He was banned outright from several U.S. cities, and in 1962 an interview he was scheduled to give on Australian television was banned in advance by theAustralian Broadcasting Commission. After a brief stay in Pittsburgh the couple relocated to Los Angeles in 1953. Nevertheless, Lenny did his best to be a presence in Kittys life whenever he was home. His parents divorced when he was young, and Lenny lived with various relatives over the next decade. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Album Cover, ANU Museum of the Jewish People (formerly Beit Hatfutsot) Exhibit Project. [18], In 1953, Bruce and Harlow eventually left New York for the West Coast, where they got work as a double act at the Cup and Saucer in Los Angeles, California. We used to call it digging people, just seeing what theyre doing., When she was little, Krassner said, I remember he told me that they took showers together because he didnt want her to grow up thinking there was something dirty about the human body. Yes, of course, was always her answer. His mother helped him get on stage and perform. He and Harriet had one daughter, Kitty, born in 1955. At forty. After her stand-up debut during which she bares her breasts, Midge gets busted for indecency. I wanted to honor my fathers life, not with a plaque on the wall but something that would represent my father in his name and change lives., The foundation, a 501(c)(3), non-profit was set up to help women in early recovery. Bruce did give a famous performance at the Berkeley Community Theatre in December 1965. Obsessed that he never got a fair trial, he worked round-the-clock on letters and appeals, rarely leaving his typewriter. Your father had to throw up his guts in the kitchen while some master sergeant schtuped your mother for our chocolate and cigarettes., I will tell you that when he came back from fighting and saw a Whites only or Coloreds only signs in diners it absolutely infuriated him, Kitty said. Then one day I imagined him telling me, Come on Paul, you know you dont believe in that shit, channeling, and that ended it. His grave markers epitaph reads: Beloved father devoted son/Peace at last. His private life was marked by struggles with personal demons and efforts to prevent his wife from working as a stripper. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel executive producer and creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said she didn't need to do intense research into comedian Lenny Bruce's life for the show - because in some ways he was "family.". Geni requires JavaScript! ~ Lenny Bruce. The 1974 film Lenny starring Dustin Hoffman was based on his life; the documentary Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth was narrated by Robert De Niro and captures his struggles. The New York Times once described their six year marriage as Ozzie and Harriet as re-imagined by William S. Burroughs. The case was dismissed. He saw black blood spilled, white blood, Latin blood spilled. His idealistic humor is cherished even to this day. During this time, Bruce also contributed a number of articles to Paul Krassner's satirical magazine The Realist. The author of the bestselling biographies The Lives of John Lennon and Elvis explores the tumultuous life of one of the most controversial comics who ever lived. Bruce then went on to join the bill at the club Strip City. Solomon later saw his conviction overturned; Bruce, who died before the decision, never had his conviction stricken. At forty. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The truth is what is. Lenny Bruce: The Comedian as Social Critic & Secular Moralist (Monad Press, 1974) Kringas, Damian. Part of HuffPost News. The amazing thing about churches and synagogues is that they never complain about a bad location. Harlow found employment at the Colony Club, which was widely known to be the bestburlesqueclub in Los Angeles at the time. By 1966 he had beenblacklistedby nearly every nightclub in the United States, as owners feared prosecution for obscenity. Because, we fucked all their mothers for chocolate bars and dont you forget that, Jim, barked Lenny on the Sex is Dirty concert record. Its not only disgusting, what youre doing. Pittston resident Kitty Bruce hopes to help women in recovery with 'Lenny's House' More than 40 years after his death from a drug overdose, the name Lenny Bruce still causes a stir mainly . His conviction for an obscenity trial was posthumously pardoned by the Governor. Father of Kitty Bruce, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umI4XCOGrmo. A film-crew captured one of those performances at Basin Street West in San Francisco. In addition to accommodating paying clients Kitty created scholarships for those unable to afford treatment or a recovery house. Thanks to his friend Buddy Hackett, Lenny found work punching up scripts at 20th Century Fox. Sally cleaned houses, taught dancing, and waitressed while Mickey worked long hours selling shoes and attended pharmacy school at night. Bruce, a standup comedian and social satirist, was famously arrested and jailed for obscenity, taking his case and issues of free speech all the way to the Supreme Court. Many of Bruce's later routines reflected his meticulous schooling at the hands of Ancis. Bruce was arrested again in 1961, inPhiladelphia, fordrug possessionand again in Los Angeles, California, two years later. Thatsobscene., His epitaph reads: Beloved father devoted son/Peace at last.. He typically bore the brunt of his Aunt Memas heavily Yiddish accented histrionics, squawking like a Jewish myna bird, if she caught him playing with her portable bidet (a large red rubber bulb with a long black nozzle), or if he asked her, Why does the talcum powder stick between your nay-nays?, If Bruce loved anything it was chaos and disorder, said Lennys friend, the author Barry Sanders at a 2010 Humanities Festival in Chicago. In October 2016, a two-day conference was held in his honor in the Goldfarb Library at Brandeis University. -1925 , , () , -1906 , , -1906 ' ', . It was recorded and became his last live album, titled "The Berkeley Concert"; his performance here has been described as lucid, clear and calm, and one of his best. This caused the divorce between Honey and Bruce in 1959. Soon afterward, in 1947, just after changing his last name to Bruce, he earned $12 and a free spaghetti dinner for his first stand-up performance inBrooklyn, New York. Son of Myron (Meir Levy) Schneider and Sally Marr But listening to Out Again . If you need to flag this entry as abusive, Kitty Bruce with father, the late Lenny Bruce (left) and today, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography, Comedy and the Constitution: the Legacy of Lenny Bruce,. Season 4 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Prime ties up some loose ends, principally the relationship between Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) and Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby). All they had to do was just show up and suit up.. The opening line of the song mentioning Bruce goes, "That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane, Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Director Bob Fosse Writer Julian Barry (play) Stars Dustin Hoffman Valerie Perrine Jan Miner See production, box office & company info Watch on Pluto TV Go to pluto.tv I find this interesting cause in the end these are just words You give them power when you cower man its so absurd. An older kid conducted a school and five of us graduated about the same time. Lenny Bruce's life is reconstructed in dazzling sequences that capture his genius in the . He grew up near Bellmore and attended the Wellington C. Mepham High School. I wanted desperately to see my teachers, out of control, screaming and running wildly.". Lenny Bruce: 13 Days In Sydney (Independence Jones Guerilla Press, Sydney, 2010) A study of Bruce's ill-fated September 1962 tour down under. Over 500 people attended his funeral. Let me tell you the truth, Lenny Bruce said, setting up one of his headier-bits. On Monday, Lenny went to court and pleaded not guilty. [36], In April 1964, he appeared twice at theCafe Au Go GoinGreenwich Villagewith undercover police detectives in the audience. After he married stripper Harriet Lloyd in 1951, he began working in Los Angeles strip joints. The scam netted $8,000 but he was arrested when the Miami Police Department caught wind of it. Lennys final performances focused almost entirely on his lawsuits and, even on stage, were his law books, law journals, and legal briefs in case he wanted to reference some criminal law or penal code. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up". He won first prize on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in 1949 but was years away from finding his true voice. Whenever he came to New York he would call. Stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce , at his obscenity trial in New York Criminal Court before a panel of three judges, during which tapes were played from. Lenny is a man in his early to mid 30s, with dark brown hair and light brown eyes. [27], On December 5, 1962, he was arrested at the legendary Gate of Horn folk club in Chicago. All of that is true, of course, but few have given us a sense of Lenny the son, father, friend, or that he was even funny. He was banned outright from several U.S. cities, and in 1962 was banned from performing in Sydney, Australia. Born Leonard Alfred Schneider in Mineola, Long Island, New York, he grew up in nearby Bellmore, NY, attending Mepham High School. Lenny Bruce brought more First Amendment protection to comedy Born in Mineola, New York, in 1925 as Leonard Alfred Schneider, Lenny Bruce had a troubled early life. Lenny Bruce. On October 4, 1961, Bruce was arrested for obscenity[32]at theJazz WorkshopinSan Francisco; he had used the wordcocksuckerand riffed that tois apreposition,comeis averb, that the sexual context ofcomeis so common that it bears no weight, and that if someone hearing it becomes upset, he probably cant come. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out, Oct 13 1925 - Mineola, Queens, New York, United States, Aug 3 1966 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, Mickey Schneider, Sadie (Sally) Schneider (born Kitchenberg (Marr)), Myron Mickey Schneider, Sally Schneider (born Marr), Mineola, Nassau County, New York, United States, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, Eden Memorial Park, Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA, On The Beatles Sgt. His British-born father, Myron (Mickey) Schneider, was a shoe clerk and Lenny saw him very infrequently. Most of the proceeds from the new edition of How to Talk Dirty and Influence People will go to the foundation. He paved the way for future outspoken counterculture-era comedians, and his trial for obscenity, in which after being forced into bankruptcy he was eventually pardoned, is seen as a landmark trial for freedom of speech in the US. In May 1945, after a comedic performance for his ship-mates in which he was dressed in drag, his commanding officers became upset. He didnt dress up as woman, lets get that straight, Kitty said. Goldman, Albert, with Lawrence Schiller. Leonard Alfred Schneider, popularly known as Lenny Bruce, was a notable American stand-up comedian, satirist, and social critic. Bruce was known for his insistent drug use, and this was reportedly the cause of his death. One can only wonder, had he lived to old age, what the self-described semanticist would have thought of the assignation Greatest Generation? Despite his prominence as a comedian, Bruce appeared on network television only six times in his life. In 1951, Lenny married Honey Harlow, who was a showgirl and a stripper. It is my hope that there will be other Lennys houses that can be self-sustaining and go on with the successful module. Of course, we know that this is the only comedian ever jailed for his words (in America, at least). -1998 . 3 on its list of the 100 Greatest StandUps of All Time in 2004. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. [17]In 1959, while taping the first episode of Hugh HefnersPlayboys Penthouse, Bruce talked about his Navy experience and showed a tattoo he received in Malta in 1942. Lenny Bruce was born as Leonard Alfred Schneider on October 13, 1925 to Sally Marr and Myron Schneider in Mineola, New York. ", Bruce is survived by his daughter, Kitty Bruce (born Brandy Kathleen Bruce), who lives in Pennsylvania. The story follows a lead character, Josh, through various events in his life, including a death in the family and his exploration of sexuality. From the "Berkeley Concert" CD.I have no rights or copyright claim to this - please. Advertisement. As a Jew fighting in the war against Hitler he certainly knew what was at stake but, at the same time, he wasnt asking for sainthood. A campaign to overturn the 1964 obscenity conviction, led by Ron Collins and David Skover (authors of The Trials of Lenny Bruce), Kitty and her late mother (Honey died in 2006) inspired then New York Governor George E. Pataki to pardon Lenny in 2003. This has been an exciting year for Kitty. Rise To Fame. Kitty was six when Lenny got arrested the first time for obscenity in San Francisco for uttering cocksucker during his performance. I knew, of course, that becoming a rabbi or a priest would be a slow process. But, at first, he delighted in making the band laugh. He later started working on a farm and finally joined the United States Navy when he was 16. His performances with such topics were considered obscene, immoral and harmful. His British-born father, Myron, was a shoe clerk, his mother, Sadie, was a dancer. The Los Angeles arrest took place in then-unincorporatedWest Hollywood, and the arresting officer was a young deputy namedSherman Block, who would later become County Sheriff. One day, he hung out for a while, asked a lot questions about what we did and then split. When he died it was a real loss to the culture and to me as a friend, Krassner said. His most famous show took place on February 4, 1961 at Carnegie Hall. Kitty Bruce After defending his thesis, he traveled to Pennsylvania. After serving for three years, Lenny . In the play, the main character, Ron, seeks to perform a routine in the style of Mr . : . I had a copy of National Geographic, with pictures and naked chicks in Africa. A point at which, like the practitioners of automatic writing, his tongue would outrun his mind and he would be saying things he didn't plan to say, things that surprised, delighted him, cracked him up as if he were a spectator at his own performance! They had a daughter, Kitty Bruce, in 1955. I wanted the women to come and learn how to live and navigate the clean and sober world because their minds are used to dealing with three thoughts: where can I get more, do I have enough, and when am I going to get it. And when decision making comes into play it causes a great deal of stress. Lenny was born Leonard Schneider in October 1925; raised by his mother following his parents divorce he joined the U.S. Navy during WWII. : : Green globe.svg , -----------------------------------------. Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. He fancied himself an oral jazzman. He married Honey in 1951 and they settled in Miami. Bruce's smirk is audible as he zeroes in on this or that taboo. Id scramble up the ladder, wrote Lenny, just in time to get my helmet knocked off and my nose bloodied from the concussion vacuum created in the hatch cove., He told Paul Krassner that his life was influenced, among many things, by the smell of spent shell powder at Anzio and Salerno. That abstract reference, however, did little justice to what Lenny experienced during the war, especially in the four month Anzio campaign that killed 29,200 allied servicemen. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band[40] The clip of a news broadcast featured in "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" by Simon & Garfunkel carries the ostensible newscast audio of Lenny Bruce's death. In a span of two years, he was arrested over 15 times. Bill Graham, the legendary concert promoter who booked Lennys final performances at his Fillmore Auditorium, six weeks before his death, told biographer Robert Greenfield, He had these incredible circles under his eyes. Lenny Bruce spoke with a ferocious but graceful and jazz-like rhythm. A couple of nights later a group of us went to his midnight show at Basin Street West. , "". March 11, 2022 Comedian Lenny Bruce took the Carnegie Hall stage during a blinding February snowstorm in 1961, delivering the most groundbreaking performance of his career. In it she describes her sorrow and anger at Bruce's death. (Self-Published pamphlet, 1962) Bruce, Lenny. In the novel, Bruce does a stand-up routine about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The New York Times Archives. [48]Record producerPhil Spector, a friend of Bruces, bought the negatives of the photographs to keep them from the press. Owners of reputed clubs were afraid to hire him, and he had to go without a single gig for about six months. Burlesque was Lennys proving ground; MCing in nightclubs, up and down both coasts, he cultivated the incantatory patter that put him at a level above his peers. He made some inroads into motion pictures and wrote and acted in some very low-budget films. She created the necessary marketing materials, hired treatment specialists, and then opened Lennys House.. Bruce, who died of a drug overdose in 1966, was a genuinely funny man who has a genuine claim to be considered a hero of free speech in America. The performance contained in this album is that of a child of the jazz age. Writer and Comedian. On one chilling occasion, while referencing his struggle with addiction, he said, "I'll die young, but it's like kissing God". His parents divorced when he was young, and he lived with different relatives afterwards. ~ Lenny Bruce. Cemetery officials had tried to block the ceremony after advertisements for the event encouraged attendees to bring box lunches and noisemakers. After a short stint in California spent living with his father, Bruce settled in New York City, hoping to establish himself as a comedian. In the last line of the song, Dylan recalls: "Lenny Bruce was bad, he was the brother that you never had. [19], In late 1954, Bruce left Strip City and found work within the San Fernando Valley at a variety of strip clubs. He also wrote screenplays early in his career from 1952 to 1954, including Dance Hall Racket, Dream Follies, and a childrens film The Rocket Man. It made people laugh, and made people wonder.. Everything about him was puffy. He's to show business what Einstein was to science.". In 1953, Lenny Bruce wrote the screenplay for Dance Hall Racket, featuring himself, his wife Honey and mother Sally Bruce.He followed it with Dream Follies, 1954 and the children film The Rocket Man in 1954. This article is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. Lenny Bruce, oik. The documentary Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, directed by Robert B. Weide and narrated by Robert De Niro, was released in 1998. -1948, . He began by taking the name Lenny Marsalle at the Victory Club; he later changed his last name to Bruce in 1947 for his first stand-up performance in Brooklyn. He wanted to see his mother and started telling the ships shrink that he had urges and kept up the ruse enough to where he got discharged., A U.S. Navy crew-log dated December 15th 1942 lists SCHNEIDER, Leonard A, S2c, reporting for duty aboard the USS Brooklyn CL-40. I would wait for an opportunity when Mr. Dengler was having a good laugh, and then I would catch him unawares and give him a big hug. They lined her up, those bastards. They were already fast friends when Playboy Magazine hired Krassner to edit How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. He was renowned for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. I decorated all the rooms and wanted each room to be different kept everything low stressed. However, he had not admitted to or been found guilty of any breach of naval regulations and successfully applied to have his discharge changed toUnder Honorable Conditions by reason of unsuitability for the naval service. , . As the master of ceremonies, his job was to introduce the strippers while performing his own ever-evolving material. "[41][42] Tim Hardin's fourth album, released in 1968 Tim Hardin 3 Live in Concert, includes his song Lenny's Tune written about his friend Lenny Bruce. His appearances on television increased and he was a guest for a television program hosted by Hugh Hefner, the Playboy magazine publisher. 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 performed in front of a full house and his biographer called this the greatest performance of his career. When they get clean and sober they are women of honor and dignity. They were married that same year, and Bruce was determined to have her end her work as a stripper. Lenny Bruce is sort of a comedy oracle on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, but the tease of his downfall is starting to follow the real-life figure's death.The Amazon Original, which is in its 4th season, introduced the real-life comedian as a friend and occasional mentor to Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) as she follows her own comedy dreams. August 3 also is the 50th anniversary of Lenny Bruce's death at the age of 40. Born Saturday, April 8, 1961 he was the son of Jerry Oakes of Stanford and the late Joyce Young Oakes. Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. Bruce's work has inspired several comedians in the United States, including Richard Pryor. Kitty continues to work closely with sober houses and treatment programs, and works with approved facilities. Lenny Bruce is not afraid. He was a people watching person who loved characters and people that were different. His growing fame led to appearances on the nationally televisedSteve Allen Show,where he made his debut with an unscripted comment on the recent marriage ofElizabeth TaylortoEddie Fisher, wondering, will Elizabeth Taylor becomebat mitzvah?[24]On February 3, 1961, in the midst of a severe blizzard, he gave a famous performance atCarnegie Hallin New York. Since he had a half hour to kill we walked and talked around the North Beach neighborhood. To support herself and her son, Sadie Schneider pursued a career in show business and sent Lenny to live with various aunts, uncles and grandparents. Lenny was just this cool, curious guy that seemed to fit right in with us. First, they performed together as a duo but made far less than Honey earned as a stripper. Weide and those he interviews for this documentary are . [42]The performance was not remembered fondly byBill Graham, whose memoir describes Bruce as whacked out onamphetamine;[43]Graham thought that Bruce finished his set emotionally disturbed. Due to his controversial material and being labeled as a sick comic, he was blacklisted from television and lost many of his gigs. At the request ofHugh Hefnerand with the aid ofPaul Krassner, Bruce wrote an autobiography. In August 1966, at the age of 40, Lenny Bruce was found dead in his Hollywood home of a suspected morphine overdose. I cant tell you what it meant to me to see these mothers sober mothering there. Lenny Bruce Christian, Two, Shirts 83 Copy quote Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Lenny was discharged from service under honorable conditions, and enjoyed the full-benefits of the GI Bill. He died of a drug . The (almost) Unpublished Lenny Bruce (1984, Running Press) (includes a graphically spruced up reproduction of 'Stamp Help Out!') Editing help is available. His jokes were considered offensive and had to generally be preapproved by the network. He was popular for voicing out his beliefs through comedy as he was open about sex and vulgarity, and critical of politics and religion. And to my left, the British cruiser Spartan went down. In May 1945, after a comedic performance for his ship-mates in which he was dressed indrag, his commanding officers became upset. Churches and synagogues were probably hard to come by. Satirist, Stand-up Comedian, Social Critic, Comedien. He attended Wellington C.. I was so involved; I didnt hear the door open. I would highly recommend it even if I wasnt related to him.". Lenny later joked, I was 52, weighed 120 pounds and had a heavy beard that needed removing about once every six months.. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. [30]. At his first show there, Bruce took the stage, and declared "What a fucking wonderful audience" and was promptly arrested. Fifty-two years ago, Lenny Bruce was found naked on the toilet of his Los Angeles home, dead from a morphine overdose. Dick Schaapeulogized Bruce inPlayboy, with the memorable last line: One last four-letter word for Lenny: Dead. On both occasions, he was arrested after leaving the stage, the complaints again pertaining to his use of various obscenities.[37]. Serialized inPlayboyin 1964 and 1965, this material was later published as the bookHow to Talk Dirty and Influence People. [26] Although the jury acquitted him, other law enforcement agencies began monitoring his appearances, resulting in frequent arrests under charges of obscenity. He was arrested along with the club owners, Howard and Elly Solomon, who were arrested for allowing an obscene performance to take place. -FBI ( ). [12] His parents divorced when he was five years old (the documentary Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth claims he was eight years old), and Lenny lived with various relatives over the next decade. He was found dead on August 3, 1966. Career[edit] Bruce's early comedy career included writing the screenplays for Dance Hall Racket in 1953, which featured Bruce, his wife, Honey Harlow, and mother, Sally Marr, in roles; Dream Follies in 1954, a low-budget burlesque romp; and a children's film, The Rocket Man, in 1954. His ad-libs earned him some laughs. He was found dead in the bathroom of his Hollywood Hills home on August 3, 1966. Through December 30, at the Cutting Room in Midtown Manhattan, that final. It was recorded and became his last live album, titled The Berkeley Concert; his performance here has been described as lucid, clear and calm, and one of his best. Like. His mother, Sally Marr (real name Sadie Schneider, born Sadie Kitchenberg), was a stage performer and had an enormous influence on Bruce's career. However, he found it difficult to differentiate himself from the thousands of other show business hopefuls who populated the city. However, caught in a swirl of drugs, legal battles, and rebellion, Bruce could not sustain the momentum he created. Our destroyer was torpedoed. I was a 20-year-old cartoonist new to London, dividing my time between freelancing for various newspapers and the more important business of afternoon drinking. Busted! His parents split up when he was five. , , , . Stand-up Comedians, place of death: Los Angeles, California, United States, Quotes By Lenny Bruce | His once swarthy, lean figure and breathtaking wordplay was all but decimated - along with his spirit by legal problems. [15], After spending time working on a farm, Bruce joined theUnited States Navyat the age of 16 in 1942, and saw active duty duringWorld War IIaboard theUSSBrooklyn(CL-40)fighting in Northern Africa,Palermo,Italyin 1943 andAnzio, Italy in 1944. Best Lenny Bruce Quotes. Cohen, John, ed., compiler. He was charged with obscenity during this period. They divorced in 1957 and Bruce won legal custody of his daughter, but spent little time with her. Knowing the cameras were there, he began pleading his case for posterity and weaving it in to his act - sometimes succeeding in making it funny or at least entertaining, while cops were in the back of the club, listening. We all watched and tried to laugh and not even the great Lenny Bruce could make it funny., Lennys girlfriend at the time, the late comedienne Lotus Weinstock told her friend, the filmmaker Robert Weide, In the last months he had two very clear messages that he was giving himself. Branded a sick comic though it was the perceived sickness of modern society that he was railing about Lenny was essentially blacklisted from television, and, when he did appear thanks to sympathetic fans likeSteve AllenorHugh Hefner, it was with great concessions toBroadcast Standards and Practices. Lenny and Honeys only child Kitty was born in 1955 but their but the marriage fell apart and they were divorced in 1959. The performance was not remembered fondly by Bill Graham, who described Bruce as "whacked out on amphetamines"; Graham thought that Bruce finished his set emotionally disturbed. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy which contained satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. Mrs. Dengler called me a kissing bug, but she never rejected me. No more channeling Lenny.. She put her home up for collateral and bought a sixteen room house in Pittston, Pennsylvania for women dealing with addiction to go after their stint in rehab. Personal life[edit] Bruce met his future wife, Honey Harlow, a stripper from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951. Lenny had spent more time in police cars, jails, and courtrooms that, by 1965, his obsession with the legal system was absolute. 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