Lenny

"...This striking black-and-white film biography of the life of Lenny Bruce is a small Hollywood gem. Hoffman does a..."

July 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lenny

Leonard Cohen's U.S. tour to open at Austin's Long Center April 2.

"...Not Bruce, Cohen. Veteran Austin bassist Roscoe Beck, musical director for..."

Jan. 22, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

"...version of some Borscht-Belt comic, part Henny Youngman, part Lenny Bruce. Jeremy wears both his thick Queens accent and..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

"...authors as Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce. It also produced a film version of Macbeth,..."

Feb. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'A Guy Walks Into the United States Art Authority...'

Feral Cinema/Lenny Bruce

"...There's no telling what seminal comic/provocateur Lenny Bruce would make of the mess were in these..."

July 15, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

A Cuppa Hot Joe

On a comedy club stage, News Radio star Joe Rogan exudes a mad joy for life in all its insanity, depravity, and delicious dirt; if Henry Miller had done stand-up, it would have come out like Joe Rogan's act.

"...Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored..."

May 4, 2001 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Lenny Bruce

Gift guide

"...Lenny BruceLet the Buyer Beware (Shout! Factory)..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

A Tale of Two Comics

Comedy Contrast: Bill Hicks & David Letterman

"...Night Live), Lord Buckley, Norman Lear, and, of course, Lenny Bruce. Their styles and venues varied, but all were..."

March 21, 1997 Arts Feature by Harvey Pekar

Dreamsville

16 Magazine and the birth of music journalism

"...was changing, and she was having an affair with Lenny Bruce. What's odder than that?"..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

In a Valley of Violence

Ti West takes a break from horror with this Ethan Hawke Western

"...both a terrifying reality and a laugh-out-loud joke. Forget Lenny Bruce; this is the sick humor of Ti West...."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Call Me Lucky

Bobcat Goldthwait directs doc about fellow comic Barry Crimmins

"...wit is compared with that of Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce...."

Aug. 7, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Out of Bounds Comedy Festival

To beat the heat, OOB offers improv and stand-up acts in the triple digits

"...comics and a trio of films, including documentaries about Lenny Bruce, legendary improviser Del Close, and the Compass Players,..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

F*ck

Like the very word this documentary examines, F*ck can be found all over the place.

"...of the patron saints of profanity's freedom of expression: Lenny Bruce and George Carlin. F*ck divides its survey into..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

LBJ Swings Like the Pendulum Do

For a fun Sixties flashback – sans acid – see the LBJ Library's 'Signs of the Times: Life in the Swingin' Sixties'

"...seat in a comedy club and watch footage of Lenny Bruce, Jonathan Winters, Bill Cosby, and a boyish Woody..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Requiem for a Sane Man

Exalting comic maverick Bill Hicks on the 10th anniversary of his passing

"...may be mentioned as being worthy of inclusion with Lenny Bruce in any list of unflinching and painfully honest..."

March 12, 2004 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

The Order

Mysterious doings in a Catholic sect, on the whole more silly than scary.

"...but by a junkie mainlining the smart-alecky ghost of Lenny Bruce. The flat, cadaverish tones of the film were..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Book Review

"Between its title and proximate April Fools' Day release, the casual observer might assume Gerald Nachman's Seriously Funny is some sort of joke book," writes Ken Lieck. "However, its subtitle and subject offer the advanced student of dry humor the opportunity to quip that no, it is the anti-joke book!"

"...before him. Each proffered something new, unique, and precious: Lenny Bruce's relentless and "obscenely" funny digs at racists and..."

April 18, 2003 Books Feature by Ken Lieck

DysFunKtional Family

"...Seventies; it was a common feint, too, back when Lenny Bruce and Shelley Berman LPs outsold popular standards. These..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2001

"...eight and, apparently, never lets go. I'm not talking Lenny Bruce here, either, though, as in previous versions of..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

"...With a giddily irreverent style that echoes not only Lenny Bruce but other Sixties humorists such as Tom Lehrer..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Matinee

This film is a fondly humorous look back at the last gasp of America's innocence, being a kid, and, in particular, monster movies.

"...of Filmland magazine, those terrific Aurora plastic monster kits, Lenny Bruce LPs, fallout shelters, and Saturday matinees. Sometimes it..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

3 Strikes

"...Vincent Schiavelli, George Wallace, Antonio Fargas and David Leisure. Lenny Bruce used to do a routine about the way..."

March 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bill Paxton’s Lost Film Ties Together UT, Bob Fosse, and William S. Burroughs

Cut up, chopped and screwed: The long path to Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited

"...ends – leftover film stock – from Bob Fosse's Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny, "and probably a tripod." Unfortunately, what..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Loved One

"..."He's just trying to exploit me," groused Lenny Bruce in 1964, declining an offer proffered by fellow..."

July 7, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Inability to Cater

What is so 'punk' about JT Habersaat and the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour?

"...Mike Wiebe's hilariously embarrassing story about his band meeting Bruce Springsteen on the road, then cringing as he asks..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

Scanlines

"...with Max Julien, Susan Strasberg, Jack Nicholson, Dean Stockwell, Bruce Dern), deaf 17-year-old waif Strasberg makes her way to..."

March 20, 1998 Screens Feature

When Comic Do Good

Thanks to the benefit 'Stand-Up Is Dead,' some Central Texas wildlife won't be.

"...now is a national comedy legend on par with Lenny Bruce. But while he was alive, Hicks didn't achieve..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

May I Have This Laugh?

What are you laughing at? Cable network Trio -- will release "Uncensored Comedy," three meditations on the state of our sense of humor, in June, to help us figure it out.

"...include a rare 1963 performance film of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce followed by the short "Thank You Masked Man,"..."

May 30, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...this year he and his friend Josh Alan Friedman (Bruce Jay Friedman's son) brought out a sort of sequel..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

A Revolutionary Letter to Artists

Someone waved

"...singing no matter what trouble she was in, and Lenny Bruce dying of the fight to say in public..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Column

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