Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
1998
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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 which contained satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. [2]
Apr 2, 2014 · Lenny Bruce was an American stand-up comic and satirist who became a target for prosecutors and a poster boy for freedom of speech.
Jul 16, 2021 · Learn how Lenny Bruce, a pioneer of comedy and free speech, died of a morphine overdose in 1966 after years of legal battles and drug addiction. Find out how his legacy influenced other comedians and was posthumously pardoned by New York Governor.
Learn about the life and career of Lenny Bruce, an American stand-up comedian who challenged censorship and social norms with his provocative humor. Explore his early influences, his obscenity trial, his albums, and his legacy.
Aug 13, 2012 · Home of the Lenny Bruce Memorial Foundation, LennyBruce.org is the only site recognized by Lenny's daughter, Kitty Bruce
Apr 30, 2024 · Lenny Bruce was an American stand-up comic and social satirist during the 1950s and early ’60s. Although public authorities increasingly denounced his performances as dirty and sick and courts across the United States tried him for obscenity, Bruce was widely esteemed by artists and intellectuals.
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Jul 28, 2016 · The groundbreaking comedian died on Aug. 3, 1966 from an overdose of morphine while his New York obscenity conviction was still on appeal. On that same day he received a foreclosure...
