Museum Exhibit: Lenny Bruce

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This paper describes the exhibit on 1950s comedian Lenny Bruce. The paper also gives background information about Lenny Bruce and explains why Bruce's form of comedy was so shocking for its time.

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"Long before there was John Stewart and Comedy Central, long before David Letterman gritted his gap-toothed smile on CBS, Lenny Bruce held comedic sway as the nation's satirist of record. But unlike John Stewart, or even edgier comedians like Chris Rock and Margaret Cho, Lenny Bruce during his heyday was considered a transgressing presence upon the American comedic stage, rather than a popular mainstay of talk shows and popular entertainment. Today, comedians of strong words and even stronger personalities are common. But before Bruce, much of American comedy was decidedly non-abrasive. Even the Marx Brother's cutting humor was more intended in silliness, than to have a explicit cultural or social bite to it."

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