Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce
Leonard Alfred Schneider, better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and screenwriter. He was renowned for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in New York State history, by then-Governor George Pataki in 2003. He paved the way for future outspoken counterculture-era comedians, and his trial for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth13 October 1925
CityMineola, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.
The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.
If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.
I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.
The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.
I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.