Courtesy Dorian Cope, who blogged this today:
3rd August 1966 – the Death of Lenny Bruce
“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.’” – Lenny Bruce
Genius comic and social critic/agitator Lenny Bruce died, ignominiously, forty-three years ago today on 3rd August 1966.
During our “wilderness years” cocooned in an all-black room in Tamworth, Julian and I watched Lenny’s “Thank You Mask Man” over and over and over and over again …
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A great animated short. It’s an extra on the DVD of “The Lenny Bruce Performance Film.”
Thank you mask man!