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Aug 9, 2016 · Unlike his peers, Mr. Bruce never reached the less glamorous side of the generation gap. In death, he became an eternal hipster.
- Jason Zinoman
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]
Dec 2, 2004 · In “The Lawrence Welk Story,” about a junkie jazz musician working for Welk, Bruce found a hipster idiom to match his Borscht Belt goofiness.
With a six-CD career overview recently released and a museum retrospective of his television work about to begin, it is a season for Lenny Bruce, arguably the most important comic of his ...
Jan 16, 2011 · Lenny Bruce’s skeletal remains are those of a hipster satirist who got arrested for saying “cocksucker” in a night club so that modern comedians could say it on HBO. Was he funny? Was he even...
- Tad Friend
Aug 26, 2006 · The great US comedian Lenny Bruce, the hipster comic lauded as an "oral jazzman" and "one of the seminal forces of American culture", played only one run of performances on this side of the...
Douglas Watt on Lenny Bruce’s “Berkeley Concert” records and the standup comic’s one-man war against cant and hypocrisy.
