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  • The life and times of George Carlin - Examiner

    Interesting and amusing, of course. Well, when Carlin was younger he knew the comedian and social critic, Lenny Bruce. Bruce was before my time, but I heard about him being busted by the police in nightclubs. I always thought it was just for ...

  • Stand-Up! America’s Dissenting Tradition Part 2: Transformers George Carlin&Richard Pryor - Popmatters.com

    Lenny Bruce had been performing his usual cocktail of incendiary material, delivering satirical riffs about God and the pope via his patented mélange of Yiddish slang, swear words, and hipster vernacular. Whether the Irish-Catholic cops in attendance had ...

  • The Hot List: Funny Over Everything, Geek Olympathon, Back Fence PDX, more - Oregonian

    Headlining is Hari Kondabolu, who has been compared to such greats as Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor (without the self-destructive bits). Kondabolu has appeared on"Jimmy Kimmel Live,""John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show,"and, with his brother ...

  • MOVIE REVIEW:'God Bless America'full of wit, sarcasm, but dud ending - Gwinnett Daily Post

    With"World's Greatest Dad"and"God Bless America,"Goldthwait deserves the same kind of recognition lavished upon social satirists such as Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin. Expanding on the country's obsession with media and the cult ...

  • Summer Arts Preview: Hot fun in the summertime - MetroWest Daily News

    It presents “Pirates of Penzance” like you’ve never seen, “Hotel Nepenthe,” Friends of Eddie Coyle” and “Steve Cuiffo as Lenny Bruce.” June 21-24, www.emergingamericafestival.com Thisseaside town is best known for whale watching ...

  • The Dictator’ director Larry Charles discusses the comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen, Larry David, and, yes, Bob Dylan - YAHOO!

    Charles chatted with Yahoo! Movies about going to the darker side of comedy with Cohen, humor as an ethnic survival tool and the Jewish comic holy trinity: Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. Thelma Adams: You've always wanted to go to the more absurd ...

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