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Lenny Bruce


Born
in Mineola, New York, The United States
October 13, 1925

Died
August 03, 1966

Website

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Entertainment, Nonfiction


Lenny Bruce, born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy which contained satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon in 2003.

Bruce paved the way for counterculture-era comedians. His trial for obscenity was a landmark of freedom of speech in the United States. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him third (behind Richard Pryor and George Carlin) on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.






was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obs ...more

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Let the Buyer Beware
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The Legendary Berkeley Concert
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“There are never enough 'I love you's.”
― Lenny Bruce
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“If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”
― Lenny Bruce
tags: censorship, fuck, government, profanity
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“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”
― Lenny Bruce
tags: god, jesus, organized-religion, religion
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