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Lenny Bruce
Leonard Alfred Schneider
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Leonard Alfred Schneider, 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-style and critical form of comedy which integrated satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity.
Branded a "sick comic", Bruce was essentially blacklisted from television, and when he did appear these performances was facilitated by fans like Hugh Hefner and Steve Allen.
In 1951, Bruce met Honey Harlow, a stripper from Manila, Arkansas.
They were married that same year, and Bruce was determined she would end her work as a stripper.
Throughout the final decade of his life, Bruce was beset by severe drug addiction.
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Lenny Bruces depiction on film did...Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film 2023
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DEATH SCENES II continues the exploration...Death Scenes 2 1992
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A compilation film of stand up...TV's Funniest Comedians - 14 Stars Do Classic Routines 1986
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The outrageous groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce...Lenny Bruce: Without Tears 1972
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This short animation set to Lenny...Thank You Mask Man 1971
This short animation set to Lenny Bruce's live monologue tells how the Lone Ranger hooks up with Tonto. With Bruce doing all the voices, this animation begins with local folks upset at the Lone Ranger because he won't stay around to be thanked after a good deed. So, he stays and finds he likes hearing "Thank you mask man." When their attention starts to shift elsewhere, he shocks and disgusts the townspeople with a final request. According to the cartoon’s producer John Magnuson, at early showings of this, gay audiences were upset by its apparent “fag-bashing”. And it’s true, part of the fun of the piece is just crying out “Masked man’s a fag”, scandalising and defacing the image of this all-American hero. But it’s within the larger context of Bruce’s analysis of heroism, and that the towns people reject the Masked Man is because of their prejudices, not because Bruce is asking us to endorse them. (from: http://ukjarry.blogspot.de/2010/01/352-lenny-bruce-thank-you-mask-man.html)
Iconoclast Lenny Bruce appears at San...Lenny Bruce in 'Lenny Bruce' 1967
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