louis ck is getting up there with the best ever. Dave Chappelle would be too if he would come up with new material instead of getting scared away to Africa by fame...
@Konicava Scarce?!~?!!You gotta keep looking cause out of the 10 or so comics that I have really delved into, Louis CK has BY FAR the most material. That includes Hicks, Chappelle, Mitch Hedburg, Carlin, Pryor, Gaffigan (he has like an hour). There is at least 8 hours straight of GOLDEN Louis CK originality.
@tpstrat14 You're so wrong, CK has done 2 hbo specials while Carlin did how many? 7? CK has no new material, I watched Hilarious, Chewed up, Live at Beacon and then what? You probably know you're wrong, and having more material than Hicks and Chappelle is not that hard, now more than Carlin who could entertain a massive crowd for more than 8 hours straight without repeating a single joke, thats tough.
@Konicava Let's get you goin in the right direction. You thinking Louis CK has three hours of work makes me cry. You forgot shameless, his two BRILLIANT sitcoms (they do use his standup) and HOURS of original, GOLDEN material in random youtube clips. (opie and anthony show, various talk shows, interviews.. you can go ahead and look him up) Not trying to argue, I just feel sorry for you that you don't already know this.... especially considering you find him "funny as hell"..
@tpstrat14 Yeah thats true about shameless, but interviews aren't material, when a comedian talks its material? No way, material is only what he uses in his sketches, and ok he had a show, now lets get Carlin, he had a show also, which I didn't care about much, hours and hours of materials, many hbo specials, his audiobook lasted like 7 and a half hours, not to say his other material and tapes, one that actually made CK into who he is as a comedian, CK has half of Carlin's material.
@tpstrat14 Not to say he sucks, actually he is in my opinion one of the funniest stand up comedians alive today, but you can't compare him to Carlin yet, Carlin is still the stand up comedy mastermind, then Hicks I believe who inspired Carlin also.
@Konicava OK. I wasn't trying to start any argument. I just hope you know that there's a SHITLOAD of hilarious Louis CK youtube clips where he comes up with bits on the spot and WILL make you shit your pants. I guess if it's off the cuff, it doesn't count? Hmm....
@Konicava Hey, I JUST found two new clips. One is Louis CK giving dating advice to some guy and the other is an interview where Louis had just had a vasectomy and admits it on air. This is the kind of new stuff I find every single day from this guy. lol I can't fucking believe you said his material is scarce. If there was one comic in the history of mankind whose comedy ISN'T scarce that would be Louis CK's....
@Konicava Hey, I JUST found two new clips. One is Louis CK giving dating advice to some guy and the other is an interview where Louis had just had a vasectomy and admits it on air. This is the kind of new stuff I find every single day from this guy. lol I can't fucking believe you said his material is scarce. If there was one comic in the history of mankind whose comedy ISN'T scarce that would be Louis CK's....
Comedy's great tragic genius. He could make you laugh, cry and think in a 3 minute bit. George Carlin was brilliant, but Lenny was the original and the greatest of the thinking man's comedians.
yes but dear Lenny didn't end up happy, wealthy and wise but lonely, destroyed and ravaged by drugs and a screwed up system that still exists today that showed him no mercy, RIP
@misestrelka Yes, it's a sort of subconscious need to verbalize their worthiness of being alive, even though the father runs a slave factory and mom has her PTA and society for matrons of finer things, which include the stamping out of education on sex or on the fact there exists such a thing as a black man. Dirty consciences speak by way of meaningless talk, by way of talk shows, by way of 'reality' TV, by way of karaoke and dancing celebrity shows, lacking any culture, lacking any soul...
I never used to think Lenny Bruce was funny either. It took me a while to gain some insight, but here it is: if you aren't paying attention you'll miss the funny bits. And you really are missing out.
I wish people still talked like this you know. They'd get all excited and the more exciting something was the faster they spoke and you could always understand what they were saying
@Blahblobify He was the birth of free speech humor, Without him there is no Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, Steve Martin, In Living Color...think before you speak dumb-ass.
"such a joy to be alone" - yes I agree wholeheartedly (with the qualification that as long as I don't have to listen to other people's damn noise). Mr. Bruce you are awesome!!! Now my favourite comediene!!! Definitely favorited!!!
@intherein In such places of denial, fascism behind the mask of 'patriotism' is where art has been perhaps the only lifeline, the reason perhaps more Columbines have not occurred. But a wind is felt right now, and it's not deniable, a change is here, and enough is enough...
I don't get the big deal with this guy. Because I am a lifelong fan of good standup comedy and satire I decided to listen to lenny's albums and wow…this guy sucks harder than a Thai hooker. Lenny bruce wasn't arrested for indecency, he was arrested for wasting people's time. He was not funny and his satire sounds more like the ramblings of a retard. I only heard his work after watching the "Lenny" biopic with Dustin Hoffman, which was better than listening to anything the real lenny did.
You are fucking stupid. You don't understand a damn thing. You should just shut the fuck up. Lenny is was and always shall be just about the greatest of all time. Nobody beats him.... YOU SUCK!
Does anyone know the date of this performance? It looks like his pre-strip club days when he was doing 'straight' stuff, but any further precision would be appreciated (doing research on it)
So beautiful and tender and poignant. Ah Lenny, this world was not meant for you. You're somewhere else, in a better place, where you don't have to defend yourself and you're free to comment on humanity's hypocrisies all you want!
The mask of the classic clown...Lenny Bruce...comedy and tragedy in one human soul. The most powerful country on earth...authority couldn't tolerate one tiny insignificant human voice? a comedic one at that...simply because other Americans not only could but enjoyed the humor it contained who also saw value in their constitution...one that allowed "freedom of speech." How was it this one American was denied this right?
@russocomedy Seems to me that every debated issue ends up with a pioneer for the cause, who is intelligent enough to realize that change won't come until a grand stand is taken. These people are self sacrificing enough to put themselves forward knowing their sacrifice may not benefit them in the present, but those in the future. I count Kevorkian among the pioneers.
Good point, sad times...thanks..I wish I could find a version of Lenny's bit about the "..half woman, half man..." from when he was a kid, and he went to 42nd St., and at the arcade, the freak show, was this person...so funny...maybe I can find it, I have a few of his LPs...Thanks Russo
he stole the bit about the electric chair too..the idea that if jesus had been killed in the 20th century christians would be walking around with electric chairs on their necks..only he added a little saying can you imagine people paying tribute to kennedy by wearing little sniper rifles round their necks...
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was that his wife at the end? i can see why he was so pissed. Shes fucking ugly, and annoyingly stupid, but at the end of the day, its better to be with someone you love than noone eh
she looks pretty good for someone who is probably sixty five by now She was probably a stunner when younger and what PRAY TELL did she say that was so "annoyingly stupid" the truth?
@c64c64c64 - Vicious mean-hearted assholes like you deserve calling out. Kitty Bruce was one of the hottest pieces of ass to ever walk the streets of America. The closest you'll ever get to a broad as scorching and sensual as Kitty Bruce in her prime is the DVDs you whack your pud to. Your "annoyingly stupid" comment is pure projection of your own self-image. You're destined to die alone, and deservedly so.
@iChesus Only a true Lenny Bruce fan (or a fan of logic at least) would have seen through my bullshit. I am a huge Bruce fan and I was trollin' with my last comment. A Jeff Dunham fan wouldn't have the ability to form basic sentence structure.
I love deep comedy with social commentary. It clears my head. It's like healthfood. I have a interest in life and the world around me, and I'm not afraid to be kicked mentally in the gut from time to time if it helps me realise something important and help me prospher as a person. But I also like to have a slize of pizza from time to time, and watch Jeff Dunham.
@Wowbagger86 I understand what you mean and I attribute this to your age. As you get older you will appreciate Lenny Bruce and the Bill Hicks even more and eat pizza a little less. Why does pizza have to be the metaphor, shit i'm from Jersey and I love pizza!
I really appreciate Bill Hicks, have a couple DVD's. I must admit I have seen more of him than Lenny Bruce though, but I like what I've seen so far. If you have recomandations of more good comedians please tell me :)
Lol, yeah it was a stupid metaphor. I was thinking about the horrible pizza's at hugh snackfood chains. I made a liar of myself there cause I actually hate those, especialy since I used to be a delivery boy ;) But I can imagine that a real fresh baked Jersey pizza is top knotch.
@Wowbagger86 Lewis Black, David Cross, and Patton Oswalt is what I can name off of the top of my head for good comedians in my opinion. As far as great pizza although it's really good in Jersey, it is not a tourist friendly state but if you ever vacation to NYC you will have a hard time finding a pizzeria that sucks. PEACE.
I'll chck them out, cheers! And even thoug Jersey might not have to many internationaly famous attracktions, at least that I have heard of, If there's hospitable people there I recon I would call it tourist friendly by my standards. It's a long journey for a pizza though, I could order it online perhaps but I fear it would get cold ;)
To add a comedian recommendation, I'd throw in Louis CK, since I think he's the best living comedian. Sadly, I don't know anyone out there who's like Hicks or Bruce anymore. CK, like them, is smart in addition to funny, but he doesn't have the umph to the same extent--he doesn't convey a strong point of view. But, man, he is hilarious.
I like Bill Maher. He has the same questioning look at the way the world is, and he's very funny and smart. Jon Stewart is also good when he does stand-up.
CK is good but there are many others that are just as good, and some that are better than him.
I LOVE Lenny Bruce. He is my favorite comedian of all time, and probably favorite person of all time. It is sad that he isn't very well known anymore. My parents did't even know who he was.
Glad to be of help! That guy can make me laugh a good deal. I personally like his HBO specials the best (Shameless and Chewed-up), but if you don't mind offensive stuff another good treat is a video of his on Youtube called: Louis CK standup clip at "Cinema Classics in NYC 8/3/04"
im just a teenager.. but even I know that all this shit on T.V nowadays is garbage. When I watch the greats like Carlin and Bruce I can really relate to what they are saying. The world seems to make so much more sense...
@Kizzymorgan every video older than 10 years has this comment on it with (insert media here) and (insert people loved by youtube community here), ITS BEEN DONE, FIND SOMETHING NEW TO SAY!
@Kizzymorgan - I was just listening to comic Mark Moran expound on getting boo'ed after mentioning The Grateful Dead. He made an excellent point. He's not even a Dead fan, but he went OFF on the booer for their ignorance, you don't have to like them to appreciate their achievements, if you can't you're fucking ignorant and need to STFU. Immediate gratification feeds ignorance, non-linear digital access have stripped youth of time awareness, and thus perspective of art's development.
@Kizzymorgan Don't worry, there are still great stand ups out there, but you won't see them on the tv. Check out Robert Newman's show A History Of Oil, Stewart Lee, Simon Munnery, Dylan Moran. Couple more but those are the ones I though of off the top of my head.
@Kizzymorgan I think everyone knows (or feel on some level) that its bullshit, but like in most cases, people don't care. It has bothered me for my whole life that in general, the majority of the population don't care about anything, as long as they are content with their current situation.
All my life I'd heard about Lenny Bruce but this is the first thing of his I've ever seen. It's so fantastic and perfect that I'm reluctant to watch anything else!
I'd like to say 'well, the 3 is right next to the 2, so obviously I must of hit the wrong button'.. but of course who knows why I did what, at this point.
That being said, the line could of read 'it would of taken her 6 weeks to get ready' and have been just as poignant.. *G*
We still miss Lenny.. man o man, could we use him this year.
Haha, you're a good sport. I was just being a stickler. So many comments are mean-spirited on the YouTube (seriously, it's a goddamn jungle on here, watch what you say), mine wasn't meant to be. We are in agreement, though. Miss this guy. A great and twisted mind.
I never realised he could hold a tune. I should have guessed - the guy used his voice like a musical instrument, the rhythm and pace of his delivery. A class act. He wasted much of his talent later on, of course, but when you catch footage of him on top form, he's unsurpassed.
@najs94 Read the biography "The Trials Of Lenny Bruce" by .... I can't remember. You'll see that he was no hero of free speech, just a poor sap who wanted his work card back .... that's all, and the police wouldn't give it back. He was cheated by the culture and the courts, unduly picked on.
His autobiography, "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People" says essentially the same thing. He openly admits that he would rather have been working steady than attending court.
@najs94 I hope that's all he's known for because he was NOT funny. Several great and established comics have gone on record to say that lenny bruce sucked.
You can get it on DVD as part of Ladies and Gentlemen... Lenny Bruce. It's an anthology DVD and also contains the Lenny Bruce Performance Film, Thank You Mask Man and the BBC Radio 2 documentary Lenny Bruce is Dead. I've got the anthology and it's very good. Supposedly, however, the Region 1 DVD of Without Tears is a bit dodgy but I've only read that once and I've never watched it.
What a performer. Why is it that the most brilliant people get involved with drugs? I think that they see the world more realistically, and therefore they get discontent. George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, John Lennon, Richard Prior, to name a few.
Jimi Hendrix, Bill Hicks, The Beatles, The Stones, The Doors all on the drugs...
Drugs don't make you brilliant but they do have their uses. You stated they needed to get away from reality, maybe they just wanted a different perspective ;-)
Long live my own right to self imposed ill health, decreed by a country I found in the near to distant future...
Lenny was a hipster, and a comic. Carlin stoled liberally from Lenny as well as from Murray Roman. Part of the reason some of you don't find him funny is a lot of the material is very specific to a certain time in America, a period piece.
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no...i dont need spell checker to know how to spell the word, "realize"...but i have an IQ higher than a 2nd grader...unlike you...you fucking imbecile...please just die already...you are contributing nothing to society
real mature. youtube comedy you are. why don't you stop monitoring? because you can't and you are addicted to youtube. am i right? yes i would have thought so. yeah as for that comment on university. one of the best in the uk. now go fap over youtube comments. so what i have intellectual laziness tbh why does it matter that every word i spell is correct. care bus please.
The woman at the end is wrong - he is talking about what he lost and missed
charlieburkhardt 3 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
sad end for him
VieraBorn 5 days ago
Mr Gaeta?
hammer326 1 week ago
this guys a comedian?
heat4yoass 1 week ago
but this guy is not funny..... :(
TOONMANTIS 1 week ago
Lenny Bruce was a famous dolphin right?
WanderLink 1 week ago
louis ck is getting up there with the best ever. Dave Chappelle would be too if he would come up with new material instead of getting scared away to Africa by fame...
tpstrat14 2 weeks ago
@tpstrat14 He died... like 6 years ago...
casciatod 1 week ago
@tpstrat14 Stanhope come on...CK is funny as hell but his material is as scarce as Chappelle and Hicks.
Konicava 1 week ago
@Konicava Scarce?!~?!!You gotta keep looking cause out of the 10 or so comics that I have really delved into, Louis CK has BY FAR the most material. That includes Hicks, Chappelle, Mitch Hedburg, Carlin, Pryor, Gaffigan (he has like an hour). There is at least 8 hours straight of GOLDEN Louis CK originality.
tpstrat14 6 days ago
@tpstrat14 You're so wrong, CK has done 2 hbo specials while Carlin did how many? 7? CK has no new material, I watched Hilarious, Chewed up, Live at Beacon and then what? You probably know you're wrong, and having more material than Hicks and Chappelle is not that hard, now more than Carlin who could entertain a massive crowd for more than 8 hours straight without repeating a single joke, thats tough.
Konicava 6 days ago
@Konicava Let's get you goin in the right direction. You thinking Louis CK has three hours of work makes me cry. You forgot shameless, his two BRILLIANT sitcoms (they do use his standup) and HOURS of original, GOLDEN material in random youtube clips. (opie and anthony show, various talk shows, interviews.. you can go ahead and look him up) Not trying to argue, I just feel sorry for you that you don't already know this.... especially considering you find him "funny as hell"..
tpstrat14 6 days ago
@tpstrat14 Yeah thats true about shameless, but interviews aren't material, when a comedian talks its material? No way, material is only what he uses in his sketches, and ok he had a show, now lets get Carlin, he had a show also, which I didn't care about much, hours and hours of materials, many hbo specials, his audiobook lasted like 7 and a half hours, not to say his other material and tapes, one that actually made CK into who he is as a comedian, CK has half of Carlin's material.
Konicava 6 days ago
@tpstrat14 Not to say he sucks, actually he is in my opinion one of the funniest stand up comedians alive today, but you can't compare him to Carlin yet, Carlin is still the stand up comedy mastermind, then Hicks I believe who inspired Carlin also.
Konicava 6 days ago
@Konicava OK. I wasn't trying to start any argument. I just hope you know that there's a SHITLOAD of hilarious Louis CK youtube clips where he comes up with bits on the spot and WILL make you shit your pants. I guess if it's off the cuff, it doesn't count? Hmm....
tpstrat14 6 days ago
@Konicava Hey, I JUST found two new clips. One is Louis CK giving dating advice to some guy and the other is an interview where Louis had just had a vasectomy and admits it on air. This is the kind of new stuff I find every single day from this guy. lol I can't fucking believe you said his material is scarce. If there was one comic in the history of mankind whose comedy ISN'T scarce that would be Louis CK's....
tpstrat14 6 days ago
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@Konicava Hey, I JUST found two new clips. One is Louis CK giving dating advice to some guy and the other is an interview where Louis had just had a vasectomy and admits it on air. This is the kind of new stuff I find every single day from this guy. lol I can't fucking believe you said his material is scarce. If there was one comic in the history of mankind whose comedy ISN'T scarce that would be Louis CK's....
tpstrat14 6 days ago
Hey, who's the woman at the end?
MrBlazingFool 3 weeks ago
Comedy's great tragic genius. He could make you laugh, cry and think in a 3 minute bit. George Carlin was brilliant, but Lenny was the original and the greatest of the thinking man's comedians.
bailinnumberguy 1 month ago
"The first thing Hitler did was get rid of the comedians."-Eric Idle. RIP lenny Bruce they couldn't kill your spirit brother.
cattycakes64 1 month ago
Joe Rogan, Doug Stanhope.. who am I missing of the torch bearers, probably several more. The word is spreading =)
MrRenkie 1 month ago
fucking conservative fascist american government came down upon the poor man so hard that he died ....
MetrazolElectricity 3 months ago
wow
tamerkat 3 months ago
yes but dear Lenny didn't end up happy, wealthy and wise but lonely, destroyed and ravaged by drugs and a screwed up system that still exists today that showed him no mercy, RIP
cliffworks4321 3 months ago
People in suburbs like to talk a lot.
misestrelka 4 months ago
@misestrelka Yes, it's a sort of subconscious need to verbalize their worthiness of being alive, even though the father runs a slave factory and mom has her PTA and society for matrons of finer things, which include the stamping out of education on sex or on the fact there exists such a thing as a black man. Dirty consciences speak by way of meaningless talk, by way of talk shows, by way of 'reality' TV, by way of karaoke and dancing celebrity shows, lacking any culture, lacking any soul...
jgonzalezsolorio 3 months ago
I never used to think Lenny Bruce was funny either. It took me a while to gain some insight, but here it is: if you aren't paying attention you'll miss the funny bits. And you really are missing out.
msmwkc 5 months ago
Hicks, Lenny and Carlin - pure comedy gold
rude1987 5 months ago 81
@rude1987 Richard Pryor, too! :')
BenK8319 5 months ago 33
@rude1987 Don't forget Pryor.
Stefandurrr 4 months ago
@rude1987 Don't forget L. CK
Magnificoooooo 2 months ago
@rude1987 BILL HICKS!
DonRMB 2 months ago
can anyone tell me the name of the song that was played while he was performing this?
MrLiveForHope 5 months ago
I wish people still talked like this you know. They'd get all excited and the more exciting something was the faster they spoke and you could always understand what they were saying
thekingofnaruto 6 months ago
@Deanrants
Lenny Bruce was never funny.
Blahblobify 6 months ago
@Blahblobify He was the birth of free speech humor, Without him there is no Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, Steve Martin, In Living Color...think before you speak dumb-ass.
roadtraveler68 5 months ago
@roadtraveler68 i wish there was no eddie murphy!
florenciarob 2 weeks ago
@roadtraveler68 i wish there was no eddie murphy!
florenciarob 2 weeks ago
Joe Rogan
kmixxx101 6 months ago
"such a joy to be alone" - yes I agree wholeheartedly (with the qualification that as long as I don't have to listen to other people's damn noise). Mr. Bruce you are awesome!!! Now my favourite comediene!!! Definitely favorited!!!
cyphrinfinity 6 months ago
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nospeccatoribus 6 months ago
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nospeccatoribus 6 months ago
what year is this frrom?
gdynk 7 months ago
It's a terrible shame that the American SYSTEM killed this slightly beautiful man.
intherein 7 months ago
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nospeccatoribus 6 months ago
@intherein But we produced him, too.
dietrite123 6 months ago
@dietrite123 of course. USA is the no.1 Artist factory - but your system should stop killing your beautiful product.
intherein 5 months ago
@intherein In such places of denial, fascism behind the mask of 'patriotism' is where art has been perhaps the only lifeline, the reason perhaps more Columbines have not occurred. But a wind is felt right now, and it's not deniable, a change is here, and enough is enough...
jgonzalezsolorio 3 months ago
This brings tears to my eyes.
patriotismisevil 7 months ago
thx for posting this.
lennie is one of my personal prophets.
taffysaur 8 months ago
Hicks, Carlin, Bruce and Pryor, and maybe The Beatles too, are all I'll ever need.
CiaranHardie 8 months ago 4
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RoofFiddler 8 months ago
LEAVE LENNY BRUCE ALONE!
BuildBabylon 9 months ago
Oh baby where is my honey?
MatthewSforcina 9 months ago 2
Stupid bitch.
SoreWiggum 10 months ago
this is brilliant :)
FragileLittleAngel 10 months ago
the comics said, he took all the hits for freedom of speech he went through hell. and opened the door for the rest of them.
pinboyjorf 11 months ago 2
@c64c64c64 - Correction: Honey Bruce, aka Hot Honey Harlow Bruce. Google it, dumbshit.
kynandog 11 months ago
@kynandog
correction: i got a boner
c64c64c64 11 months ago
wow the 12 people who disliked this must be feeling pretty stupid now haha
ymk262 1 year ago
honorably discharged from the navy for wearing angora sweaters
stolenusername4 1 year ago
man he died on my birthday--never have celebrated it since
vivascargill 1 year ago 2
To allxsuccess. Why do you think he sucked?
konawilson6872 1 year ago
I don't get the big deal with this guy. Because I am a lifelong fan of good standup comedy and satire I decided to listen to lenny's albums and wow…this guy sucks harder than a Thai hooker. Lenny bruce wasn't arrested for indecency, he was arrested for wasting people's time. He was not funny and his satire sounds more like the ramblings of a retard. I only heard his work after watching the "Lenny" biopic with Dustin Hoffman, which was better than listening to anything the real lenny did.
allxsuccess 1 year ago
@allxsuccess
You are fucking stupid. You don't understand a damn thing. You should just shut the fuck up. Lenny is was and always shall be just about the greatest of all time. Nobody beats him.... YOU SUCK!
RogerBarrettLives 1 year ago
@allxsuccess ..your a peA brain....oh, and a FuckinG Idiot
russphilly 1 year ago
He looks like David Sedaris.
nealart 1 year ago
Does anyone know the date of this performance? It looks like his pre-strip club days when he was doing 'straight' stuff, but any further precision would be appreciated (doing research on it)
Gidwan 1 year ago
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AttackMyAss 1 year ago
Trying to get over my first breakup and this helps so much
syndemon 1 year ago
I had no idea he could also have been a lounge singer. Handsome guy.
TheRooster602 1 year ago 4
LMAO!!
clone63742 1 year ago
Has anyone else noticed that Martin Short looks just like Lenny Bruce?
Eproctophil 1 year ago
@Eproctophil yep
MultiDustremover 1 year ago
lenny <3
xxscarlettrigger 1 year ago
The majority of people are so much more interested in comfortable untruth rather than uncomfortable truth.
GG74K 1 year ago 4
What year was this made?
cadaverstiff 1 year ago
can never watch too much lenny at once these days...just gets me too emotional!
this man was a Modern Day Jesus! yea I said it! Although not entirely knowing it, he died for us all ...
Ostee1 1 year ago
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@Ostee1 - maybe he died for you but not for me - I don't want no drug addict dying for me.
Resenbrink 1 year ago
@Resenbrink You're a narrow-minded simpleton. I hope you break your leg and become addicted to lortabs.
Skizla 1 year ago 2
@Skizla - blah blah blah.
Resenbrink 1 year ago
The world I live in, and the world you live in looks at this as a moment in time. But this is fantastically brilliant. That's all I got.
cypheronyx 1 year ago 3
a person worthy of being considered a hero. he really tried to be true to himself. a very hard job at any time, and especially those days
tomosoos 1 year ago 6
So beautiful and tender and poignant. Ah Lenny, this world was not meant for you. You're somewhere else, in a better place, where you don't have to defend yourself and you're free to comment on humanity's hypocrisies all you want!
cutis1000 1 year ago
The mask of the classic clown...Lenny Bruce...comedy and tragedy in one human soul. The most powerful country on earth...authority couldn't tolerate one tiny insignificant human voice? a comedic one at that...simply because other Americans not only could but enjoyed the humor it contained who also saw value in their constitution...one that allowed "freedom of speech." How was it this one American was denied this right?
russocomedy 1 year ago 2
@russocomedy Seems to me that every debated issue ends up with a pioneer for the cause, who is intelligent enough to realize that change won't come until a grand stand is taken. These people are self sacrificing enough to put themselves forward knowing their sacrifice may not benefit them in the present, but those in the future. I count Kevorkian among the pioneers.
Much gratitude for the upload :-)
toadswildride 1 year ago
@russocomedy
Good point, sad times...thanks..I wish I could find a version of Lenny's bit about the "..half woman, half man..." from when he was a kid, and he went to 42nd St., and at the arcade, the freak show, was this person...so funny...maybe I can find it, I have a few of his LPs...Thanks Russo
tmdaninla 1 year ago
Brilliant...I know it sounds strange, but he reminds me of a more sober, alert, and clean-cut Thom Yorke...
theseanze 1 year ago
both a book and a stand up comedy express someone else's idea...whats one got that the other doesn't?
sabya23 1 year ago
Most books are fiction
even the historical ones
Comedians talk about whats going on now
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this reminds me of my last love, she was so special
TheycallmeMrBrown 1 year ago
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TheycallmeMrBrown 1 year ago
If this is not a perfect performance, then perfect performances do not exist.
LeLimeLine 1 year ago 32
wow bill hicks prity much covered this bit from lenny
foxofthenight 2 years ago
he stole the bit about the electric chair too..the idea that if jesus had been killed in the 20th century christians would be walking around with electric chairs on their necks..only he added a little saying can you imagine people paying tribute to kennedy by wearing little sniper rifles round their necks...
c64c64c64 2 years ago
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was that his wife at the end? i can see why he was so pissed. Shes fucking ugly, and annoyingly stupid, but at the end of the day, its better to be with someone you love than noone eh
c64c64c64 2 years ago
c64
she looks pretty good for someone who is probably sixty five by now She was probably a stunner when younger and what PRAY TELL did she say that was so "annoyingly stupid" the truth?
yes it can be annoying cant it?
ZEITGEISTism 2 years ago
@c64c64c64 - Vicious mean-hearted assholes like you deserve calling out. Kitty Bruce was one of the hottest pieces of ass to ever walk the streets of America. The closest you'll ever get to a broad as scorching and sensual as Kitty Bruce in her prime is the DVDs you whack your pud to. Your "annoyingly stupid" comment is pure projection of your own self-image. You're destined to die alone, and deservedly so.
kynandog 11 months ago
i listen to this every day. im so lonely. thank god for booz.
blaketrent 2 years ago
@blaketrentz: you can't drown your sorrows in alcohol bro because sorrows know how to swim.
clint0nify 2 years ago
@blaketrent i hear you (sounds dumb but you get my drift)
foxofthenight 2 years ago
blake typed this i dont drink booz. this is trent i go out and hangout with different people to forget about bad stuff and learn more things.
blaketrent 2 years ago
An original. Never been one like him since! This is beautiful!
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I don,t get why people think this guy is so funny. Jeff Dunham is the only really funny comedian.
kdixon7783B 2 years ago
^ what's wrong with America
iChesus 2 years ago 5
@iChesus Only a true Lenny Bruce fan (or a fan of logic at least) would have seen through my bullshit. I am a huge Bruce fan and I was trollin' with my last comment. A Jeff Dunham fan wouldn't have the ability to form basic sentence structure.
kdixon7783B 2 years ago
I love deep comedy with social commentary. It clears my head. It's like healthfood. I have a interest in life and the world around me, and I'm not afraid to be kicked mentally in the gut from time to time if it helps me realise something important and help me prospher as a person. But I also like to have a slize of pizza from time to time, and watch Jeff Dunham.
Wowbagger86 2 years ago
@Wowbagger86 I understand what you mean and I attribute this to your age. As you get older you will appreciate Lenny Bruce and the Bill Hicks even more and eat pizza a little less. Why does pizza have to be the metaphor, shit i'm from Jersey and I love pizza!
kdixon7783B 2 years ago 2
I really appreciate Bill Hicks, have a couple DVD's. I must admit I have seen more of him than Lenny Bruce though, but I like what I've seen so far. If you have recomandations of more good comedians please tell me :)
Lol, yeah it was a stupid metaphor. I was thinking about the horrible pizza's at hugh snackfood chains. I made a liar of myself there cause I actually hate those, especialy since I used to be a delivery boy ;) But I can imagine that a real fresh baked Jersey pizza is top knotch.
Wowbagger86 2 years ago
@Wowbagger86 Lewis Black, David Cross, and Patton Oswalt is what I can name off of the top of my head for good comedians in my opinion. As far as great pizza although it's really good in Jersey, it is not a tourist friendly state but if you ever vacation to NYC you will have a hard time finding a pizzeria that sucks. PEACE.
kdixon7783B 2 years ago
I'll chck them out, cheers! And even thoug Jersey might not have to many internationaly famous attracktions, at least that I have heard of, If there's hospitable people there I recon I would call it tourist friendly by my standards. It's a long journey for a pizza though, I could order it online perhaps but I fear it would get cold ;)
Wowbagger86 2 years ago
To add a comedian recommendation, I'd throw in Louis CK, since I think he's the best living comedian. Sadly, I don't know anyone out there who's like Hicks or Bruce anymore. CK, like them, is smart in addition to funny, but he doesn't have the umph to the same extent--he doesn't convey a strong point of view. But, man, he is hilarious.
Tzadeck 1 year ago 4
Cheers man, I'll check him out
Wowbagger86 1 year ago
I like Bill Maher. He has the same questioning look at the way the world is, and he's very funny and smart. Jon Stewart is also good when he does stand-up.
CK is good but there are many others that are just as good, and some that are better than him.
I LOVE Lenny Bruce. He is my favorite comedian of all time, and probably favorite person of all time. It is sad that he isn't very well known anymore. My parents did't even know who he was.
CandiedJester 1 year ago 2
@Tzadeck
Thanks for dropping info about Louis CK. I just watched a bunch of his stuff, and damn he's great. Can't believe I didn't know about him already.
SilvrDragon52 1 year ago
Glad to be of help! That guy can make me laugh a good deal. I personally like his HBO specials the best (Shameless and Chewed-up), but if you don't mind offensive stuff another good treat is a video of his on Youtube called: Louis CK standup clip at "Cinema Classics in NYC 8/3/04"
Tzadeck 1 year ago
@Tzadeck I would say Doug Stanhope is like Hicks and Bruce but leaning towards a more nihilistic take on the world. Still a great guy.
allthatisandeverwas 1 year ago
Watch out for PirateNews... It's the dawn of aquarius, biiiiiiaaatch.
Peace.
AirForceJuan3 2 years ago
im just a teenager.. but even I know that all this shit on T.V nowadays is garbage. When I watch the greats like Carlin and Bruce I can really relate to what they are saying. The world seems to make so much more sense...
Kizzymorgan 2 years ago 127
@Kizzymorgan You really think that lenny bruce is comedy? THat's pretty sad. He sucked!
allxsuccess 1 year ago
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jerryhello100 10 months ago
@Kizzymorgan every video older than 10 years has this comment on it with (insert media here) and (insert people loved by youtube community here), ITS BEEN DONE, FIND SOMETHING NEW TO SAY!
Aeromalerial 1 year ago
@Kizzymorgan - I was just listening to comic Mark Moran expound on getting boo'ed after mentioning The Grateful Dead. He made an excellent point. He's not even a Dead fan, but he went OFF on the booer for their ignorance, you don't have to like them to appreciate their achievements, if you can't you're fucking ignorant and need to STFU. Immediate gratification feeds ignorance, non-linear digital access have stripped youth of time awareness, and thus perspective of art's development.
kynandog 11 months ago
@Kizzymorgan
thats because you smoke crack!!! go watch the game of thrones
Filo011 9 months ago
@Kizzymorgan Don't worry, there are still great stand ups out there, but you won't see them on the tv. Check out Robert Newman's show A History Of Oil, Stewart Lee, Simon Munnery, Dylan Moran. Couple more but those are the ones I though of off the top of my head.
joeisaflyingfish 8 months ago 2
@Kizzymorgan You should check out Terence McKenna.
SeventhRisk 6 months ago
@Kizzymorgan I think everyone knows (or feel on some level) that its bullshit, but like in most cases, people don't care. It has bothered me for my whole life that in general, the majority of the population don't care about anything, as long as they are content with their current situation.
Deltidsgorilla 6 months ago
My first time watching Lenny Bruce and I am impressed.
Now I will watch the others to see why he was so harrassed and persecuted for exercising his freedom of speech.
Thanks for posting.
1atheist2 2 years ago
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when you're all alone and you don't mind it you're really with God because you're not really alone!
MrDouglasfairbanks 2 years ago
Brilliant man!
PolarBeamz 2 years ago
my first contact with real Lenny in movement
budmotor 2 years ago
All my life I'd heard about Lenny Bruce but this is the first thing of his I've ever seen. It's so fantastic and perfect that I'm reluctant to watch anything else!
Johnnyloo64 2 years ago
she could be so petty... sometimes I wish that she were dead.... but it would probably take her 3 hours to get ready.
*sigh*.. Lenny.. we miss ya man..
333maxwell 2 years ago 4
2 hours.
mklptrk 2 years ago
Fair enough..
I'd like to say 'well, the 3 is right next to the 2, so obviously I must of hit the wrong button'.. but of course who knows why I did what, at this point.
That being said, the line could of read 'it would of taken her 6 weeks to get ready' and have been just as poignant.. *G*
We still miss Lenny.. man o man, could we use him this year.
333maxwell 2 years ago
Haha, you're a good sport. I was just being a stickler. So many comments are mean-spirited on the YouTube (seriously, it's a goddamn jungle on here, watch what you say), mine wasn't meant to be. We are in agreement, though. Miss this guy. A great and twisted mind.
mklptrk 2 years ago
beautifully done
retrospex 2 years ago 2
RIP Lenny
americaneyes1 2 years ago
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samSOURS5000 2 years ago
inspirational.
TonyBtheEG 2 years ago 4
You can tell this man is highly intelligent.
FeelOfFriction 2 years ago 13
Such a fucking genius......
wizewizard2000 2 years ago 7
Lenny was a genius.
Every comic who got a quick laugh by using profanity owes him a debt.
witchman67 2 years ago 5
I never realised he could hold a tune. I should have guessed - the guy used his voice like a musical instrument, the rhythm and pace of his delivery. A class act. He wasted much of his talent later on, of course, but when you catch footage of him on top form, he's unsurpassed.
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mearte 2 years ago
I never knew this side of Lenny. We always heard about his swearing and ground breaking comedy. Who knew he could be like this?
2degucitas 2 years ago 3
We love you Lenny
1human 2 years ago 6
dude show some respect, this guy protected freedoom of speech.
najs94 2 years ago 96
what freedom ?
boredandwise 2 years ago
freedom of speech, but don't worry about it, that's long gone, but you didn't notice, did ya?
kmoney100b 2 years ago 7
of speech ? freedom of speech ? this must be a joke on mythological creatures thought to have existed lol .
boredandwise 2 years ago
@najs94 Read the biography "The Trials Of Lenny Bruce" by .... I can't remember. You'll see that he was no hero of free speech, just a poor sap who wanted his work card back .... that's all, and the police wouldn't give it back. He was cheated by the culture and the courts, unduly picked on.
deanbigstar 1 year ago 2
@deanbigstar
His autobiography, "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People" says essentially the same thing. He openly admits that he would rather have been working steady than attending court.
thegirl44 1 year ago
@najs94 I hope that's all he's known for because he was NOT funny. Several great and established comics have gone on record to say that lenny bruce sucked.
allxsuccess 1 year ago
@allxsuccess
so what did the top comedians say?
MothRoom 1 year ago
@allxsuccess - Name all of them.
kynandog 11 months ago
proof thought criminals are taken out
stevensonjames26 3 years ago 2
what documentary was this from? I saw it once and it was great but Youtube took it off.
theopenmikers 3 years ago
It's from Lenny Bruce - Without Tears.
You can get it on DVD as part of Ladies and Gentlemen... Lenny Bruce. It's an anthology DVD and also contains the Lenny Bruce Performance Film, Thank You Mask Man and the BBC Radio 2 documentary Lenny Bruce is Dead. I've got the anthology and it's very good. Supposedly, however, the Region 1 DVD of Without Tears is a bit dodgy but I've only read that once and I've never watched it.
ciarannn 2 years ago
wow the man that inspired Richard Pryor
wingchundragon 3 years ago
And almost anyone else.
Lenny Bruce will live forever. I wish there was more to enjoy... what a magnificent mind.
terramortim 3 years ago
Lenny Bruce's story is one of the saddest in history. The American Government used the law to kill him. And for what?? Bad Words. Pathetic.
jkoff76 3 years ago 17
What a performer. Why is it that the most brilliant people get involved with drugs? I think that they see the world more realistically, and therefore they get discontent. George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, John Lennon, Richard Prior, to name a few.
numerrita 3 years ago
Jimi Hendrix, Bill Hicks, The Beatles, The Stones, The Doors all on the drugs...
Drugs don't make you brilliant but they do have their uses. You stated they needed to get away from reality, maybe they just wanted a different perspective ;-)
Long live my own right to self imposed ill health, decreed by a country I found in the near to distant future...
LuckyLukarse1981 3 years ago 22
Drugs can open doors creativity as well, the key is to keep it judicious.
FeelOfFriction 2 years ago 25
Lenny was a hipster, and a comic. Carlin stoled liberally from Lenny as well as from Murray Roman. Part of the reason some of you don't find him funny is a lot of the material is very specific to a certain time in America, a period piece.
bokadude 3 years ago 3
stoled? i can see you're intelligent
lithium687 3 years ago
e and d are right beside each other on the keyboard.. if you thought for a second about it you might have relised.
retard.
pinje 3 years ago
what the fuck are you talking about? was i talking to you? and "relised" ?? learn english you dumb fucking idiot
lithium687 3 years ago
oh, sorry spell checker. fancy spell checking yer life? you complete fanny. use yer noggin u fuckin tit
pinje 3 years ago
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no...i dont need spell checker to know how to spell the word, "realize"...but i have an IQ higher than a 2nd grader...unlike you...you fucking imbecile...please just die already...you are contributing nothing to society
lithium687 3 years ago
I work for oxfam and have a degree. STFU. Moron. Spell check yo self. DICK.
pinje 3 years ago
"spell check yo self" hmmm...yeah, you sound real intelligent...where did you get your degree? clownshoe university?
lithium687 3 years ago
real mature. youtube comedy you are. why don't you stop monitoring? because you can't and you are addicted to youtube. am i right? yes i would have thought so. yeah as for that comment on university. one of the best in the uk. now go fap over youtube comments. so what i have intellectual laziness tbh why does it matter that every word i spell is correct. care bus please.
pinje 3 years ago
i have an idea...lets put all your comments together...and maybe then they might make some actual sense...
e and d are right beside each other on the keyboard.. if you thought for a second about it you might have relised.
retard.
oh, sorry spell checker. fancy spell checking yer life? you complete fanny. use yer noggin u fuckin tit
I work for oxfam and have a degree. STFU. Moron. Spell check yo self. DICK.
NOPE...THEY STILL DONT...sorry
lithium687 3 years ago
Get laid. Does that make sense to you?
You are a freak.
pinje 3 years ago