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Lenny Bruce
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American comedian and social critic (1925–1966)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 15
Top works
- How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
- The sick humor of Lenny Bruce
- Lenny Bruce--American
- Interviews of our times
- Cómo ser grosero e influir en los demás Memorias de un bocazas
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Film & TV
Acting · Mineola, New York, USA
Leonard Alfred Schneider, better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. Branded a "sick comic", Bruce was essentially blacklisted from television, and when he did appear these performances was…
Known for
- Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film — Himself (archival footage)2023
- The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive)2017
- The Last Laugh — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2016
- From Straight to Bizarre — Self2012
- Looking for Lenny — Self (archive footage)2011
- The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts — Self (archive footage)2009
- Starz Inside: In the Gutter — Self (archive)2008
- Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth — Self (archive footage)1998
- But... Seriously — Self (archive footage)1994
- Death Scenes 2 — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1992
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1949-09-23
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 26,754
- Total plays
- 233,274
Tags
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider in Mineola, New York, was an extremely influential and controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s, whose comedy revolved heavily around the social stigmas and taboos of the era in which he lived. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in New York state history. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lenny+Bruce">Rea
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,416x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,974x
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 16,340x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,052x
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Quotes
- “You can't put tits and ass on the marquee!...Why not?...Because it's dirty and vulgar, that's why not!... Titties are dirty and vulgar?...Okay, we'll compromise. How about Latin? Gluteus maximus, pectoralis majors nightly...That's alright, that's clean, class with ass, I'll buy it...Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!”
- “The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.”
- “I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.”
- “I want to perform an unnatural act.”
- “A Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as a descendant from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary, but you and I know what a Jew is: One Who Killed Our Lord... there should be a statute of limitations for that crime.”
- “I was arrested for using a ten-letter word that began with ‘c,’ and I would marry no woman who was not one.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Leonard Alfred Schneider , ( 1925-10-13 ) October 13, 1925, Mineola, New York , U.S.
- Died
- August 3, 1966 (1966-08-03) (aged 40), Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Resting place
- Eden Memorial Park Cemetery
- Occupations
- Comedian satirist social critic
- Years active
- 1947–1966
- Spouse
- Honey Bruce ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1957 )
- Relatives
- Sally Marr (mother)
- Notable work
- The Lenny Bruce Originals The Carnegie Hall Concert Let the Buyer Beware How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
- Medium
- Stand-up television books
- Genres
- Satire political satire black comedy blue comedy
- Subjects
- American culture American politics race relations religion sexuality obscenity
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Encyclopedic overview
Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy that combined satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon in 2003.
Bruce forged new paths in comedy and counterculture. His trial for obscenity was a landmark of freedom of speech in the United States. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Bruce third, behind Richard Pryor and George Carlin, on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
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