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	The Lenny Bruce FBI File
		This martyr-like quality often associated and adorned on Lenny and his life conveniently overshadows the flaws and imperfections of his personality, such as his unfair treatment of women or the fact that he would often turn his friends to police to free himself from drug charges.
		Lenny revolutionized the comedy scene by striping away the superficial banality and willingly standing naked before audiences exposing his thoughts and ideas.
		The work of Lenny Bruce has stood the test of time and is waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation.
	www.fadetoblack.com /foi/lennybruce (303 words)

	Lenny Bruce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s.
		Bruce was sentenced on December 21, 1964, to four months in the workhouse; he was set free on bail during the appeals process and died before the appeal was decided.
		Bruce was survived by his daughter, Kitty Bruce, who resides in Pennsylvania as of the 2000s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lenny_Bruce (1778 words)

	Lenny Bruce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lenny's early career including writing the screenplays for "Dance Hall Racket" 1953 (which featured Lenny and his wife,, in roles); "Dream Follies" 1954, a low-budget burlesque romp; and a children's film, "The Rocket Man" 1954.
		Lenny Bruce and club owner were convicted, in spite of positive testimony and petitions of support from Jules Feiffer, Norman Mailer, William Styron, and James Baldwin as well as Manhattan socialite Dorothy Kilgallen and sociologist.
		Bruce was sentenced to four months in the workhouse; he was set free on bail during the appeals process and died before the appeal was decided.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Lenny_Bruce (918 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Bruce was one of the first performers to usher in the new, more honest, more permissive, and more indulgent brand of American art.
		Bruce was prevented from working and in his later years he became addicted to heroin.
		Bruce is portrayed as a martyr for freedom of speech.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/bruce_lenny.html (646 words)

	Lenny Bruce St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Bruce's very early career was doing conventional comedy routines in the "Borscht Belt"--the Jewish area of the Catskills where many (Jewish) comedians, such as Danny Kaye and Jerry Lewis, got their start; he also did comedy routines in strip clubs.
		Bruce started developing his own notable style, which not only included the "obscenities" he is often remembered for, but also a running social commentary told in fast-paced, personally-based monologues that used various accents and voices to emphasize his pointed style.
		Bruce often told the story about how people said they were horrified by his common "threat" to urinate on his audience, but when he would not do it people would complain and ask for their money back.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200145 (857 words)

	Lenny Bruce - Biography - AOL Music
		Lenny changed the whole ballgame; no longer would comics have to come out in a cute little suit and tell cute little mother-in-law jokes or feel like they were 'working dirty' if they talked openly about sex and other taboo subjects.
		Bruce was a brilliant satirist and the object of his early pieces was quite often show business itself, clearly a signal that he was more than willing to bite the hand that was feeding him.
		As Lenny kept testing the boundaries of what could be talked about on a stage, other comics heard his basic message and rethought their entire game plan.
	music.aol.com /artist/lenny-bruce/132/biography (931 words)

	The Trials of Lenny Bruce: Pardon Lenny Bruce!
		Ronald Collins is the co-author (with David Skover) of The Trials of Lenny Bruce (Sourcebooks, 2002) and the lead petitioner in the campaign to pardon Lenny Bruce.
		It is therefore fitting that it should stand firm in its commitment to artistic freedom and in its opposition to censorship born in a fear of the unorthodox.
		By posthumously pardoning Lenny Bruce, the State of New York declares to the world that it is a safe harbor of liberty for creative minds of all viewpoints.
	www.law.seattleu.edu /fachome/skover/trialsoflennybruce/newsday.htm (786 words)

	Pot Culture \| 1925-66 \| Lenny Bruce
		Lenny was busted half a dozen times in the US between 1961 and 63, for possession and obscenity; banned from Australia and the UK; bankrupted in 1965 and finally dead the following year.
		Lenny stood up for humanity and against hypocrisy; he wasn't afraid to tell it like it is. Like he said, apropos 'niggers': "the word's suppression gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness".
		Lenny told the lousy truth and he told it in the salty language of the avenues and alleyways and they hated him for it.
	www.ukcia.org /potculture/61/lenny.html (930 words)

	'Buyer Beware' is a lesson in the life of Lenny Bruce - The Boston Globe
		Bruce was hip, and the idea of "hipness" -- of a heavy-lidded, possibly opiated poise that regulates outside interference and at the same time expresses its own deepest truths with a minimum of effort -- has all but evaporated.
		On the other hand, every comic who ever used a four-letter word on his or her HBO special is in his debt, because Bruce fought tooth and nail against the attempt to shut him down.
		"Lenny Bruce stands up against all limitations on the flesh and spirit, and someday they are going to crush him for it," predicted the (New York) Post in 1964, and the only inaccuracy was the word "someday." A year later Bruce was declared bankrupt, and a year after that he was dead.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/09/12/buyer_beware_is_a_lesson_in_the_life_of_lenny_bruce (974 words)

	CNN.com - Lenny Bruce granted posthumous pardon - Dec. 24, 2003
		CNN's Aaron Brown reports on the posthumous pardon of pioneering comedian Lenny Bruce for a nearly 40-year-old obscenity conviction.
		Kitty Bruce, Bruce's 48-year-old daughter, said she was overwhelmed by the news.
		On November 4, 1964, Bruce was convicted by a Manhattan court of "word crimes" committed in the spring of that year during three stand-up routines at the Cafe Au Go Go.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/12/24/bruce.pardon/index.html (779 words)

	Lenny Bruce
		Bruce appeared on the Arthur Godfrey Show and drew national attention with his daring style of satire, in which he probed taboo subjects such as racial fears, sexual fantasies, Jewish-Christian tensions, and presidents.
		Bruce was married to her until their divorce in 1957.
		In 1961 Bruce was imprisoned on obscenity charges and in 1963 he was refused permission to enter Britain.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /lbruce.htm (1201 words)

	Bruce, Lenny - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Consequently, Bruce was at various times arrested and forbidden to perform; in 1964 he was convicted of obscenity charges stemming from a New York City performance.
		After his death Bruce became a cult figure, considered by many to be a martyr to the cause of free speech.
		Lenny, a musical based on his life and including much of his comic material, was a hit on Broadway in 1971.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Bruce-L1e.asp (451 words)

	(DV) Jezer: Lenny Bruce's Belated Pardon
		Lenny Bruce was one of the great comedians of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
		As a fan of both Lenny Bruce and Abbie Hoffman, I believe we’re all degraded by the gratuitous use of “dirty words.” If Lenny Bruce were alive today, he’d be satirizing the promiscuous profanity that’s become commonplace.
		Lenny Bruce’s pardon is being described as a “victory for free speech.” Some victory.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles9/Jezer_Lenny-Bruce.htm (902 words)

	LENNY BRUCE: THE MAN WHO SAID TOO MUCH
		In the late '50s and early '60s, while most stand-up comics were reciting jokes on such subjects as mothers-in-law, Bruce was exploring the satirical implications of nuclear testing, racism, illegal drugs, homophobia, back-alley abortions and the death penalty.
		When I first interviewed Lenny in 1959, he said that the role of a comedian was to get a laugh every 15 to 25 seconds.
		Actually, Lenny Bruce served as a pioneer of free comedic speech, opening doors for the current plethora of young performers whose abuse of that freedom would undoubtedly offend Lenny.
	www.worldfreeinternet.net /news/nws8.htm (1027 words)

	Lenny Bruce biography, Lenny Bruce quote, Lenny Bruce dead
		Lenny Bruce – born October 13, 1925, died August 3, 1966 – may not have invented stand-up comedy, but as far as Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Sam Kinison, Bill Hicks, and any number of outrageous, on-the-edge comedians are concerned, he was the originator of their version of the genre.
		Bruce was sentenced to four months in the workhouse, but he was set free on bail during the appeals process and died before the appeal could be decided.
		In August 1966, Bruce died from what is presumed to have been a morphine overdose; cause of death was never officially determined, but he was lying naked in the bathroom with his pants around his ankles and a syringe not far away, with no sign of foul play, so, y’know, you do the math.
	www.bullz-eye.com /entertainment/standup_hof/lenny_bruce.htm (1212 words)

	Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz * Lenny Bruce (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bruce's assertion that a Jew is "One Who Killed Our Lord" and then his quip that he, his family is responsible reminds Jews of the legacy of Christian, European anti-semitism.
		Bruce counters the initial definition of a Jew with an absurd admission of guilt by "Morty" who found a note in his basement that reads "We killed him." Because Christ didn't want to become a doctor, Bruce reveals, the Jews killed him.
		Lenny Bruce is also regarded as one of the heros of free speech.
	www.reed.edu /~hurvitza/lennybruceinfo.html (493 words)

	Lenny Bruce + Rudolf Virchow
		It was on this date, October 13, 1925, that American comedian Lenny Bruce was born Leonard Alfred Schneider on Long Island, New York.
		Lenny Bruce came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s with his edgy, penetrating satire on taboo subjects such as racial fears, sexual fantasies, and, of course, religion.
		Bruce's autobiography, suggested by supporter and Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, and called How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (1965), inspired a play and a 1974 film.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/1013b-almanac.htm (671 words)

	CNN.com - Lenny Bruce granted posthumous pardon - Dec. 23, 2003
		Comedian Lenny Bruce was granted a posthumous pardon by Gov. George Pataki Tuesday for a nearly 40-year-old obscenity conviction prompted by a foul-mouthed political commentary.
		Bruce mishandled his own appeal, and, beset by legal and financial problems, died of a drug overdose in 1966 with the conviction still on the books.
		While Bruce was considered a pariah by some in the '60s, he's generally viewed now as a performer who totally changed the stand-up comedy business.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/12/23/bruce.pardon.ap (358 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Who Was Lenny Bruce?
		Lenny Bruce, born Leonard Alfred Schneider on Long Island in 1925, was a high school dropout and a failed con artist who was performing in burlesque clubs when he began to gain a reputation for his edgy acts.
		During a 1966 interview with the journalist Nat Hentoff, Bruce slumped in his chair, a trench coat failing to hide the weight he had gained, his eyes hung with heavy bags, He was barely able to drag a phrase of out his dusty mind.
		Lenny Bruce has posthumously been regarded as a trailblazer who was wrongly prosecuted.
	www.americanheritage.com /people/articles/web/20051221-lenny-bruce-stand-up-comedy-comedian-heroin-obscenity-first-amendment-allen-ginsberg.shtml (1056 words)

	The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce
		Lenny Bruce lampooned hypocrisy, yet he avoided the earnest fervor that dulls the teeth of much would-be biting humor.
		Bruce may have occasionally lapsed into sermonizing, but he was not pious.
		Bruce was a consummate mimic who spent many hours fiddling with tape from his on-stage routines.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/1226-01.htm (906 words)

	The Persecution of Lenny Bruce - James Campion
		Thirty-seven years ago, Lenny Bruce, comedic talent, potty mouth, satirist, contrarian, blasphemer and grandstand martyr for the first amendment died in relative poverty, a broken and hounded victim of free expression.
		"Lenny Bruce sacrificed his career, his fortune, his very life for the American principle of freedom of speech," Skover, a law professor at Seattle University, told me on a recent visit to New York.
		Ironically, we are on the precipice of an era not unlike the late 50s', early 60s', when Lenny Bruce burst on the cultural scene.
	www.jamescampion.com /cheklenny.html (952 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| The comedy master turned martyr
		"Lenny Bruce's legacy is freedom of speech and telling it as it is, getting your life and putting it out on the table, telling everyone about it," comedian and actor Eddie Izzard told BBC Radio Two's documentary Lenny Bruce is Dead.
		Bruce's unprecedented provocative material, not to mention his frequent use of expletives, drew the authorities' attention and led to repeated arrests and his eventual conviction for obscenity.
		The 1974 biopic Lenny, in which Bruce was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, was nominated for six Academy Awards.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/5241370.stm (973 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - Lenny Bruce Profile
		Bruce drew a lot of popular attention to himself, but police officers began to form less appreciative groups of his audience.
		Before long, he had been arrested in almost every city he played, was once deported from England before he'd reached the baggage hall, and had become the target of an establishment, determined to avenge his perceived "vulgarity" and "word crimes".
		Although his conviction was later quashed, Bruce's friends cited this final showdown as the day the comic lost his own sense of humour.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/features/lenny-bruce-profile.shtml (405 words)

	Lenny Bruce, in His Own Words, a CurtainUp review
		Lenny Bruce, who forty years after his death from a drug overdose is still hailed as one of the most controversial and influential American stand-up comedians, would have loved the funky Zipper theater.
		But Bruce would be a lot less smitten with Joan Worth and Alan Sacks' concept for a show to bring back memories of his work to Brucephiles and at the same time introduce him to younger audiences to whom he's just a name.
		Given Bruce's twenty-years of outrageous commentary and routines that often got him into trouble with the law plus the fact that the comedic style he originated is still being fine tuned by the likes of Jon Stewart and Bill Maher, Lenny Bruce, In His Own Words sounded like one of those more promising solo ventures.
	www.curtainup.com /lennybruce.html (762 words)

	Bob Dylan: Lenny Bruce
		Lenny Bruce is gone but his spirit's livin' on and on.
		Lenny Bruce moved on and like the ones that killed him, gone.
		Lenny Bruce was bad, he was the brother that you never had.
	www.bobdylan.com /songs/lenny.html (232 words)

	NPR : 'The Trials of Lenny Bruce'
		Lenny Bruce takes the stand in his 1962 obscenity trial in San Francisco.
		Bruce was a tireless defender of free speech and the First Amendment, Collins says.
		Bruce also was also an amateur lawyer who tried to defend himself in court and paid heavily for defying authority.
	www.npr.org /display_pages/features/feature_920569.html (499 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		Pataki may not share the view of a Washington Post editorial on Bruce's death: "Lenny Bruce believed in free speech with a passion that was often masked by the jokes he told.
		In one of his "bits" that was a factor in Bruce's arrests in some cities, Christ and Moses, having returned to earth, are standing at the rear of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
		By far the most comprehensive and accurate chronicle of the debt owed to Bruce's liberation of comedy by such performers as George Carlin, Richard Pryor and now Chris Rock is a current book, "The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon" (published by Sourcebooks; available in bookstores and from Amazon.com).
	www.opinionjournal.com /la/?id=110003554 (866 words)

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