Lenny Bruce

Leonard Alfred Schneider (), yang lebih dikenal dengan nama panggungnya Lenny Bruce, adalah seorang komedian tunggal, kritikus sosial dan satiris Yahudi-Amerika. Ia dikenal atas bentuk komedi kritis, gaya bebas dan terbukanya yang memasukan satir, politik, agama, seks, dan vulgaritas. Dakwaan tahun 1964-nya dalam sebuah pengadilan kelewatan moral disusul oleh pencabutan anumerta, pertama kali dalam sejarah negara bagian New York, oleh Gubernur pada masa itu George Pataki pada 2003.

Ia memberikan jalan bagi masa depan para komedian era kontra-budaya, dan pengadilannya atas dakwaan kelewatan moral dipandang sebagai markah tanah bagi kebebasan berbicara di Amerika Serikat.  Pada 2017, mejalah Rolling Stone mengangkatnya pada peringkat ketiga (disamping Richard Pryor dan George Carlin) pada daftar 50 komika tunggal terbaik sepanjang masa buatannya.

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Referensi

Pranala luar 

 The Official Lenny Bruce Website
 FBI Records: The Vault - Lenny Bruce at fbi.gov
 
 "Famous Trials: The Lenny Bruce Trial, 1964", University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law. Includes Linder, Douglas, "The Lenny Bruce Trial: An Account", 2003. .
 Azlant, Edward. "Lenny Bruce Again", Shecky Magazine, August 22, 2006
 Gilmore, John. "Lenny Bruce and the Bunny", excerpt from Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip (Amok Books, 1997). 
 Harnisch, Larry. "Voices", Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2007. (Reminiscences by saxophonist Dave Pell)
 Kaufman, Anthony.  (interview with Swear to Tell the Truth producer), Indiewire.com, April 16, 2008
 Hentoff, Nat. "Lenny Bruce: The crucifixion of a true believer", Gadfly March/April 2001
 Sloan, Will. "Is Lenny Bruce Still Funny?", Hazlitt, November 4, 2014
 Smith, Daniel V. "The Complete Lenny Bruce Chronology" (fan site)
 
 "Lenny Bruce: The Making of a Prophet" Memoir and pictures from Bruce's principal collaborator, Media Maestro 2001.
 The Pot Smokers, a satirical article by Lenny Bruce, reprinted in The (Almost) Unpublished Lenny Bruce
 Idioms for Marijuana Cigarettes, by Lenny Bruce, reprinted in The (Almost) Unpublished Lenny Bruce
 , LENNY BRUCE: Remembering a Comic Genius - by Tom Degan
 Correspondence and Other Papers Pertaining to Lenny Bruce's Drug Case, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  [CC-By-SA]

Audio/video 
 "Come and Gone/Thank you, Mr. Masked Man!", My KPFA – A Historical Footnote (1961 Jazz Workshop performance and two 1963 performances)
 Video Clips Relating to the Trial of Lenny Bruce as assembled by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School