Click here to create your personal news page. The news that appears on Lenny Bruce will appear there and be constantly updated. You can then modify the page, share it with your friends, or export it and have it appear elsewhere.
You can also create a personal news page and follow the news that interests you by clicking on the tab labelled 'New page'.
Rocker NEIL DIAMOND was so desperate to ditch his squeaky-clean image, he once auditioned to play troubled comedian LENNY BRUCE. Diamond was desperate to land the lead role in the 1974 drama Lenny and reportedly performed a successful screen test in which he "transformed" into the controversial funnyman. David Wild, author of Diamond’s biography He Is… I [...]
NEIL Diamond spewing obscenities and shooting heroin? It nearly happened. In the upcoming bio, "He Is . . . I Say," David Wild reveals the famed singer-songwriter wanted to shed his squeaky-clean image by portraying Lenny Bruce in the 1974 flick...
In honor of the late George Carlin's Seven Words You Can't Say on TV, FSR recommends 1974's Lenny, the tragedy of comedian-satirist Lenny Bruce, who heavily influenced Carlin, Pryor, and Woody. Dustin Hoffman is brilliant in his intense portrayal of upcoming comic Lenny Bruce, who burns with lust for Honey Harlow, ...
“I don't care if you think I’m racist. I just want you to think I’m thin.” Meet Sarah Silverman, actor, comic, writer, controversialist, sometimes called the female Lenny Bruce, hot property in America and now trying to conquer Britain.
When George Carlin died, after remembering some of his classic bits, my thoughts drifted to Lenny Bruce. “Lenny Bruce opened the doors for all the folks like me; he prefigured the free-speech movement and helped push the culture forward into the light of open and honest expression. I like to find out where the line is drawn and then drag the audience across the line with me and make them happier for...
When George Carlin died, after remembering some of his classic bits, my thoughts drifted to Lenny Bruce. "Lenny Bruce opened the doors for all the folks like me; he prefigured the free-speech movement and helped push the culture forward into the light of open and honest expression. I like to find out where the line is drawn and then drag the audience across the line with me and make them happier for...
When George Carlin died, after remembering some of his classic bits, my thoughts drifted to Lenny Bruce. "Lenny Bruce opened the doors for all the folks like me; he prefigured the free-speech movement and helped push the culture forward into the light of open and honest expression. I like to find out where the line is drawn and then drag the audience across the line with me and make them happier for...
As we’ve noted in the past, Stinky master of predicting the future of love sounds Justin Timberlake isn’t quite on the level of Richard Pryor or Lenny Bruce when it comes to comedy routines. After...
Jonah Falcon, the totally awesome dude who selected my entry into a political slogan contest as the winner and whom I thank again, responded thusly to my post regarding the death of stand-up comedian George Carlin: George Carlin was the best comic, right there with the late Lenny Bruce and the late Bill Hicks. Here is a response which I feel better explains my feelings on the matter and is also in...
George Carlin, who made his name in the United States in the 1970s as a hip counterculture comedian in the tradition of Lenny Bruce, has died of heart failure in California. He was 71.
Posted by Frank Petrie Clump 007: G’bye, George From the N. Y. Times : “George Carlin, whose astringent stand-up comedy made him an heir of Lenny Bruce, who gave voice to an indignant counterculture and assaulted the barricades of censorship on behalf of a generation of comics that followed him, died on Sunday in Santa...
On Bob Dylan's album "Shot of Love," there is a song called "Lenny Bruce is Dead": Lenny Bruce is dead, But his ghost lives on and on. Never did get any Golden Globe award, Never made it to Synanon. He was an outlaw, That's for sure, More of an outlaw than you ever were. Lenny Bruce is gone But his spirit's livin' on and on.George Carlin is gone now too, and his spirit's livin' on and on. It was
Like some of the other original comics who died too soon -- Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Andy Kaufman-- George Carlin changed comedy, nudging and sometimes pushing it along.
