Comments on: Obscenity and Paranoia: Lenny Bruce May Have Been Talking Dirty But I Barely Understood a Word http://semanticdrift.com/books/obscenity-and-paranoia-lenny-bruce-may-have-been-talking-dirty-but-i-barely-understood-a-word/ Waiting on a Re-Up Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:51:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: semanticdrifter http://semanticdrift.com/books/obscenity-and-paranoia-lenny-bruce-may-have-been-talking-dirty-but-i-barely-understood-a-word/#comment-458 semanticdrifter Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:20:40 +0000 http://semanticdrift.com/books/obscenity-and-paranoia-lenny-bruce-may-have-been-talking-dirty-but-i-barely-understood-a-word/#comment-458 Huh. As far as the "Be nice. Keep it clean." stuff, that's built into the wordpress theme and I never really thought about changing it. I suppose it is kind of ridiculous, especially for a Lenny Bruce post. Feel free to not keep it clean, if you're so inclined. As for Bruce, while he wasn't the first controversial comedian or even the most obscene, his material did go a long way toward pushing comedy into new areas. He poked and prodded around the corners of racism, hypocrisy, and religion at a time when those were seen as areas that comedy couldn't go. He was important for pushing boundaries and saying things that most people didn't want to hear. Huh. As far as the “Be nice. Keep it clean.” stuff, that’s built into the wordpress theme and I never really thought about changing it. I suppose it is kind of ridiculous, especially for a Lenny Bruce post. Feel free to not keep it clean, if you’re so inclined.
As for Bruce, while he wasn’t the first controversial comedian or even the most obscene, his material did go a long way toward pushing comedy into new areas. He poked and prodded around the corners of racism, hypocrisy, and religion at a time when those were seen as areas that comedy couldn’t go. He was important for pushing boundaries and saying things that most people didn’t want to hear.

]]> By: SKD http://semanticdrift.com/books/obscenity-and-paranoia-lenny-bruce-may-have-been-talking-dirty-but-i-barely-understood-a-word/#comment-457 SKD Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:51:48 +0000 http://semanticdrift.com/books/obscenity-and-paranoia-lenny-bruce-may-have-been-talking-dirty-but-i-barely-understood-a-word/#comment-457 How ironic that you tell commenters to "keep it clean and be nice,"etc, when commenting on Lenny Bruce. I also don't see how he was such a positive influence, or even an important one, when the best people he could manage to inspire were people like Howard Stern; yeah, he really improved the intellectual level of comedy for the future... How ironic that you tell commenters to “keep it clean and be nice,”etc, when commenting on Lenny Bruce.

I also don’t see how he was such a positive influence, or even an important one, when the best people he could manage to inspire were people like Howard Stern; yeah, he really improved the intellectual level of comedy for the future…

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