Lenny Bruce

Woman's Day's 1964 Gallery of Cat Portraits Broke the Internet Before There Was One

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Woman's Day magazine Date: January, 1964 Publisher: Fawcett Publications Discovered at: Vermont Antique Mall, Queechee, Vermont The Cover Promises: The only thi ... More >>

Stand Up, Seriously. Or: When Lenny Bruce Got a Camcorder in Not Funny

LENNY BRUCE LIVES

Steve Cuiffo takes it back to Carnegie Hall

Lenny Bruce Isn't Served By "Lenny," Nat Hentoff Says

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 10, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 23 The hunting of Lenny Bruce By Nat Hentoff During the first half of the play, "Lenny," I was thinking primarily of how well Lenny's material stands up. Even when someone else is doing it -- five years aft ... More >>

Janis Joplin Makes her Voice Debut, Viva Takes Her Clothes Off, and Lenny is Finally Vindicated

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 22, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 19 Scenes by Howard Smith NEW YORK's golden ears came out ringing from the Saturday evening performances of Janis Joplin at the Anderson Theatre on Second Avenue. The two shows were the East Coast prem ... More >>

National Archives Now on Flickr

Couldn't we all use a little good news right about now? Here ya go: the National Archives has just gone on Flickr. Not the whole thing -- they're just getting started, but they already have over 3,000 images up there. Ansel Adams, Lenny Bruce, Harry Truman and a turkey, Pat Nixon and Big Bird, our ... More >>

Clip Job: Lenny Bruce Out a Window

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives April 1, 1965, Vol. X, No. 24 Bruce Injured While giving an imitation of "Superjew," Lenny Bruce fell 40 feet out of a San Francisco hotel window Monday. The 38-year-old comedian broke his arm and suffered possible back injuries. After ... More >>

Clip Job: Head-Shrinking the Lenny Bruce Conviction!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 26, 1964, Vol. X, No. 6The Bruce Conviction: A View from the CouchBy John TarburtonAn interesting article in the New York Times of November 5 recounts the conviction of Lenny Bruce on the previous day for giving "obscene performances" ... More >>

Clip Job: Lenny Bruce Obscenity Verdict -- Guilty!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 12, 1964, Vol. X, No. 4Court Says No to Bruce, He Must See PsychiatristThe latest appearance of Lenny Bruce in Criminal Court was another performance in the avant-garde theatre. And the curtain was a little late going up. At 10 a.m. l ... More >>

Clip Job: Feiffer Cross-Examined at Lenny Bruce Trial

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJuly 16, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 39How Many 4-Letter Words Can a Prosecutor Use?By Stephanie Gervis HarringtonSitting in on Lenny Bruce's current New York "obscenity" trial, one gets the feeling of being present at an historical event -- the birth of ... More >>

Clip Job: Ginsberg, Artists March for Freedom

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 30, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 28Drizzle Does Not Dim Ardor of Arts MarchersBy Michael SmithBraving a mean drizzle and the competition of a World's Fair opening, more than 200 practitioners and admirers of the various arts gathered at dusk last Wed ... More >>

Clip Job: Lenny Bruce Demands a Jury!

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 23, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 27Bruce's Lawyers Want Jury TrialA motion for a jury trial is being filed by the attorneys defending Lenny Bruce on obscenity charges brought against him in connection with his recent performances at the Cafe au Go Go ... More >>

Clip Job: Wilcock Fed Up with Blue-Nosed Bureaucrats!

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 9, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 25The Village SquareBy John WilcockThe things that have been happening here lately have just about driven me up the wall with outrage and frustration. Who are these so-called "judges" and "licensing officials," et cete ... More >>

Letters

Andrea Peyser Spreads War on Late-Night to Conan O'Brien; Jimmy Kimmel Seeks Non-Aggression Pact

The rightblogger War on Letterman, lovingly detailed here earlier, has opened a second front -- against Conan O'Brien. And they're bringing in the big guns -- that is, the New York Post's first-string scold, Andrea Peyser. "JOHNNY CARSON is rolling over in his grave," she begins. "Even the late L ... More >>

Clip Job: Lenny Bruce, Zen Comic

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMay 24, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 31Lenny Bruce in LondonBy Charles MarowitzMuch of the pro-reaction here to Lenny Bruce is fatuously eggheaded. The big guns on the London weeklies insist that Bruce is a moralist. Not only insist, but demand that he be ... More >>

Clip Job: More Queer Poetry from Mailer

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesFebruary 15, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 17A Study of Cancer in English Grammarthat                whatwhich                wouldwould ... More >>

Clip Job: Hentoff Remembers the Maine

Clip Job: Lenny Bruce, With His Shirt Off

Goat Island's The Lastmaker is a Final Ode to Itself

Starring a disbanding troupe some never knew was banded

A Smidge of Sentimentality in Goat Island's The Lastmaker

LAST HURRAH

Goat Island gives its final performance

Clip Job: Lenny Bruce and the Aging Hipsters

Clip Job: What Really Happens at the Obies

Clip Job: Lenny Bruce and the Hipper Than Thou

Constantine's Sword Crusades Against Crusades

Documentary examines the Catholic Church's history of anti-Semitism

Nat Hentoff's Greatest Hits

Excerpts from his first 50 years at the Voice

'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

Magical Musical Piss House

CBGB regular Jesse Malin remembers the late Hilly Kristal

Dong Hits for Jesus

Saturday 8/5

Resurrecting the Martyr of Comedy

NY Mirror

Horoscope

Theater

Lenny Bruce's Fear

He Will Run Out of Fare To The Supreme Court

The Birth of the 'Voice': 1955–1965

From the Beats to Civil Rights, Lenny Bruce to Warhol's Factory . . .

The Bohemian Diaspora

Naked Lunchbox

It's a strange, twisted, perverse, threatening, sinister world. Here comes Crumb!

Slicing raw nerves: The man who wouldn't hold his tongue

They Came for Bubba and I Said Nothing, for I Was Not a Love Sponge

Das Bootlegs

Hunting down verboten DVDs and videos on the Internet

Magical Mediocrity Tour

Can you imagine—the whole country wired to Terry Gross's bourgeois ass?

Fright Club

Fear Factor, a New TV Show, Covered Contestants With Live Rats for $50,000. Worth the Anxiety?

Big Brother at 'The Village Voice'

An ‘Unlimited Right’ to Surveil

headline

M.O.T.

Look Who's Talking

Bridal Paths

the ring cycle

Does Free Speech Include 'Fag'?

Why Were the Champions of Free Speech in New York Silent?