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* 1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian ( b. 1925 )
Jello Biafra's biting lyrics tackled the sociopolitical concerns of the Reagan era with a distinct sense of morbid humor and satire, following in the footsteps of such earlier rock satirists as Frank Zappa and non-musical countercultural figures like Abbie Hoffman and Lenny Bruce.
* 1925 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian ( d. 1966 )
In 1961 Cook opened the Establishment club at 18 Greek Street in Soho in central London, presenting fellow comedians in a nightclub setting, including American Lenny Bruce.
* Lenny Bruce
** Comedian Lenny Bruce is sentenced to 4 months in prison, concluding a 6-month obscenity trial.
* August 3 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian ( b. 1925 )
** Lenny Bruce, American comedian.
Lenny is a 1974 American biographical film about the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Bob Fosse.
Worn out by a lifetime of tilting at Establishment windmills, Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose in 1966.
* Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce
It is less delicate than Lenny Bruce, less funny than Dr. Strangelove, but much funnier than The Loved One or What's New Pussycat?
Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.
Comedy writer and playwright Larry Gelbart has said that comedian Lenny Bruce ’ s attempt to be released from military service in World War II by dressing in a WAVES uniform was the original inspiration for the character of Klinger on the sitcom.
The 1960s had also seen the satire boom, including the creation of the club, The Establishment, which, amongst other things, gave British audiences their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from Lenny Bruce.
After Lenny Bruce, arrests for obscene language on stage nearly disappeared until George Carlin was arrested on 21 July 1972 at Milwaukee's Summerfest after performing the routine " Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television " ( the case against Carlin was eventually dismissed ).
Comedians, like Lenny Bruce, that since the late 1950s have been labeled " sick comedy " by mainstream journalists, have also been labeled with " black comedy.
" After Lenny Bruce, others have been Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Jimmy Carr, Frankie Boyle, Chris Morris and the Monty Python team.
Comedian Lenny Bruce and the club's owner, Howard Solomon, were arrested there on obscenity charges in 1964.
Howard Solomon not only had The Au Go Go Singers, but had also booked comedians such as George Carlin and Lenny Bruce.
By 1966, the police and the courts had managed to silence Lenny Bruce and taught him a lesson that he should not use " foul language " or disrespect the church and the law.
Though the police had managed to silence Lenny Bruce, George Carlin continued to do his controversial comedy.

Lenny and became
Also in 1999, Hurricane Lenny became the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded in the month of November.
In time Whitehouse and Enfield became disturbed that Loadsamoney was being seen in a positive light, rather than as a satirical figure, and they had him run over during a Comic Relief Red Nose Day show while leaving the studio after presenting host Lenny Henry with " the biggest cheque of the night "— a physically huge cheque for ten pence.
McKean directed one episode, and the characters became something of a phenomenon, even releasing an album as Lenny and the Squigtones in 1979, which featured a young Christopher Guest on guitar ( credited as Nigel Tufnel ; the name Guest would use a few years later as part of the spoof rock band, Spinal Tap ).
Dash became the replacement for ash in Debian and was expected to be the default / bin / sh for Debian Lenny.
In 2002, Pink started a headlining American, European and Australian tour, the Party Tour ; later, she became a supporting act for Lenny Kravitz's American tour.
Lenny Rutledge became a musical producer, and has his own studio.
After its formation, the depression gradually became better organized ; the NHC upgraded it to Tropical Storm Lenny on November 14, based on reports from the Hurricane Hunters.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Roxon became close friends with critic and rock manager Danny Fields, Village Voice journalist Blair Sabol, musician and writer Lenny Kaye ( later the guitarist in Patti Smith's band and compiler of the original Nuggets LP ), photographers Linda McCartney and Leee Black Childers and Australian academic, author and feminist Germaine Greer.
Returning to Winnipeg, Breau became a regular session guitarist recording for CBC Radio and CBC Television, and contributed to CBC-TV's Teenbeat, Music Hop, and his own Lenny Breau Show.
While playing for the Dodgers in 1990, he became involved in a brawl with Phillies ' center fielder Lenny Dykstra, who took exception to Dempsey's fraternization with the home plate umpire.
Lenny admired his great-uncle thereafter and when he became a street fighter he said that he considered every victory to be won on behalf of his vulnerable younger self.
On December 29, 2001, Don Nelson became the third coach in NBA history to win 1, 000 games, behind Lenny Wilkens and Pat Riley.
That year Oberman was cast as series regular " Beverly Jordan " opposite Michael Barrymore in Bob Martin, and became a lead performer in the award-nominated Lenny Henry in Pieces, starring comedian Lenny Henry, which ran until 2003.
Miss Hancock later left Lenny and Lodi, and Standards and Practices became simply XS until they both left or were released from WCW.

Lenny and known
To honor the 40th anniversary of the 1958 NFL Championship, also known as " The Greatest Game Ever Played ", the following participants of that game appeared during the coin toss ceremony: Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, Jim Parker, Art Donovan, Gino Marchetti, Frank Gifford, Roosevelt Brown, Don Maynard, Sam Huff, and Tom Landry, the defensive coordinator of the New York Giants.
Clancy Wiggum, more commonly known as ' Chief Wiggum ', grew up in Springfield, but is originally from Ireland and was among the same class and age group as Homer Simpson, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, Barney Gumble, and Marge Simpson ( née Bouvier ).
Michael John McKean ( born October 17, 1947 ) is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Squiggy's friend, Leonard " Lenny " Kosnowski, on the sitcom Laverne & Shirley ; and for his work in the Christopher Guest ensemble films, particularly as David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap.
The song itself achieved fame within the hip hop and subsequent electronic music communities when a former Downstairs Records employee known as Breakbeat Lenny compiled it onto his 1986 Ultimate Breaks and Beats bootleg series for DJs.
Lenny Kaye ( born December 27, 1946 ) is an American guitarist, composer and writer who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith Group.
Their next album Now I'm a Cowboy ( 1994 ), built on the themes of New Wave and contained Haines ' best known song, " Lenny Valentino ".
* Steven Miller ( actor ), UK actor best known for his role as Lenny Lyons in the long-running British medical drama Casualty
Leonard Harold Barker III ( born July 7, 1955 in Fort Knox, Kentucky ), better known as Lenny Barker or Len Barker, is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher.
Hurricane Lenny killed 17 as it tracked eastward across the Caribbean, the first hurricane known to do so for an extended time.
* In the scene when Marge fought all the bar lions, and is about to hurl Lenny, the song " Adagio for Strings " by Samuel Barber, a song which is known for heard in the movie Platoon, plays in the background.
Leonard John " Lenny " McLean ( 9 April 1949 – 28 July 1998 ), also known as " The Guv ' nor ," was an East End of London bareknuckle fighter, bouncer, criminal and prisoner, author, businessman, bodyguard, enforcer, weightlifter, television presenter and actor, and has been referred to as " the hardest man in Britain ".
In the episode, Homer discovers that Lenny and Carl are members of the ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters.
While Tucker directed his first six feature films in the span of two years ( while still in his mid-twenties ), he is best known for his first film, the science fiction B movie Robot Monster, often considered an example of " so bad it's good " film-making in the Ed Wood vein, and for the Lenny Bruce movie Dance Hall Racket.
In addition, Greg was known as a record collector, archivist, and historian, and started the " Pebbles " series in the early-1980s, a project inspired by Lenny Kaye's 1972 Nuggets reissue.
Leonard White III, better known as Lenny White ( born December 19, 1949 ) is an American jazz fusion drummer, who is best known for playing in Chick Corea's Return to Forever.
Martin Leonard Skutnik III ( born 1953, Mississippi, known as Lenny ) is a former American employee of the Congressional Budget Office.
Since then, others who are invited into the Presidential gallery and honored in the speech have been known among the Washington press corps as Lenny Skutniks.
Wisin & Yandel have collaborated with internationally known artists such as R. Kelly on " Burn It Up ", Paris Hilton on the reggaeton remix to her debut single " Stars Are Blind ", Ja Rule on " Rakata ( Remix )", Lenny Kravitz on " Breathe " ( a promotional song for Absolut Vodka ), Mexican Pop group RBD on " Lento ( Yandel )", compatriots La Secta AllStar on " Llora Mi Corazón ", Fat Joe on " Jangueo ", Nelly Furtado on " Sexy Movimiento ( Remix )", 50 Cent on " Mujeres In The Club ", " No Dejemos Que Se Apague " and " Así Soy " along with G-Unit, Akon on " All Up 2 You " along with Aventura, Enrique Iglesias on " No Me Digas Que No " and " Gracias a Tí ", Gloria Estefan on " No Llores ( Remix )", T-Pain on " Imaginate ", " No Dejemos Que Se Apague ," and in a remix for " Reverse Cowgirl ", and Jennifer Lopez on " Follow the Leader.
She was well known for her unique, thorough interview style, and through her various shows, she has interviewed the likes of the Bee Gees, Darren Hayes, Lenny Kravitz, Britney Spears ( one of her first interviews ), Moby, Destiny's Child, Travis, and much more.
Funk joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) on June 19, 2002 as Bruce, a " homosexual " gimmick, forming a short-lived tag team with Lenny Lane known as The Rainbow Express.
He is best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Lenny Lane.
She may be best known for appearing in the comedy series The Lenny Henry Show, where she played Tanya and Mrs. Omokorede, the pushy Mum.
He is best known for his bestselling book on Lenny Bruce and his controversial biographies of Elvis Presley and John Lennon.

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