Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) - Leonard Alfred Schneider American stand-up comedian and brilliant satirist, who created much controversy in his time due to his use of so-called 'dirty words' in his nightclub comedy act. The black humor of Bruce's largely improvised shows often overstepped the bounds of what was considered in the 1950s and 1960s respectable. Bruce's performances, his fresh and daring way of breaking rules, influenced such comedians as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Robin Williams. "Children ought to watch pornographic movies : it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood." (from How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, 1965) Leonard Alfred Schneider (Lenny Bruce) was born in New York. "To me, if you live in New York or any other big city, you are Jewish, he once said. " It doesn't matter even if you're Catholic; if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish if you're Jewish." When Bruce was five his parents divorced and he was brought up by relatives. During World War II he served in the Navy on the U. S. S. Brooklyn, a light cruiser, and was discharged in 1946. After spending some time in odd jobs, he moved to Hollywood to study acting. In 1947 he changed his name to Bruce, because "Leonard Alfred Schneider sounded too Hollywood." The fifties was the breakthrough decade for Bruce and such comedians as Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Mort Sahl, who were all Jewish, with their own vision of ethnicity. Their humor evoked a response among young Bohemians and college-educated people. Bruce worked as a night-club performer in Brooklyn and Baltimore, where he met a striptease dancer, who worked under the name Hot Honey Harlowe. She was born Harriett Jolliff in 1927. Harlowe had ran away from home in her teens and spent also some time in jail. "Honey and I just stared at each other and got hot," Bruce later said. They married in 1951. Bruce 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. "I really dig what they do with a homosexual in this country. They put him into a prison with a lot of other men. That's a really good punishment." Bruce imagined Hitler in show business and stewardesses jettisoning infants from overloaded airliners, betraying at the same time a schooling in the Catskills resorts. The black sheep among salon tyros and young comics, such as Joe E. Lewis, Buddy Hackett, Alan King, Bruce played to intellectuals, wearing jeans, not tuxedo. His wit and inimitable frankness won him an admiring audience and made his act celebrated in liberal literary circles. In 1961 Bruce was imprisoned on obscenity charges and in 1963 he was refused permission to enter Britain. "The comic, Lenny Bruce, was booed offstage in England," claimed the controversial radio journalist Walter Winchell. Eventually Bruce's show was banned both in England and Australia. In spite of pressures, Bruce refused to clean up his language. "All my humour is based on destruction and despair," he said. "If the whole world were tranquil, I'd be standing in the breadline, right back of J. Edgar Hoover." (from The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. by J. Cohen, 1970) In 1964 Bruce was convicted of giving obscene performances at the Cafe au Go Go in Greenwich Village. When he was arrested by the police in April 1964, Norman Mailer, James Jones and other prominent writers and intellectuals defended him as a social satirist "in the tradition of Swift, Rabelais and Twain." In his later years Bruce became addicted to heroin. In 1963 he was found guilty of illegal possession of drugs. Bruce died of an overdose on August 3, 1966, in his home on Hollywood Boulevard. He was 40 years old. "Lenny Bruce is dead but he didn't commit any crime He just had the insight to rip off the lid before its time. I rode with him in a taxi once, only for a mile and a half, Seemed like it took a couple of months. Lenny Bruce moved on and like the ones that killed him, gone." (Bob Dylan in 'Lenny Bruce', from Shot of Love, 1983) Acredited to Lenny Bruce: A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know. Lenny Bruce Communism is like one big phone company. Lenny Bruce Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Lenny Bruce I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. Lenny Bruce I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up. Lenny Bruce I'll die young, but it's like kissing God. Lenny Bruce If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. Lenny Bruce If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone. Lenny Bruce In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. Lenny Bruce Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. Lenny Bruce Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. Lenny Bruce The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is. Lenny Bruce The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. Lenny Bruce The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't. Lenny Bruce The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter. Lenny Bruce The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. Lenny Bruce There are never enough I Love You's. Lenny Bruce When you're eight years old nothing is your business. Lenny Bruce Title Artist Album Genre ------------------------------------------------------------------- Berkeley Concert Lenny Bruce Berkley Concert Comedy Christ & Moses Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Cop, Flashlights & Bottles Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Drugs Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Entrapment By Cops Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy How To Relax Colored People Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Imprisonment Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Infidelity Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Intro Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Jewish Theatre Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy King Kong Routine Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Paul Molloy & Christianity Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Sex Is Dirty Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Talks To Lady In Audience Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy The Bust Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy The Milwaukee Gig Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy War Criminals Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Who's A Fag Lenny Bruce Busted (Live) Comedy Carnegie Hall Concert (Disc 1) Lenny Bruce Carnegie Hall Comedy Carnegie Hall Concert (Disc 2) Lenny Bruce Carnegie Hall Comedy Adolf Hitler Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Airplane Glue Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Christians & Jews Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Critics Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Eichmann Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Fantasy With The Judge Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Fat Boy Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Father Flotski's Triumph Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy How the Negro and the Jew Got Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Jail Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Lenny Bruce Is Out Again Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Nuns & Paul Robeson Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Relax Your Coloured Friends Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Religions Inc. Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Southerners Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy Thank You Masked Man Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy The Law, Language & Lenny Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy The Palladium Lenny Bruce The Palladium Comedy White Collar Drunks Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy White Woman & Black Woman Lenny Bruce Vintage Comedy Comedy

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anacondon (2008-12-12)

my god. the mother lode. I think the closest this culture's come to bruce since his passing is Bill Hicks, another tragically misunderstood - and villified during his lifetime - 'satirist'. Also died horribly young. Great post (used to have the carnegie concert on pristine vinyl)

 godcanjudgeme (2008-12-30)

F*ck Me!!!!!
Hats off to you Malinkaz..
This is a collection to die for.. Can't wait to add this to my archive.
Lenny will never die..!!

primalclaws1974 (2009-08-13)

This guy was vulgar and gave black people a bad name. Too bad people make him a martyr now, because it does not help the black cause.

corkboys (2009-12-14)

Awesome torrent! Thanks! Any seeders out there? Help!

corkboys (2009-12-18)

Thanks seeders! Took a coupla day but no complaints! Now I can join you...

MonJoh (2011-08-28)

Wow. Thanks a lot. There's pure awesomeness oozing from this, and therefore from you (wich is gross)...
Thanks!

haitekabi (2014-05-08)

Thanx so much for this, Lenny was a trailblazer and way ahead of his time...R.I.P. Lenny

exile68 (2014-09-24)

Amazing collections. Thanks so much! Bruce was waaayy ahead of his time, and truly brilliant. And primalclaws1974, you're an uptight wank with little sense of humor. Bruce's work was for actual adults, not wanks like you hiding behind the half-truths of the 'Waltons' world. And he by no means gave blacks a 'bad name'. Bruce did just the opposite, but you lack the intellectual capacity to know the difference between literal expression and sarcasm/irony/facetiousness.