Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce was not "ha-ha" funny. But what Lenny Bruce was trying to do was show how uptight and hypocritcal 1950's society was. A society that felt it was OK to lynch black people, but not OK to say fuck or talk about sexuality and other such things. And this was seen as having "good old fashioned family values". But Lnny Bruce showed that it was all a bunch of bullshit and it took him becoming a martyr for it to get through to people.

Is this whole performance available somewhere?

me too!

ebayer201: *valley girl* like Jesus did!

but seriously, the man is a martyr.

One of the jokes that opened eyes was..

son: Dad, what is a degenerate bastard?

dad: Shut up and keep sucking!


Didn't take too long for him to start getting locked up, so others in the future, wouldn't.

The man is great

Got that right dude. I first found Lenny on Radio Geronimo in '62, man he was scary and fearless, check out Goldman's book 'Ladies & Gentlemen ... Lenny Bruce'. LB was so burning the Brit government banned him when Peter Cook tried to get him to the UK for The Establishment Club.
A lot of kids don't realise we were all suffering Victorian values back then. (Like That went away?)

Not funny.

Bill Hicks & Sam Kinison