{"id":41,"date":"2007-10-13T16:31:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T20:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2007-10-13T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T21:01:51","slug":"happy-birthday-lenny-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Lenny Bruce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man who invented &#8220;yadda, yadda, yadda&#8221;, the inspiration for the cross-dressing Klinger in <em>M*A*S*H<\/em>, and the only guy to be granted a posthumous parden in New York history (in 2003 by George Pataki).  And he also was a American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist.  San Francisco columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herb_Caen\" title=\"Herb Caen\">Herb Caen<\/a> had <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lenny_Bruce\">this summary<\/a> of Lenny Bruce in 1959:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They call Lenny Bruce a sick comic, and sick he is. Sick of all the pretentious phoniness of a generation that makes his vicious humor meaningful. He is a rebel, but not without a cause, for there are shirts that need un-stuffing, egos that need deflating. Sometimes you feel guilty laughing at some of Lenny&#8217;s mordant jabs, but that disappears a second later when your inner voice tells you with pleased surprise &#8216;but that&#8217;s true&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"353\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LPlQyk37dwI&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Some Lenny Bruce quotations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"body\">The liberals can understand everything but people who don&#8217;t understand them.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"body\">Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"body\">A lot of people say to me, &#8216;Why did you kill Christ?&#8217; I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And of course, like every other subversive in America, Lenny Bruce had an FBI file, helpfully now public <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fadetoblack.com\/foi\/lennybruce\/fbifile.htm\">here<\/a>.  An account of his infamous trial is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/bruce\/bruce.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who invented &#8220;yadda, yadda, yadda&#8221;, the inspiration for the cross-dressing Klinger in M*A*S*H, and the only guy to be granted a posthumous parden in New York history (in 2003 by George Pataki). And he also was a American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist. San Francisco columnist Herb Caen had this summary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}