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* FountainOfExpies: So, so much. Creator/GeorgeCarlin, Creator/RichardPryor, Creator/BillHicks and so many more would not have become what they did without Lenny Bruce breaking down the door.
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* ShortLivedBigImpact: He died at forty, but his rude (and obscene in its day) sets were pioneering and helped set the tone of such comics that came after, as well as contemporaries such as Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was offered the GagDub movie ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'', but turned it down and suggested that they offer it to a young rising comic named...Creator/WoodyAllen.
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** "Are there any niggers here tonight!?" of course, taking it as straight-up Black Comedy misses the point.[[note]]He was performing in a club and he saw Dick Gregory and he improvised that line, then mocked how shocked the crowd must have been that he said it, then imagined an America where the word gets used so much that it loses all its meaning. As a certain Creator/ChrisRock routine some 30+ years later proved, we aren't there yet.[[/note]]
** He opened his first show after the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy by remaining pensively silent for a few moments and then saying "Boy, Vaughn Meader is fucked!"[[note]] Some versions of this quote have "Vaughn Meader is screwed."[[/note]]. [[note]] There is evidence that Bruce genuinely feared for Meader's career, as the two had kept a wary friendship for a few years. [[/note]] (Vaughn Meader was an impressionist who had been very successful with a spookily accurate impersonation of JFK, and his career did in fact come to an instant and total halt.)
** He opened his first show after the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy by remaining pensively silent for a few moments and then saying "Boy, Vaughn Meader is fucked!"[[note]] Some versions of this quote have "Vaughn Meader is screwed."[[/note]]. [[note]] There is evidence that Bruce genuinely feared for Meader's career, as the two had kept a wary friendship for a few years. [[/note]] (Vaughn Meader was an impressionist who had been very successful with a spookily accurate impersonation of JFK, and his career did in fact come to an instant and total halt.)
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** "Are there any niggers here tonight!?" of Of course, taking it as straight-up Black Comedy misses the point.[[note]]He was performing in a club and he saw Dick Gregory and he improvised that line, then mocked how shocked the crowd must have been that he said it, then imagined an America where the word gets used so much that it loses all its meaning. As a certain Creator/ChrisRock routine some 30+ years later proved, we aren't there yet.[[/note]]
** He opened his first show after the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy by remaining pensively silent for a few moments and then saying "Boy, Vaughn Meader is fucked!"[[note]] Some versions of this quote have "Vaughn Meader is screwed."[[/note]]. [[note]] " There is also evidence that Bruce genuinely feared for Meader's career, as the two had kept a wary friendship for a few years. years.[[/note]] (Vaughn Vaughn Meader was an impressionist who had been very successful with a spookily accurate impersonation of JFK, and his career did in fact come to an instant and total halt.)
** He opened his first show after the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy by remaining pensively silent for a few moments and then saying "Boy, Vaughn Meader is fucked!"[[note]] Some versions of this quote have "Vaughn Meader is screwed.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Among the first comedians to do so, especially with his routine "How To Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties."
* {{Improv}}: As the liner notes for the album of his 1961 Carnegie Hall show say, Lenny wanted his performances to be the stand-up version of a jazz concert - demonstrated on the album itself when a chance bit of feedback launched him into a series of tangential free associations before returning to where he left off.
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* StreamOfConsciousness: As the liner notes for the album of his 1961 Carnegie Hall show say, Lenny wanted his performances to be the stand-up version of a jazz concert - demonstrated on the album itself when a chance bit of feedback launched him into a series of tangential free associations before returning to where he left off.
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* StreamOfConsciousness: As the liner notes for the album of his 1961 Carnegie Hall show say, Lenny wanted his performances to be the stand-up version of a jazz concert - demonstrated on the album itself when a chance bit of feedback launched him into a series of tangential free associations before returning to where he left off.
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** He opened his first show after the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy by remaining pensively silent for a few moments and then saying "Boy, Vaughn Meader is fucked!"[[note]]Some versions of this quote have "Vaughn Meader is screwed."[[/note]]. (Vaughn Meader was an impressionist who had been very successful with a spookily accurate impersonation of JFK, and his career did in fact come to an instant and total halt.)
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** He opened his first show after the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy by remaining pensively silent for a few moments and then saying "Boy, Vaughn Meader is fucked!"[[note]]Some fucked!"[[note]] Some versions of this quote have "Vaughn Meader is screwed."[[/note]]. [[note]] There is evidence that Bruce genuinely feared for Meader's career, as the two had kept a wary friendship for a few years. [[/note]] (Vaughn Meader was an impressionist who had been very successful with a spookily accurate impersonation of JFK, and his career did in fact come to an instant and total halt.)
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Creator/DustinHoffman played him in a 1974 biopic, ''Film/{{Lenny}}''. He's also a recurring character in ''Series/TheMarvelousMrsMaisel'' played by Luke Kirby.
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Creator/DustinHoffman played him in a 1974 biopic, ''Film/{{Lenny}}''. He's also a recurring character in ''Series/TheMarvelousMrsMaisel'' played by Luke Kirby.
Creator/LukeKirby.
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Badass Beard and Badass Mustache are being merged into Manly Facial Hair. Wicks that don't fit or are zero-context are removed.
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* BadassBeard: As things got worse for him, he shaved much less often than he had before.
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* WhamLine: Not from Bruce himself, but from Dick Schaap's obituary: "One last four-letter word for Lenny: Dead. At forty. That's obscene."
