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In the end, Lenny Bruce lay on the bathroom floor of his Hollywood Hills home, sprawled out in the nude, dead of a drug overdose.
Aug 3, 2016 · Lewis Black on Lenny Bruce: “There hasn’t been a comic who has worked since Lenny who doesn’t owe him a debt of gratitude.” By Betsy Sherman On August 3, 1966—the summer’s day on which comedian Lenny Bruce died of a drug overdose at age 40 in his Los Angeles home—I was probably preoccupied with day camp.
Sep 27, 2018 · The comic Lenny Bruce was brilliant, profane and self-destructive. After Bruce's death at age 40, his widow and their daughter started archiving all that he had left behind.
Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy that combined satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. [2]
Aug 1, 2016 · Lenny Bruce died half-naked, alone and broke on a bathroom floor in Los Angeles, with a needle stuck in his arm. The official cause: a morphine overdose. He was 40 years old.
Jul 16, 2021 · According to The JC, his body was found in his bathroom with a syringe in his arm. On the same day, he had received a foreclosure notice, but his death was not a suicide. When the police arrived, they found a kettle of water turned on and an electric typewriter with an unfinished sentence.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Lenny Bruce was an American stand-up comic and satirist who became a target for prosecutors and a poster boy for freedom of speech.
