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medy which integrated satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity that was the life blood of the counter-culture of the 1950s and 6os was that of Lenny Bruce — American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and screenwriter — and truly one of the greatest that ever was.... as well as someone who in
14).png; image(I5).png; image(16).png; image(I7).png; image(18).png; image(19).png DEAR FRIEND Lenny Bruce Long before there was a Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Bill Cosby, the voice of open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity that was t
onate blood because he had ingested acid. In the eighties, there are those who are afraid to get a blood transfusion because of AIDS. In the sixties, Lenny Bruce got arrested for saying “cocksucker” on stage. In the eighties, Meryl Streep got an Academy Award for saying it in Sophie's Choice. Now, almost the e
eformers should follow the example of gay- rights activists by having celebrities come out of the pot-smoking closet. Already, veteran stand-up comic George Carlin—in an interview by 7he Daily Show’ s Jon Stewart following Carlin’ s HBO special—admitted that HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015299 he smokes a joint to help hi
legations against the club, and the current charge involved neither violence nor drunken behavior. The only charge pressed by the city prosecutor was Lenny Bruce's allegedly obscene performance. Nobody’ s prurience was aroused, but that made no difference. After all, there wasn’ t any law against blasphemy. “Ch
strung Truman up by the balls.’ ” The cops also broke open Lenny's candy bars, looking for drugs. They checked the IDs of audience members, including George Carlin, who told the cops, “I don’ t believe in IDs.” Then they arrested him for disorderly conduct, dragged him along by the seat of his pants and hoiste
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assner about running The Realist, hacking The New York Times Bestseller list, and that “true, extraordinary liar,” Donald Trump. of American comedy: Lenny Bruce, The Second City, and The Realist. From its first issue in the Spring of 1958, Paul Krassner’s iconoclastic “journal of freethought and satire” crea
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638 →lot of words in italics when he wrote. And he talked the same way. He talked with italics. EP: Maybe he’d italicize Trump. Finally, how do you think George Carlin would respond to Trump? PK: He might make a list. George loved to make lists. He could make a list of lies, of Trump’s lies. EP: Paul, this has bee
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023643 →strung Truman up by the balls.' " The cops also broke open Lenny's candy bars, looking for drugs. They checked the IDs of audience members, including George Carlin, who told the cops, "I don' t believe in IDs." Then they arrested him for disorderly conduct, dragged him along by the seat of his pants and hoisted
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030190 →legations against the club, and the current charge involved neither violence nor drunken behavior. The only charge pressed by the city prosecutor was Lenny Bruce's allegedly obscene performance. Nobody's prurience was aroused, but that made no difference. After all, there wasn' t any law against blasphemy. "Chic
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030191 →Entities connected to both Lenny Bruce and George Carlin

Donald Trump
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Paul Krassner
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George W. Bush
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John F. Kennedy
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Marc Rich
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Bill Clinton
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Cynthia Nixon
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Harvey Weinstein
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Bob Dylan
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Ronald Reagan
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Vladimir Lenin
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Hillary Clinton
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Glenn Dubin
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Bernie Sanders
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Julie K. Brown
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United States
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Joe Biden
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Woody Allen
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