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  • 05/29/12 Despite vast differences, they bled red Source: Henderson Daily News - Henderson TX In the early 1960s, the controversial, cutting-edge comic Lenny Bruce supposedly said he dreaded the day when the Soviet Union was no longer this country's mortal enemy.
  • 05/11/12 Stand-Up! America's Dissenting Tradition Part 2:... Source: PopMatters It was a night in November 1962, at the Gate of Horn nightclub in Chicago, when the baton of stand-up dissent was (symbolically) passed between generations and epochs.
  • 05/09/12 New Musical Dig Lenny Bruce, Featuring Mario Cantone... Source: Playbill Tony Award nominee Mario Cantone ( Laugh Whore ) and Rob Bartlett ( How to Succeed… ) will star in an industry-only staged reading of Dig Lenny Bruce , a new musical that explores how the infamous comic discovered his "voice," June 7 in NYC.

Background on lenny bruce

Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by the stage name Lenny Bruce, was a Jewish-American comedian, social critic and satirist.

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