For the old-school fans of comedy, Lenny Bruce doesn’t really need an introduction. But for the rest of America, younger generations have only come to realize who this guy is from the series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Let it be known that while Mrs. Maisel may be a fictional comic, Lenny Bruce was very much a real, popular, and very controversial figure during the ‘50s and early ‘60s.
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He was the kind of comedian who spoke about the taboo topics of the era, like race, rights, drugs, sexuality, politics, religion, and basically anything that made American suburbia tick. He was the standup comic with “sick humor,” arrested too many times to even count, but he eventually became an icon within the intellectual community in his battle over First Amendment rights. Meanwhile, all the authorities wanted was to put him behind bars.