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Lenny Bruce
12+ albums
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Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider in Mineola, New York, was an extremely influential and controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s, whose comedy revolved heavily around the social stigmas and taboos of the era in which he lived. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in New York state history. Bruce's early comedy career included writing the screenplays for Dance Hall Racket in 1953, which featured himself, his wife, Honey Harlow, and mother, Sally Marr, in roles; Dream Follies in 1954, a low-budget burlesque romp; and a children's film, The Rocket Man, in 1954. He also released four albums of original material on Berkeley-based Fantasy Records, with rants, comic routines, and satirical interviews on the themes that made him famous: jazz, moral philosophy, politics, patriotism, religion, law, race, abortion, drugs, the Ku Klux Klan, and Jewishness. These albums were later compiled and re-released as The Lenny Bruce Originals Volume 1 and Volume 2 in 1991. Two later records were produced and sold by Bruce himself, including a 10-inch album, Live: San Francisco 1966, of the 1961 San Francisco performances that started his legal troubles. Starting in the late 1950s, other unissued Bruce material was released by Alan Douglas, Frank Zappa and Phil Spector, as well as Fantasy. Bruce developed the complexity and tone of his materi
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albums
The Lenny Bruce Originals, Volume 1
The Berkeley Concert
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The Lenny Bruce Originals Vol 2
Dirty Words - Live 1962
Busted!
Warning Lenny Bruce Is Out Again
Live At The Curran Theater
The Lenny Bruce Originals, Volume 2
The Carnegie Hall Concert
To is a Preposition; Come is a Verb
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Lenny Bruce: Let The Buyer Beware (Disc 1)
The Lenny Bruce Originals, Vol. 2