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Anybody remember the time DC put the continued existence of Robin to a vote? Didn’t everybody think that was kind of tacky? And the regular characters on NCIS: LA are all pretty likable. By comparison, Jason Todd, as Lenny Bruce once said of the victim...
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Boxer Sonny Liston.Won all his fights by Knock Out except one, to Mohammed Ali, died mysteriously in Las Vegas in 1970. 60. Albert Einstein.“Well read” patent office employee used to front for Illuminati new technology. 65. Child star Bobby Breen.Lenny...
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All the comics I've ever admired, whether it be Kinison, Lenny Bruce, Buddy Hackett or Richard Pryor, all share a commonality ... They're a tour de force. When they speak, there's no room for rebuttal. They've thought it all out. Even the pros and cons of their argument, they raise openly and debate in ...
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Kinky Friedman brings BiPolar Tour to Collinsville's Bridge Street Live June 20
Foothills Media Group
He’ll perform at Bridge Street Live on June 20, 8 p.m. $25 and $35 The Kinkster, whose solo performance has recently been described as “Mark Twain meets Groucho Marx. With a foreword from Angelina Jolie, The Billy Bob Tapes promises “colorful tales...
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We're certainly not off the hook. Aladeen says and does truly outrageous things, but they're also exaggerations of the world we live in. It might be a stretch to call Sacha Baron Cohen the British Lenny Bruce or George Carlin in a face merkin, but rest...
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David Axelrod, and Lloyd Blankfein. All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. Not all facial tissues are Kleenex, but we call them that nevertheless. To a certain kind of mind, all conspirators are Jews, whether they’re actually...
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Look, most of the greats came from the Village. Cafe Au Go Go was where Lenny Bruce played. Circle in the Square. Le Figaro. The Village Gate. How good does it get? I understand why they want to save it. But that was then.
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Stand-Up! America’s Dissenting Tradition Part 2: Transformers George Carlin & Richard Pryor (Column)
PopMatters
Lenny Bruce had been performing his usual cocktail of incendiary material, delivering satirical riffs about God and the pope via his patented mélange of Yiddish slang, swear words, and hipster vernacular. Whether the Irish-Catholic cops in attendance...
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The dialogue in between songs is still pretty funny. Other artists that released albums through Bizarre and Straight were comedians Lenny Bruce and Lord Buckley. Zappa's manager Herb Cohen brought folk artists like Tim Buckley that are covered briefly.
About Lenny Bruce
Wikipedia
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial led to the first posthumous pardon in New York history. Full Article
