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About the Lenny Bruce
Leonard Alfred Schneideron its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Lenny Bruce was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist known for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy.
Lenny Bruce, whose real name was Leonard Alfred Schneider, was born on October 13, 1925.
Lenny Bruce was convicted of obscenity in 1964, but he was posthumously pardoned in 2003.
Lenny Bruce paved the way for counterculture-era comedians, and his trial for obscenity was a landmark of freedom of speech in the United States.
In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Lenny Bruce third (behind Richard Pryor and George Carlin) on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
18 Quotes by Lenny Bruce
- 1.
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 2.
Communism is like one big phone company.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 3.
I hate small towns because once you’ve seen the cannon in the park there’s nothing else to do.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 4.
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 5.
The “what should be” never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no “what should be,” there is only what is.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 6.
The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 7.
When you’re eight years old nothing is your business.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 8.
I won’t say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I’m going to be if I grow up.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 9.
There are never enough I Love You’s.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 10.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it… try to fake three laughs in an hour – ha ha ha ha ha – they’ll take you away, man. You can’t.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 11.
Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 12.
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 13.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 14.
If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 15.
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 16.
I’ll die young, but it’s like kissing God.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 17.
A lot of people say to me, ‘Why did you kill Christ?’ I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)
- 18.
The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.
Lenny BruceAmerican comedian and social critic (1925-1966)