pector, as well as Fantasy. Bruce developed the complexity and tone of his material in Enrico Banducci's North Beach nightclub, "The hungry 4" where Mort Sahl had earlier made a name for himself. EFTA00695058 Branded a "sick comic" - though it was the perceived "sickness" of modern society that he was r

d the Purple Onion in San Francisco presided over a new age of stand-up by providing stage time for such Hall of Fame game- changers as Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, the Smothers Brothers, Woody Allen, Phyllis Diller, Bob Newhart and Jonathan Winters. Nothing compares to that Golden Age but return w