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Reuters
November 17, 2008
Not since Lenny Bruce has a comedian managed to get laughs with a comic take on the motivation of Adolf Hitler, but Gervais does it, makes his points and ...
Huffington Post
November 15, 2008
... Playboy parties mingling with Sammy Davis Jr., Lenny Bruce and of course, bunnies, and a bell-bottomed love-in (though I'm thinking he'd find time to ...
Denver Post
November 15, 2008
OK, think about Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman and Flight of the Conchords. Wenzel will talk and sign the book at 7:30 pm Friday at Tattered Cover Colfax. ...
Village Voice
November 13, 2008
As a meditation on the idea of last-ness, the group mashes up a bevy of source materials, including Lenny Bruce's final routine and Scorcese's The Last ...
New York Magazine
November 12, 2008
-Adam Schatz of Previously on Lost would ask that you not pigeonhole them [WP] "Stand-up comedy is all about people like Lenny Bruce - they made it possible ...
WLFI.com
November 12, 2008
Lenny Bruce said I don't have an original idea. It's interesting how it happens that art is an evolutionary process," explained Thomas. ...
Walrus Magazine
November 12, 2008
He widens the pantheon to include singer Eddie Cantor,
Comedians Jerry Lewis and
Lenny Bruce, and social critic Abbie Hoffman. Of late, however, these wild ...
Village Voice
November 12, 2008
This hermeneutic curio evokes Grove Press, Kafka-cum-Lenny Bruce persecution anxiety, Jean Tinguely demolitions-a harsh, subterranean avant-gardism. ...
fairfieldweekly.com
November 12, 2008
Do iconoclastic performers like the late
Lenny Bruce, George Carlin or Richard Pryor turn you off? I think they were great. Comedy is like
music: A lot of ...
Journal Inquirer
November 11, 2008
... and I" on his list of the top 12 comedy albums of all time, placing it with the likes of those by George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, and the Smothers Brothers. ...
OfficialWire
November 10, 2008
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring considers herself an Outsider Artist (of Ink), a bargain-basement cross between Sylvia Plath, Erma Bombeck and Lenny Bruce. ...
New York Times
November 10, 2008
The re-creation of
Lenny Bruce's last performance by Karen Christopher; the reconstructions of the Hagia Sophia in
Istanbul, both imaginative and, ...
New York Times
November 9, 2008
The re-creation of
Lenny Bruce's last performance by Karen Christopher; the reconstructions of the Hagia Sophia in
Istanbul, both imaginative and, ...
Boston Globe
November 9, 2008
... and I" on his list of the top 12 comedy albums of all time, placing it with the likes of those by George Carlin, Lenny Bruce and the Smothers Brothers. ...
Jewish Quarterly
November 6, 2008
(Larry David) The late
Lenny Bruce famously defined '
Jewish' as anything edgy, ethnic, urban and subversive, despite its origins. Dylan Thomas: Jewish. ...
New York Times
November 6, 2008
... Kings of Comedy," Mr. Mac showed he could wring more laughs and more insight out of a single obscenity than anyone since the heyday of Lenny Bruce. ...
Jewish Quarterly
November 6, 2008
(
Lenny Bruce) 'I hope the
Jews did kill Christ. I'd do it again. I'd fucking do it again - in a second' (Sarah Silverman) Self-deprecation can also be a ...
guardian.co.uk
November 6, 2008
His
heroes were PG Wodehouse, Morecambe and Wise and the Beatles; less
Lenny Bruce and more Bruce Forsyth. "I never tried to change attitudes," he says. ...
Time Out New York
November 5, 2008
Included are short scenes chronicling final moments-onstage, in life or in writing-by performers who channel figures like Lenny Bruce, Emily Brontë, ...
Filmcritic.com
November 5, 2008
... his last movie (which looks here like it's supposed to be his 1974 Lenny Bruce film, Lenny) and we see his open heart surgery - not a pretty sight. ...
Times Online
November 3, 2008
... Times cartoonist Peter Brookes selects some of his favourite works Hours after Kennedy was shot, Lenny Bruce walked on stage in a New York nightclub. ...
Broadway World
November 3, 2008
Of Lenny Bruce, Smile says, "I used to come home from doing bad gigs, and to cheer myself up I used to listen to my Lenny Bruce albums - particularly the ...
Irish Independent
November 2, 2008
Barry Egan recalls a breakfast date By BARRY EGAN
Lenny Bruce held the view that bombs and
wars were far more offensive than words -- however rude, ...
phillyBurbs.com
November 1, 2008
And Chase Utley evidently borrowed one word from the late comedian Lenny Bruce, known for his blue language. "I didn't expect either one," said David ...
DesMoinesRegister.com
October 31, 2008
He can ad lib with the rapid-fire speed of Robin Williams, and add in the social commentary bite of Lenny Bruce. On the radio recently, Miller commented ...
The Wichita Eagle
October 31, 2008
Foxx had built his
career in the 1950s and '60s through his ribald "party records," which, like the recordings of
Lenny Bruce, challenged the accepted ...
Southtown Star
October 31, 2008
Within Hispanic communities, Rodriguez is considered to be the Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin when it comes to original comedy. ...
Black and White
October 29, 2008
Somehow, when we least expected it, the politically barbed satire of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin was supplanted by a banjo-strumming "rambling man" who ...
BlackBook Magazine
October 29, 2008
... at Lenny Bruce's memorial in Judson Church), I was deeply disappointed that he couldn't produce Dylan for me and I ended up turning my back on him. 4. ...
Premiere Magazine
October 29, 2008
In Delirious and Raw, you dropped enough F bombs to make Lenny Bruce rise from the dead. You also made 48 Hours, Trading Places, and Coming to America. ...
Scripps News
October 29, 2008
Foxx had built his
career in the 1950s and '60s through his ribald "party records," which, like the recordings of
Lenny Bruce, challenged the accepted ...
Times Online
October 28, 2008
Lenny Bruce drew plenty. But there is a wide
gulf between comedy and malice. The problem with the prank played on the actor Andrew Sachs by Russell Brand ...
New York Times Blogs
October 27, 2008
By Corey Kilgannon Lenny Bruce may be gone but his irreverent brand of comedy lives on every Wednesday and Thursday night in the basement of the Yippie ...
guardian.co.uk
October 25, 2008
Jay had got bored of running the Crystal Palace, a nightclub where
Lenny Bruce,
Woody Allen and Barbra Streisand performed. Fran was writing song
lyrics and ...
Irish Independent
October 25, 2008
Often cited, after Lenny Bruce, as the most gifted stand-up comedian of his generation, Richard Pryor started out as a rather tame TV comic who found his ...
guardian.co.uk
October 25, 2008
"Yeah, we killed Christ, the
Jews killed him," said
Lenny Bruce. "And if he comes back, we'll kill him again." Or, in a later variant, attributed to the ...
OfficialWire
October 25, 2008
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring considers herself an Outsider Artist (of Ink), a bargain-basement cross between Sylvia Plath, Erma Bombeck and Lenny Bruce. ...
OfficialWire (press release)
October 25, 2008
Boleman-Herring, who calls herself "an Outsider Artist (of Ink), a bargain-basement cross between Sylvia Plath and Lenny Bruce," has been writing ...
The Daily Collegian Online
October 24, 2008
By Kyle Wall Back in the era of Richard Pryor,
Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, stand-up
Comedians typically stuck to wry observations on everyday life, ...
Chicago Sun-Times
October 24, 2008
The frank candor of her improvisational shows has ruffled more than a few feathers, earning her the reputation of a modern day Lenny Bruce. ...
