Lenny Bruce Quotes


I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.


Citations

Bruce, Lenny. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. Playboy Press, 1965, p. 89.

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She was a teenager at the time. The leaders organized some entertainment and she performed traditional Japanese dances. In the beginning there was no school, no education or training, no entertainment. Later there were some rudimentary opportunities provided by the authorities.


Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce
  • Born: October 13, 1925
  • Died: August 3, 1966
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Comedian

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, freestyle and critical form of comedy which contained satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in the history of New York State, by Governor George Pataki in 2003.