Lenny Bruce CD retrospective

Xeni Jardin 9:56 am Wed Sep 22, 2004

Newsweek's Brian Braiker writes about a newly released collection of work by the groundbreaking comedian Lenny Bruce.

If a comic gets onstage and tells his audience "I am not a comedian," he'd better say something important — or really damn funny. Lenny Bruce — the hepcat who took his act from L.A. strip clubs to Carnegie Hall, redefining stand-up in the process — did both. Now, nearly 40 years after a fatal drug overdose, a dizzyingly complete six-CD collection of his trailblazing routines has been released.

"Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware" spans his career from his promising first performance in 1948 to the ravings of a haunted, hunted man the day before his death in 1966. The warts-and-all portrait includes hours of previously unreleased material and chronicles Bruce as he tilts against hypocrisy ("Censorship on the Steve Allen Show"), racism ("How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties") and religion ("Religions, Inc.").

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