How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
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Lenny Bruce
During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions; he widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, "So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed through the doors Lenny opened. He utterly changed the world of comedy." Although Bruce died when he was only forty, his influence on the worlds of comedy, jazz, and satire are incalculable. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People remains a brilliant existential account of his life and the forces that made him the most important and controversial entertainer in history.
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Author
Lenny Bruce
Pages
240
Publisher
Hachette Books
Published Date
2016-08-02
ISBN
0306825309 9780306825309
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"He may have been a genius comedian, but he should have never written his own biography. How he talks on stage, rambling and ranting to eventually tie everything together, is how he writes. It's difficult to follow and isn't really a biography as much as it is a rambling of thoughts throw in chronological order. Also there's way too many court transcripts, like waaaaaaaay too many"
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