Lenny Bruce

...died in New York. He was 85. D'Lugoff hired blacklisted singers Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger and booked jazz greats John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk and standup comics Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen. He once fired a waiter named...

In this article: Paul Robeson, Carl Ballantine, Robert H. Rines, San Diego, The Village Gate, New York, Thelonious Monk, Emmy, and John Coltrane

...Roth, Saul Bellow, Michael Chabon are not, principally, great Jewish writers, but great American ones; Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen (who cast Larry David in his latest film, Whatever Works), these are great American...

In this article: Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, George Costanza, Whatever Works, and DVD

...St Louis, where Fran started writing nifty song lyrics, while Jay opened the Crystal Palace nightclub, and introduced Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce et al to the Midwest. In 1964, the couple upped sticks for London, with six-year-old Cosmo and kid...

In this article: Cosmo Landesman, Dog, Playboy, Julie Burchill, and Woody Allen

...in a gig with his jazz band. Mr. Joffe was the brash, wise-cracking, cigar-chewing contract bargainer in the talent agency Rollins Joffe, which booked Lenny Bruce's first act in New York in the 1950s. The agency later mentored, among...

In this article: Charles H. Joffe, Woody Allen, Eric Lax, Jack Rollins, Billy Crystal, Academy Award, New York, and Los Angeles

...Village. Weintraub's discerning eye discovered and presented to the world such soon-to-be-famous acts as Peter, Paul and Mary, Lenny Bruce (with whom he was arrested for obscenity), Pete Seeger, Randy Newman, The Isley Brothers. The...

In this article: Fred Weintraub, The Bitter End, New York City, Charles Aznavour, Lily Tomlin, Bob Dylan, Harry Chapin, Stevie Wonder, and Ricky Nelson

...nightclub, "Cafe Society". He was a unique blend of the earlier style of the Yiddish theater, Vaudeville and Burlesque and started the tradition of monology such as later comedians Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen used. One of Gilford's...

In this article: Jack Gilford, Madeline Lee Gilford, McCarthy Era, Cracker Jack, Jerome Robbins, Carol Burnett, and George Abbott

Banducci operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick...

In this article: Hungry I, Bill Cosby, San Francisco, Enrico Caruso, Jonathan Winters, Woody Allen, Mort Sahl, and Caribbean

...of stand-up venturing into politics, race relations, and sexual humor. Lenny Bruce became known as a "sick" comic when he used language that sometimes led to his arrest. Other notable comics from this era include Woody Allen, Shelley Berman,...

In this article: HBO, The Comedy Festival, Emerson College, London, Opie and Anthony, Frank Fay, Chris Rock, Bill Cosby, and Jim Norton