks. These people always had that spark in their routine and knew how to reveal the human condition while making you laugh silly at the same time. Surprisingly I have never heard of Lenny (probably because he was way before my time) but from what I read today, he seems to have revolutionized the comedy scene and paved the way for the comics I stated above. I would like to learn more about him. Anyone here who know more about him? Was he truly as funny as they say he was?
Re: Lenny Bruce
Autologic, he was before my time, I saw a great documentary on him. What the goverment did to that man was horseshit. He fought like hell to give us our rights of self expression.
Shane God Damned Murphy
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Re: Lenny Bruce
Autologic,
Lennny the movie can be found on DvD Dustan Hoffman plays Lenny great movie
Lennny the movie can be found on DvD Dustan Hoffman plays Lenny great movie
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Re: Lenny Bruce
Autologic,
I don't personally find Lenny Bruce funny in the way that comics today are made to make us laugh. He's a satirist and was on the scene during the transition of caberet/vaudeville turning into what we now know as stand up. I personally, would rather catagorize him almost with the Beat Authors of the time (Keruoac, Ginsberg), becase his material was just as edgy, just with a more amusing spin.
He did say some great things and satirized things that were too taboo at the time. I actually was listening to him the other day and just about died after he said something that I don't think could even be said today! I think it takes a little bit more time to warm up to him, though, so give him patience and listening to his records multiple times I think is best. The first run through, you might think,"Well...where's the jokes?!" But if you wait a bit and then listen to them later, you'll realize the genious of the man.
Here's a pretty nifty article on Pryor, Hicks *and* Bruce that is really pretty acurate, I feel. http://gregproops.com/05_ink/ink_004.html - Good article. '
-Jane
I don't personally find Lenny Bruce funny in the way that comics today are made to make us laugh. He's a satirist and was on the scene during the transition of caberet/vaudeville turning into what we now know as stand up. I personally, would rather catagorize him almost with the Beat Authors of the time (Keruoac, Ginsberg), becase his material was just as edgy, just with a more amusing spin.
He did say some great things and satirized things that were too taboo at the time. I actually was listening to him the other day and just about died after he said something that I don't think could even be said today! I think it takes a little bit more time to warm up to him, though, so give him patience and listening to his records multiple times I think is best. The first run through, you might think,"Well...where's the jokes?!" But if you wait a bit and then listen to them later, you'll realize the genious of the man.
Here's a pretty nifty article on Pryor, Hicks *and* Bruce that is really pretty acurate, I feel. http://gregproops.com/05_ink/ink_004.html - Good article. '
-Jane
I don't know Karate. But I know Ka-Razy!
Re: Lenny Bruce
Autologic, I saw the movie with Hoffman, and have listened to Lenny's albums. There is a very funny joke in the movie, when Lenny invites his stripper wife to meet his mother, and Grandmother. They are in this nice house, having dinner and real way Lenny met his wife is when he saw her stripping. So his Grandmother, or was it Aunt? asks how they met. And Lenny tells his wife what to say,
She says, Well, I was on the subway, and this man exposed himself to me, next thing I knew we were married!
(or words to that effect)
I know you had to be there, but she says it with a straight face and you think everyone would die, but they all start laughing. Apparently they are a family of entertainers. I think he married a stripper to save her, but she had to strip for a while after they were married so that didn't work!
Lenny was pretty funny, a bit of a prude in real life, it was said his Mother was very domineering and got him started as a dancer. He stopped dancing and started talking about sex, politics and money. He talked about buying things on time..credit..before anyone else talked about materialism.
My favourite remark of his was about how this country lives off selling T&A, it's T&A, T&A, T&A, T&A in every magazine right next to articles by Billy Graham. But if a woman nurses her baby in public it's indecent-
Good point-Sex sells, and so called good people were making a lot of money off it selling sex.
Lenny made fun of unfaithful husbands (I really liked that), bigots, men and women equally. He really ripped people apart and made huge waves. Some of his stuff is painful to hear even now because so much is the same.
Nat
She says, Well, I was on the subway, and this man exposed himself to me, next thing I knew we were married!
(or words to that effect)
I know you had to be there, but she says it with a straight face and you think everyone would die, but they all start laughing. Apparently they are a family of entertainers. I think he married a stripper to save her, but she had to strip for a while after they were married so that didn't work!
Lenny was pretty funny, a bit of a prude in real life, it was said his Mother was very domineering and got him started as a dancer. He stopped dancing and started talking about sex, politics and money. He talked about buying things on time..credit..before anyone else talked about materialism.
My favourite remark of his was about how this country lives off selling T&A, it's T&A, T&A, T&A, T&A in every magazine right next to articles by Billy Graham. But if a woman nurses her baby in public it's indecent-
Good point-Sex sells, and so called good people were making a lot of money off it selling sex.
Lenny made fun of unfaithful husbands (I really liked that), bigots, men and women equally. He really ripped people apart and made huge waves. Some of his stuff is painful to hear even now because so much is the same.
Nat
