a: Lenny Bruce ~
b: Gertrude Stein of comedians
What:
"Bruce was the Gertrude Stein of comedians. Never popular himself-because he was too cryptic and too scatological for popular taste-he nevertheless influenced a whole generation of comics, just as Stein influenced Hemingway and that generation of writers. Her own work was a dead end (so was Bruce's), but out of that compost grew the buds of a flourishing school."
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Writer: Sydney J. Harris
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Date: Apr 5 2017 10:08 PM
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