How to Talk Dirty and Influence Peopl..., Lenny Bruce
How to Talk Dirty and Influence Peopl..., Lenny Bruce
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How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
An Autobiography

Author: Lenny Bruce, Howard Reich

Narrator: Ronnie Marmo

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 12/06/2016

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions; he widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, "So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed through the doors Lenny opened. He utterly changed the world of comedy."

Although Bruce died when he was only forty, his influence on the worlds of comedy, jazz, and satire are incalculable. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People remains a brilliant existential account of his life and the forces that made him the most important and controversial entertainer in history.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Crystal on May 28, 2012

This was a rare book left behind by the overweight and greasy lead singer of a band I booked once when I used to do that. I read it immediately and furiously like a masturbating teenager adopting Bruce's jargon as my own and made many decisions based on what I thought Lenny Bruce would do. When thos......more

Goodreads review by Coleman on August 07, 2017

Millenial left-leaning cucks such as myself are often credited for creating and proliferating the “Politically Correct Society” we supposedly find ourselves in, and I hate to perpetuate my own stereotype, but I must say I take offense to that. You see there’s a large sect of people who think we have......more

Goodreads review by Mark on March 04, 2021

Funny & Pointed! Social Commentary.......more

Goodreads review by Gabriel on May 18, 2012

There is an ebb and flow to the tale of classic comics. People are brought up on a basis similar to comets passing through the atmosphere. Someone dies and the comet appears a little quicker ("X lived in the shadow of Y who had paved the way for X to do their most famous bits ..."). Lenny Bruce's com......more

Goodreads review by Tosh on September 29, 2021

The legal stuff is not that much fun to read. On the other hand, his writings on the standup comic world is pretty great. And he’s funny!......more

Quotes

Praise for How to Talk Dirty and Influence People"I read this book for the first time when I was twelve years old. It made me want to be in showbiz, have a lot of sex, and be Jewish. I've rethought that last one." -Penn Jillette, author of God No!
"If there was a God, then he sent down Lenny Bruce to create the art form of modern stand-up comedy. He sought the truth fearlessly and hilariously until his tragically muffled First Amendment rights surely enabled his dying for our sins." -Richard Lewis, author of The Other Great Depression
"Outside every American comedy club there ought to be a statue of Lenny Bruce - the type of big bronze statue that commemorates and immortalizes heroes... Bringing Bruce's ideas and stories to a new generation might just be the next best thing to erecting those bronze statues." - Playboy, 8/3/16
"Sheds light on the mind behind some of the most controversial comedy routines of the mid-20th century." -Spectrum Culture, 10/11/16

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