The Essential Lenny Bruce - John Cohen

A posthumously released anthology of works by Lenny Bruce. Edited and compiled by John Cohen. Features works transcribed from numerous taped performances.

Lenny Bruce, born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was also controversial, eventually leading to the first posthumous pardon in New York history.

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