Lenny Bruce - How To Relax Your Colored Friends At Parties (1961)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Classic comedy bit from controversial satirist Lenny Bruce and Eric Miller. Originally appeared on Lenny Bruce: American (1961) © Fantasy Records.
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Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and screenwriter. He was renowned for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenitytrial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in New York State history, by then-Governor George Pataki in 2003. He paved the way for future outspoken counterculture-era comedians, and his trial for obscenity is seen as a landmark for freedom of speech in the United States. www.lennybruce.org
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Lenny Bruce was society's mirror. He set the bar for every comic that came after him. Fearless brilliance.
He's still their mirror, overdosed naked on a toilet bowl.
Thanks to this fella, we got Pryor and Carlin as they were. Basically most comedians who push the envelope of people's sensibilities of the 1st amendment. Cheers, Mr. Bruce.
Blazing Saddles would never have been made without Lenny.
Lenny was like the Jesus of comedy in many ways
Um no. Lenny Bruce was Lenny Bruce. Richard Pryor was Richard Pryor. Edgy comedy wasn't started by him. Raw race comedy has always been I. The Black community. Richard Pryor grew up in a whorehouse and tried to be a crossover comic like Bill and started talking about his life on-stage with people from his neighborhood, not bits. It had nothing to do with Lenny.
@@jamesb8193 man you couldn’t be more wrong. Comedic actor Richard Pryor owes his success to underground stand-up hero LENNY BRUCE - because listening to the funnyman "changed his life".
The BREWSTER'S MILLIONS star, 63, forged a Hollywood career after a successful stint on the live stand-up comedy circuit until drug addiction and ill health hit - and Pryor identifies Bruce's influence as the catalyst for his work.Pryor was fascinated by Bruce’s powerful use of coarse language and sexual talk to challenge his audiences in a more truthful way. Bruce’s work and his death by overdose in August 1966 became a catalyst for Pryor’s own evolution. You probably just don’t wanna give a white man cred for influencing a black comic ,everyone can influence each other dude !
💯💯
this dude got in trouble with the law for doing something we take for granted today: stand-up comedy
it's funny because so many complain about how sensitive people are "nowadays" as if no one got offended before the internet
@@4reptar207 yeah but back then people that weren’t mindless sheep that followed the media blindly
@@axidhaus do you have any evidence of that? sensational journalism has been around for decades lol. The main thing that seems to have changed is we've gotten more politically polarized. People have always been getting offended by stupid things, it's just those things change over time
@@4reptar207 I’m saying that real people don’t believe any news blindly ... do you believe that the news is about truth or marketing ideology
He also got introuble for fraud and "impersonating a priest while asking for donations to help a leper colony" lol. Legendary.
It's sad Lenny died so young. He had so much laughs to give us.
Heroin isa BITCH
@Adam Malec I read an overdose
@Adam Malec Drug overdose.
@Adam Malec Drug addiction.
What kind of drugs?.. sad he was soo great ✨
*REM* "LENNY BRUCE IS NOT AFRAID!"
wow I appreciate that song a lot more now...
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
It's interesting to experience the sharpest social satire from each Era. The lessons to be learned are all in the contrasts. Thanks to Mr. Lenny Bruce for the courage to hold up that mirror even while being persecuted relentlessly for it.
Amen. Its not easy (especially back then when social media couldn't rail to support you) to purposefully and forcefully step out time after time, night after night, and to go straight to the heart of society's misplaced comfort zone and to keep going at it with a smart, articulate, funnyAF pick ax.
He even makes a crack here about "have a drink, this'll keep you off the drugs". Love if
give me a break , he was just a dirt junkie .
@@christopherstarr8050 People love remembering people for their worst actions not their best.
"...crow Jim.."
Reelblack, this is great stuff! Thanks! I'm in my forties, so Lenny Bruce was before my time; I only got put on to him a few years back hearing Pryor say in an interview how much he idolized him, and how it was Lenny Bruce that inspired him switch from the clean bit he originally did to the soul revealing Pryor we know and love. I know Pryor was the greatest, but, for those who don't know (and, judging from the comments, they seem to be many) Bruce was more Pryor than Pryor--and long before Pryor! He was the originally junkie comic, pouring his pain and outrage at American culture out on stage just like Pryor--albeit, obviously, from a White perspective. Pryor was controversial, yes; but police used to raid Lenny Bruce shows routinely and arrest him and the whole audience! (George Carlin talks about, before he got big, attending a Lenny Bruce show just to get arrested with him!) The last year of his life, he couldn't complete a single show: Babylon shut down every one! Constant police harassment (and lotsa drugs!) eventually drove him to his death. Reelblack (and anyone else who's interested), there's a great interview online with Rain Pryor, George Carlin's daughter, Lenny Bruce's daughter. Not the Queens, maybe, but definitely the Princesses of Comedy!
No REAL Pryor fan would ever disrespect Lenny Bruce!
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Morons think freedom of expression is free... Lenny was imprisoned for just saying words
Relief comes in many ways to those in need, but the comic variety saves more lives than all the others put together. Lenny knew this.
So true!!
Lol I would say most of us black folks have been in these awkward conversations like this
Til this very day fam
Ironically nobody knows who Thomas sowell or Malcolm x is
@@axidhaus Malcom tried to warn people about the wolves in sheep’s clothing and Mr. Sowell , said let no one hold you back. Get this Martin Luther King Jr is rolling in his grave. Played big time this is what the people who formed the KKK planned out starting shortly after the civil war control the big cities and larger counties . Bring in the skilled workers from the south and put them in the plants slowly ratchet up the taxes. Build ghettos once you break them down . Soon you will have them begging for the good old days and better yet convince them that the evil ones are the people telling them work hard let no one hold you back. Hell people think Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat better yet they have no idea Martin Luther King was a Republican. First they got the black Americans to call themselves African American now the call them people of color. Funny how you change the position of words . Colored people offensive people of color not. Now we are moving towards self segregation. It is amazing also how anything that can really help they put stink on it and hide truth by calling everything racist. Thomas Sowell is called an Uncle Tom see no one read the book because if they did they would know about who the bad guy was Sambo. There are plenty of Sambos that self anoint themselves as a community leader or get elected and do the least for those who just need a hand up . No the hand out is used to control. Good news though the game is starting to be seen . God bless black Americans they are part of the great American culture and I will never pretend I am any better than them. I have nothing but high expectations. Yet somehow we now have a bigot of the highest caliber in charge a guy who was freinds with Robert Byrd a man actual clan member. He was a segregationist and still is . Saying things like he did not want his kids to go to school in a racial jungle. But the other guy who says parts of Baltimore are rat infested hell holes is called a racist for stating facts . No these demons in control now love the murder and crime in the inner cities one way they control it is with planned parenthood. Helps keep the black American population down to a manageable 13% like the founder Margret Sanger would call them weeds .
Wolves in sheep’s clothing said Malcom X and yet people still voting for them no wonder he described them as chumps .
@@theartistbonez1930 The ppl who formed the KKK were conservatives. Lol They are also the ancestors of the ppl who claim the confederate flag is their heritage. Who are these ppl you say...well in 2021 they still call themselves conservatives (which they have never been by definition), but they vote Republican now. Any adult who doesn't know what the southern strategy entails should really spend less time on youtube and more time with books. Oh and you have to actually read the words in those books to get smarter...thank me later.
@@theartistbonez1930 i love how yall just decided to pretend the party switch didnt happen once it became convenient for u
Almost 60 years later and this is still a good bit.
What would u say is the good part about this white person profiting and joking about the mistreatment of black people?
@@gabremurphy is that what you heard maybe you should listen again and take in to context that in 1960’s here is a white man standing up for the rights of his black friends and showing how white liberals pander to blacks ... see me I don’t give a shit I don’t pander ....
@@gabremurphy Go get all hotep with someone else brotha lol.
@@r.j.w7924 wow, is there anything else you want to add to that?
@@gabremurphy Just talking one Black man to another I assume.🤷🏾♂️
Something which speaks volumes of his character was the way in which many struggling talented women stand-ups regarded him and his standing up for them beyond lip service. He wasn't scared to draw a line and stand. And is why many 'industry' folk held him high too. He'd seen them ok when times were hard in various ways that made a difference.
When I listen to this monologue, I can't help but think that Lenny Bruce could have been the inspiration for the creation of the character Archie Bunker, ten years after this routine was recorded.
One of the great album covers of all time, and an album that features Lenny in top form, doing his best material. I love "white collar drunk" and "comic at the palladium." "Lima, OH" deserves honorable mention, too. Todays late night tv comics love acting like they are being edgy, saying something naughty, but they are baby food compared to what Lenny did and when he did it. I have a friend who was babysat by LB. This person's father and LB tried to get them to smoke reefer. No kidding!
Percentage of this comment section talking about liberals getting offended by this: 75%
Percentage of this comment section actually made up of liberals getting offended: 0%
RandyPantheGoatBoy It’s pretty clearly a piece mocking casual white racism, ahead of its time. All the pseudo Trump-y “y’all couldn’t do this in these PC times” comments are coming from people who don’t even understand the bit. Which isn’t at all surprising.
The thing is people really confused. What a liberal is. 0 liberals would ever get offended by this. Because liberalism means the belief in Liberty freedom of speech would be what? Now progressives are leftist. I guarantee you if you play this at a woke left-leaning party, someone would get mad and call it white supremacy or something crazy. Barack Obama is a liberal AOC is a progressive. They are not friends.
Always love me some Lenny!
Sir are u a white person?
"here's to the Mau Mau's " EPIC!
“You wanna come over to my house, it’ll be dark soon..” was probably the best line
I’m sad that so many people are missing what he’s doing. Love each other. We aren’t here very long. Help make the world a better place by not being an ignorant person.
Where are you Saying Penny fits into it? The man was fearlessly calling out the stupidity in even the progressive populations "fake nice" racism. I mean he is a comedy hero and didn't give a fuck if it ended his career.... yeah but life more impressively. He had a very simple and unimpressive way of doing it in today's context... but to put a platform and mic on stage in that way unapologetically for years often being imprisoned for crude language alone wasn't suicide so much as a plea for insanity and a begging for a mercy kill to others. Fames never an option when career suicide is prevalent every time. He then inspires Carlin and Pryor to follow after
@Rocky Stone Your comment is so absurd I can only presume you are trolling me. Have a great day!
Exactly. #TeamChappelle. ;)
Brilliant!!! Simply brilliant!!
Very original, he spoke about things that weren't spoke about at that time and of course very funny
How is this still so relevant?! Great art stands the test of time...... and racism is still real
Dani Woodson - Do you think these jokes were racist?
Yeah, black racism is more real than ever...You think only white people can be racist? Starting with Malcolm X, Black Panthers, and Black lives matter, black racism is more and more prominent, in USA, and, of course in Africa that is common spot, especially South Africa...
Lighten up
@@onekerri1 I interpret her comment as saying that this sort of behavior by white people - who actually think they're being friendly - still goes on. And it does.
Yep try being white in the west
A comedic genius. Using people's bigotry Great stuff
Lenny Bruce IS a effin legend
What makes this guy a legend sir?
@@gabremurphy he was sued for his comedy routines. First comedian to have that done i do believe. He pushed boundaries for free speech for comedians and artists
damn thats so funny. really awesome
Orange pill channel sent me here. Thanks Max and Stacy for yet another history lesson.
Lenny was not PC and he wasn't a racist he made a good point LIGHTEN UP PEOPLE. and LAUGH
Name one person upset by this.
This is PC he’s literally making fun of people being accidentally racist
Interesting comment. Sir are u classified as a white person?
The problem is that Lenny is showing how white liberals pander and yet people aren’t picking up on their subtle nuances .... the character he’s playing basically sounds like joe Biden to me...
@@gabremurphy you’re like the king of ignorance
I find it sad that people feel the need to explain that Lenny wasn't a racist and wasn't mocking black people and so on.
They're projecting.
Hearing a lot of George Carlin in this!
Most definitely
Other way around buddy, but I know what your saying.
No disrespect, you hear a lot of Lenny Bruce in George carlin.
@@maumbu right
@@wc2433 Thank you!
Lenny Bruce was on the first episode of Playboy’s Penthouse, filmed in Chicago for syndication in 1959. There was only 1 desegregated club in town at the time so the show was NOT representative of its own city, or its own people who would buy white babies from Quebec City rather than adopt locally. I escaped this fate and was adopted in my own culture. The show it was refused in markets where people were dead set on separation. They thought themselves very clever with their entry-level “seperate but equal” bullshit. So you have to put yourself in this mindset to get the context.
You were and always will be my hero
Interesting. Are u classified as a white person?
From George Carlin to Phil Hendrie, this man made satire a modern art masterpiece!!
I find it interesting that 60 years ago, this was cutting edge and groundbreaking. 30 years ago it was very tame and old hat. A relic of the past that didn't hold up. Today, it's back to being on the edge in the ultra pc era of identity politics.. Very interesting.
Crow Jim!
The true genius of Lenny Bruce right here.
Sir are u classified as a white person?
"You know I voted for Obama"
Ned Sanders 😁😁😂😆😆😆😆😉😆😆😆😆😆😆you don't say,Sherlock.😆😆😆!!!!!!!!!!!
@@lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597 You sound hysterical.
So you admit you're an idiot?
“Would you like some peanut butter? Speaking of which, did you know that...?”
Toby 10 Bears in what way? Voting for someone who actually studied (actually _read_ ) the US Constitution makes him an idiot? You voted for a corrupt admitted tax evading misogynist, right? What level of stupid does that make *YOU* ?
This is brilliant.
"Here's to Bojangles" xD
Brilliant!
Lenny was a genius, saying these things back then [in 1961] that would get you banned or thrown in jail [which he was]. It pains me that we can be so blind with hatred and anger we lash out at any non-black in our midst. This man was for justice and truth and ahead of his time. He was an ally! If a non-black comes into your neighborhood going to a store/mall he's we should be able to detect if he's an ally and needs to be treated as such. Lenny Bruce was one of those cats who was on the side of truth especially being an artist. Back then artists [musicians comedians ect] had a special undivided world. But I digress...
He's a loser like you he's nothing but a drug addict he has one daughter and apparently he didn't want to watch her grow up he chose drugs over his own kid I'm glad she lost her father
Lenny's
@@kellynorman7452 someones got daddy issue...
Kelly Norman why are you so angry?
Someone can be a bad dad and do good. People aren’t all good, and some are all bad. But that’s doesn’t mean he didn’t change things for the better
@@kellynorman7452 a whole discussion about Lenny Bruce, no one brings up Kelly Norman to discuss....someone isn't very relevant.
Great post! hahahahahaha this material is too taboo for today's society but it's comedic value is rooted in the fact that it is so taboo.
Bravo reelblack for your bravery in posting this. I thoroughly enjoyed it :)
really? bravery? come on. yes thankful for the post as well. but describing it as a brave thing when lenny bruce was the brave one
Damn he looks smacked lol
He was
Brilliant
George Carlin must have studied this man vigorously.
This guy was considered a criminal... for the crime of comedy
They wer good friends... they both got arrested together at some point 1962 I think... Carlin kinda stepped into his position n carried this kind of satire on to what it became
Funny I love Lenny Bruce but hate G. Carlin
@@coryhart1089 who the fu*k hates Carlin? How is that possible?
And Mort Sahl. Find Sahl's take on Richard Nixon.
I am African American. I grew up on cream of wheat and those delicious aunt Jemima buckwheat pancakes 🥞🥞🥞🥞 yummmmeee!!! I had to stop the video I got so hungry.
Here's to Bojangles, every two miles in n.c.
Is this a vinyl or a cd
It's “The Huge Giant Midget Show,” starring the late Frances Melville, who said, “Well, okay, I guess...I missed you so much. I thought that you had run off with an egg farmer. Have you noticed the price of eggs lately? Eggs & beef are tax-subsidized. I've been workin' outside to lose my inside status, or, Is he a 2nd cousin? It's okay in most states.”
Straight up g
Good advice but all my friends are transparent and they dont go to parties.
underrated comment
the mam that influence many comedians, Whoopi slays her stand up and idolized him too, although I don't line Whoopi.
You mentioned Whoopi!
Check out what LB says at 4:25
His comment about drinking a tablespoon of oil to coat his stomach, because he hasn't eaten, and wants to drink all night.
Watch her movie BURGLER
with Bobcat Goldthwait. Great movie! In my opinion, so many great scenes, but Bobcat literally uses the same phrase in a store because he's going to get drunk.
On this day, 8/3/1966, just 5 years after this recording, Lenny Bruce was found dead.
OD'd on heroin, possibly a suicide.
This is basically one of the main themes of Get Out.
He made the joke before it was cool
To bad it was a retarded movie
Waaaay ahead of his time. Pity he is so misunderstood. A lot of people probably dont get his humour.
He is because just making jokes in the the 50’s was a crime ... but you think that freedom of expression was always free
Very interesting sir. Wat exactly would u say is funny about a white person making jokes about the mistreatment of black people?
@@gabremurphy so you didn’t listen to the skit that he is doing with his black friend.... ugh I can’t help you understand if you’re putting it in today’s context....
@@gabremurphy there’s a funny element to it. The situation he’s talking about is not that serious to me. It’s not like he’s talking about people being lynched. Black people make the same joke about how white people pandering and trying to relate to us because they aren’t around us often.
@@benblak23 u can laugh at the mistreatment of black people as much as u desire sir. Doesn't sound intelligent, however laugh on.
This shit is gold.
Hard to hear what name he is saying in the beginning: "Eric Miller," Lenny's dear friend, and hepp guitarist, as well as a rare second-banana in a few of Lenny's routines that required a second actor, i.e. Lenny's version of "The Defiant Ones."
Eric: "Dufy Blue....." Mr. Anderson (Lenny): "That sounds like a lotta Commie horse-shit to me!" I was deep into this stuff at AGE 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~E
Maaaan Lenny Bruce, what a mother effer.
That's pretty amazing. You couldn't get away with a lot of that nowadays. To start singing "all the watermelon in the world" lmao
Y'all know he didn't "get away with it" back then either, eh? He was arrested time and again for doing this kind of act, because the white people who heard it didn't think he ought to be so critical of other white people. You can argue until you're blue in the face about whether this sort of act would've taken off or been considered acceptable broadly speaking today, but I don't recall any comedians being arrested for "indecency" recently. In fact I can think of some *not* being arrested for being *actually* indecent off stage. The facts show us Lenny Bruce would've been more accepted today than he was in his time, so consider that next time you get nostalgic for when America was "great."
@@MackJCM Exactly. This kind of comedy is more acceptable today than it was back then. It's like people in these comments don't seem to realize he's making fun of casually racist white people. It's something I still see all the time today.
A Satirical portrayal of an ignorant bigot in full unrestrained glory. Possibly a relative? An uncensored pre-curser to “Archie Bunker” from the 70’s hit tv show “All in The Family”.
Humor as a means of social commentary. A palatable way to say the unsayable. Measured in impact, not by the “laugh count”.
Yeah, the part Lenny plays here totally reminds me of Archie Bunker
If you're upset because you believe this is just white supremacist language or inheritantly racist, you are completely missing the point and you should probably seek therapy.
Straight up. Lenny Bruce was no holds barred comedy. Love him. FYI, yes, this is my real picture.
This is where he shined.....couldn't do this now.....so the frontier is gone .....
Has anyone seen "Thank You Masked Man" a cartoon about The Lone Ranger. It is on RUclips
Anyone here after listening to the Joe Rogan/Andrew Schultz podcast?
The phrase "way ahead of his/her time" is overused, but in this case it is true. Lenny's comedy is way ahead of his time.
I think he's firmly of his time. The stuff doesn't hold up, but it was hip and perfect for that time.
Not racist, of his time and somewhat ahead of his time. Can’t judge the past with current standards.
He’s not being racist by the standards of any time. He’s making fun of racists.
Way ahead of his time
This Is Hilarious! Then and now.
What would u say is the funny part of this white male So-called joking about the mistreatment of black people?
@@gabremurphy he is making fun of white people being ignorant trying to relate to the only black person at a party
Rip Aunt Jemima
wow Reelblack you go waaaay back to make the point our current society needs to remember so we don't relive the horrors of yesterday
This is the same thing happening in 2021.....lol and sad.
This is “Do you watch Empire?” about 60 years ahead of time lmao
Lenny Bruce imitating the modern democrat
Beatnik’s were doing the same shit
A full ten years before Archie Bunker.
I think if somebody made that Mau Mau gag today, they would be accused of being a terrorist. Fortunately, he was a jazz guitar player so it would not affect his employment probably.
Critical Social Justice freaks could learn something from Lenny Bruce.
It’s funny because he’s actually making fun of white people.
Would it be funny if he were making fun of black people?
No sht Sherlock.
@@patrickbyrne5070 Keep digging Watson.
Colored is now taken as a racial slur. Lenny got busted for narcotics and obscenity so many times. Sorry for his fatal drug OD. Not worth the cost.
You know, Lenny was genius; but while he did a lot of bits on race relation stuff and discrimination people suffered, I never heard him speak on other forms of discrimination (people do it all the time, people who are too short, too fat, too skinny, not physically attractive, have a stray eye or are cross-eyed (or suffer some other form of physical, mental, etc. condition), thousands of ways people discriminate (legally and otherwise). Even the US military says their honor guards at the tomb of the unknown have to be a certain height (above the military's min. height for entry but of course below the max. height for entry), a case of legal (?) discrimination (still stuck on people of lesser height have "a complex" I suppose), and some of the general public still needing their hero's to be tall (dark, and handsome as well...might as well go for the triple crown?). I certainly agree sometimes we need to discriminate (this job requires a BS in chemistry as a mnimum requirement, you must have a SAT/ACT/ASVAB score of *** to be accepted, you must do at least 40 push-ups, followed by at least 50 situps, followed by 1 1/2 mile run within maximum time allowed for your age group to continue serving in US military, City of *** Police or Fire Department, etc.). It's also too easy to discriminate undeservedly (someone with sever acne or warts, craters all over their face, speaks with a stutter or a lisp, easy to stare at someone who looks odd too, but its' not always about race, religion, ethnicity, all kinds of ways we discriminate). Just think about it. RIP Lenny!
I am not sure if that is the satarist’s job. Lenny was about challenging the law and pushing the boundaries of society. Questioning taboo and pointing out hypocrisy. I’m not sure if our culture ever legalized the discrimination against short old or fat. The number one rule in comedy is to never make fun of the less powerful, but to expose that the emperor has no clothes. Today I think he would be pointing his laser beam at equality for women and immigration. Short people and old people may be prevented from certain opportunities, but it doesn’t stop them from having power.
That was as well said as if I had said it myself!! Serious.
Because that's cool to joke about what do you call a man with only one arm and leg?
twice as capable as a woman
Sorry that's old joke I should change it to fit the times what do you call a man with one arm and one leg?
The Woman's heavyweight champ
This is what they want America to be again freely. Great.
With the cancel culture as it is. This can happen to any comic today. What goes around comes around. 🎭🇺🇸
It's odd, more people are upset by political correctness than there are politically correct comments complaining. I don't see one person complaining accept the people who want to show off how non P.C. they are.
"Why are all these SJW feminazi cucks trying to stifle the intellectual discussion by calling us names?"
Thought this was gonna help....
He expresses programed mass generational propaganda racism perfectly.
When will this pain end?
When? Dear God, when?
Tomorrow.
Are you God?
Info wars is owned by Time Warner.
Not true
It's a satire on white people of the time. Unfortunately you cannot do satire anymore, because it requires intelligence. People are dumbed down to what they can understand by watching the media, which is targeted for twelve year olds. So if you are playing a character that you want to make fun of, they think you are serious and are a bad person. It's impossible now for an audience to perceive "intent"; they respond literally to words and phrases that are "branded" for meaning. They cannot interpret "context". The funniest gag here is the line about "here's to the Mau Mau's". That was a murderous African rebellion against white people which the white character in this skit would not know about. When you do a character, it doesn't mean in your personal life you are that character, or you think like that character. You are doing it to expose the character using satire. Its amazing now, how many things are condemed that the accusers don't even understand. This is more effective that a black comedian making jokes about white people, yet would probably me misunderstood completely. But the Catholic established persecuted Bruce from one end of the country to the other because of his satire of the Church, their wealth and political clout. A great example of "context" is Bruce's arrest in Chicago for obscenity. He used a word that was considered obscene in the routine. That was considered illegal. But to convict him, a detective had to read back a transcript of the same act in the court room, including the same obsene word the same number of times. Bruce's use of the word in a night club was considered obsene, immoral and illegal. The detective's use of the word in the court room was considered testimony. His point being, the meaning of a word, whether it is offensive or not, is purely contextual. Yet, most points made in the media today and in any commentary methodically take comments out of context.
That's an excellent description . I am beginning to feel foolish for even having what I used to think were normal reactions to practically everything that exists outside my own skin for fear of how it'll be considered, and then, feel silly and traitorous to my ego. The upside is the older I get the less shits I give, if it crosses my mind it comes out my mouth. I've noticed that those around me are in constant nervous anticipation , not so much of what I say next , but their hope that all involved will "get it" , and I don't cause the next revolution. So.. there's that...
You know I had to try and make a living for a long while on the internet as a single parent. There is software you have to use to analyze your text. It tells you when you are targeting at too high an intelligence level. If you do, you can't sell anything. For some reason, when people read anything on the internet, they respond like an adolescent: 12-13 years of age. Satire is complex and sophisticated art form. It cannot be understood by a 12 year old; neither can issues like "context". People used to learn about their world by talking to each other and their experiences. Now they rely on the media. They are spoken to like children and respond like children. Unfortunately, if you have something serious to say, the internet is not the place to do it. And people have been conditioned to avoid complexity at all; they want to understand everything in a 30 second sound bite. You cannot really say much of importance or complexity that way. You certainly cannot launch a complex satire that way.
You eloquently nailed it. PC police, identity politics, extreme left, extreme right. I think more people get it than you'd think, but people are always trying to push their views and agenda they use anything they can turn on someone who opposes their view it's just become a gotcha-outrage culture. This will all turn around and move to the other end of the spectrum sooner than later and it can't come soon enough. We need a ring leader like George Carlin to lead us back into the light lol. Of course, George would be de-platformed and silence before he could get very far lmao
No most people understand. This is actually a very clever, but disgusting tactic. It's a form of gaining power over institutions, and anyone who strays from party line. This is a tactic the communists used and even sent out as a suggestion in the 50 or 60s. Saying to label "obstructionists" and opponents as racist, or any other of the most hated people in your society. And use the institutions especially the advocacy type institutions and groups that fight racism or any other universally disliked aspect in society to justify the accusastions.
Also describes how to take over institutions. While only needing to communists. Because they can work together and back each other up. Until they control the powerful positions. I believe they mentioned infiltration of universities as especially important. Now im not calling the progressives / radical left communists. But they have adopted their tactics. Rules for radical by saul alinsky who metored clinton basically rewrote all these tactics. Another is blame your opponent for what your guility of. Russian collusion? Steele dossier? Google Search Manipulation? With that said many are sympathedic or are marxists if not actually communists to varying degrees.
@@jon782 true story
Crazy how society has evolved so far that this is offensive again.
It's become Orwellian
bruce bruce
Question to reelblack the channel. Wat exactly is the purpose for this video?
Historical purposes. Lenny Bruce was a key influence on Pryor and Carlin. His peak years were the same time that Playboy and Mad Magazine were pushing boundaries. Most people probably are unfamiliar. These two bits are an introduction. This is satire. It should be viewed as such.
reelblack ok this was posted for ur so called historically purposes. Is this a channel where white people saying racists things is a form of funny comedy?
I'm just sharing the information. If you want to see where Lenny Bruce fits into the spectrum of the history of comedy, dig deeper. If not, let it go. If its not to your taste, or you its political incorrectness is dated/difficult to appreciate, thats cool. At the time, it was subversive to even do a comedy routine where a black person performed onstage with a white person. To represent the Black person as intelligent/non buffoon is also groundbreaking. You don't get All In The Family or even Richard Pryor's Word Association sketch on SNL without this recording from 1961. Put Eric Miller's character against Stepin Fechit. Listen to what Redd Foxx was doing at the same time or take in consideration that Dick Gregory was just bursting on the scene in 1961.
reelblack if I could get u to answer this question directly that would be greatly appreciated. Is this a channel where white people saying racist things is a form funny comedy?
Its a channel where we promote Black Culture. In addition to original films, music performances and content, occasionally I'll discover and post information that helps put today's conversations about race, representation and identity in context. I chose to post two comedy bits by Lenny Bruce from over 60 years ago on the channel as historical reference. I didn't tell you how to react. Apparently you were offended. If you asked, does this type of comedy have a place in today's society, I might have a better answer. But I am starting to think that somehow, because you check this channel regularly (which I am greatly appreciative), you are looking for validation or empowerment, not to advance an intelligent conversation about wether things have changed and if so, how.
Stop it already!
I think Lenny hates the Irish as well - but I could be wrong.
Love Lenny Bruce. Comedic genius. Fuck the PC culture.
I never laughed at any of his bits. I guess you had to be there🤷♂️
This wasn't even offensive, it just wasn't funny. I'd have to hear more of his work to see what Pryor saw in him. Iff it's just the shock value that is the reason why ppl like him then I'd have to say he isn't even very good at that. Maybe for that time period, but today this is mild for someone who grew up on Eminem, South Park, and Wonder Showzen. Lol
It was 1961 and before your time.
This sh#t is plain racist! 2019
The fitst richard pryor of comdey
There's only one Richard....Only one Lenny.
Landis Burnett richard took his style
@@landisburnett6035 And only one Hitler. Stupid comment.
Black comedians were way ahead of this. They didn't have the same restrictions.
i ahve been hearing about lenny bruce my whole life and i have yet to laugh at anything he eve said . All he was was a shock guy .
you have to take it to the time and social differences. He was pioneering a freedom of speech in comedy that was getting him arrested. In order to make a difference to society, he had to push the boundaries of what people were willing to accept in comedy. Which he did and which opened the doors for some of the greatest comedians of all time. They all start back at Lenny Bruce in terms of the artform.
@@marc404 oh give me a break ,. yea, lenny bruce died so we can say shit .what a croc of shit . he wasn't the least bit funny . I 'll take Tim Conway and his clean comedy over this dirtball any day .
christopher starr well you are simply wrong. You may not think he is funny, but to say he wasn’t important is one of the dumbest things you can possibly say.
@@christopherstarr8050 Millennial babble.
Not sure why all the comedians give this guy so much cred. I don't think he's that funny. Just sayin'
When Lenny does this stuff, it's satire. When I copy Lenny doing satire, I'm right wing. Welcome to comedy hell !
I am a westernized 16 year old and my humour is very far, far away from this style and culture. I am intrested in how this was able to make people of the time laugh, so what was it about Lenny Bruce that was so funny?
Freedom of speech is not about being nice; it's the right to say unpopular, vulgar, and especially hurtful things. There are limits, but the idea is that these are the exception not the rule. It is about not being a slave to words and their perceived meanings. Sorry I know your ? was about humor, and to be honest, I'm not 100% sure it's supposed to be "funny", maybe more thought-provoking than anything else.
I guess he found out what everybody else knew...he wasn't funny.