Lenny Bruce - The Persecution of Religion

Cliff nesteroff gives the example of lenny bruce in the fifties and early sixties. His persecution by the authorities is probably better remembered now than his jokes. The things he became notorious for, and eventually was hounded for and arrested for, were threefold. He would use what you might call salty language. He swore on stage in an era in which you could literally get arrested for obscenity and put on trial and sent to jail if you swore on stage. It was left to local avice squads to determine what was or was not obscene. And then the third thing that he was busted for was narcotics use. If he toured across north america and