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How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
An Autobiography
Contributors
By Lenny Bruce
Preface by Lewis Black
Foreword by Howard Reich
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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.
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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
Playboy, 8/3/16
Outside every American comedy club there ought to be a statue of Lenny Brucethe 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.”
Spectrum Culture, 10/11/16
Sheds light on the mind behind some of the most controversial comedy routines of the mid-20th century.”
- On Sale
- Aug 2, 2016
- Page Count
- 240 pages
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780306825309
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