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I'm not to hip to Lenny Bruce. I've heard so many people talk about him and always meant to pick up some of his material, but never got around to it. Finally, I just ordered a few CDs... Been collecting several (other than the obvious) like Redd, Moms, Carlin, Cheech & Chong, Pigmeat, and Eddie Murphy (he needs to do another fuckin' album!)

JTF,

Lenny Bruce is really quite good though (this based off of the one CD and few mp3s I have). Consider the time frame. While he was hitting the jazz joints around the country, people like Abbot and Costello were on tv deciding who was on first. McCarthyism was just dying out and it was the post WWII anxiety.

Bruce was saying stuff that NO ONE was saying either. Critisizing the masses for allowing segregation to go on. Talking about sex, drugs, divorse, shit...anything. I will agree that Bruce is not as funny and does not have the joke frequency of modern comics. It's not the 10-15 second joke structure of today.

Not to mention, some of the problems he satirized no longer are problems or make sense. When his talking about Gov. Long, it's an anethema. You don't know Gov. Long. The majority of my friends don't know Harry Belafonte. References have no meaning today.

I put Lenny Bruce in the same catagory as Dick Gregory. I haven't heard much of Dick Gregory, but what I have heard is along the same lines. They both attacked the wrongs of socially accepted white life, or just society in general. It needed to be said.

It's people like this who get social wrongs changed. These people get you to see the other side, and help change the mentality for the better.

This is strictly my opinion, mind you, but I think it's applicable. I could also include Mr. Pryor in this argument, but I'm saving that for my speech about stand-up that I'll be presenting in the coming weeks.

Jane

Hey Everyone,

I went back into the archives and dug this up. It's a thread dedicated to Lenny Bruce started by [/i]The Man In Charge [/i] himself

We've obviously got some new members who are Lenny Bruce fans so enjoy!

SweetLuchia,
Thanks so much sweetheart This was a really great read!

Much Luv

SweetLuchia,



Hope you guys relize how lucky we are to have such a sweetheart on our side!

smjmcomic,
Too true!