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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
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Birth: | 13th October, 1925 |
Death: | 3rd August, 1966 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Comedian, Critic |
Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His private life was marked by substance abuse and promiscuity as well as efforts to prevent his wife from working as a stripper. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in New York State history, by then-Governor George Pataki in 2003.
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