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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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The great comedian Lenny Bruce used to tell a story about a quasi-hip, upwardly mobile young couple whose cocktail napkins were inscribed, "Another Martini For Mother Cabrini.
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Rob Bruff,
Nightclub Bouncer
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Lenny Bruce was a comedian, social satirist, free-speech cursader, and fought the fight till his curtain closed.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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In particular the section of Lenny Bruce's stand-up routine at the end of the first half had me in stitches - my jaw ached from lauging.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Remastered and re-released, a video of the greatest comedian since Lenny Bruce doing some of his early material.
Lenny Bruce, considered an outrageous comedian in the 1950s, now has hundreds of imitators dominating American night club and TV humour.
Summary: The film captures Lenny Bruce, a troubled comedian on stage and off, trying to make sense of a world full of pretense and sham.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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He is the co-author of a recent book on the obscenity arrests and free speech struggles of the comedian Lenny Bruce, entitled The Trials of Lenny Bruce.
Comparisons to Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor are per- fectly appropriate, and it's almost certain that most people who see her new concert film.
I remember Lenny Bruce's joke about comparing a communist country to one big telephone company.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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What about when we would literally shit our pants to records by Bill Hicks or Redd Foxx or Lenny Bruce or Richard Pryor?
Lenny Bruce's "An Autobiography - How To Talk Dirty and Influence People" is also a favorite.
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