Biography

An American icon, Lenny Bruce is essentially known as a comedian, but he was equal parts comic, philosopher, and social critic. At a particularly conservative, uptight moment in American culture, he spoke out freely against the hypocrisies of religion, government, and social mores. His use of expletives and sexual themes, modest by today's standards, got him in endless legal troubles, which savaged both his life and his career. He died of an overdose in 1966, but remains one of the key influences on comedy, particularly on comedians with a sociopolitical bent.

Top Tracks

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• Adolph Hitler And The M.c.a.

• All Broadway Musicals Sound The Same, Especially The Baritones

• Blah Blah Blah

• Dirty Toilet

• How To Relax Your Colored Friends At Parties

• Marriage, Divorce And Motels

• Our Governors

• Religions, Inc.

• White Collar Drunks

• Would You Sell Out Your Country?

Discography

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• Live: San Francisco 1966

  Koch Records

  2005

• To Is a Preposition; Come Is a Verb

  Knitting Factory Works

  2000

• What I Was Arrested For: The Performance That Got Lenny Bruce Busted

  Get Back Records

  1992

• The Law, Language and Lenny Bruce

  Spector

  1974

• Live at the Curran Theater

  Fantasy

  1961

• American

  Fantasy

  1960

• Togetherness

  1959

• The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce

  Fantasy

  1958

• Interviews of Our Times

  Fantasy

  1958