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- 21 de Mar, 2019
Lenny Bruce was more Andrew Dice Clay than George Carlin. He's also legendary as a "cautionary tale" to stand-up comics, just like Andrew Dice Clay was: that there are lines, especially when it comes to talking about sex, you can't cross and that if you do, only cross them on rare instances and never let yourself be recorded saying them.
Not powerleveling but I've actually spent a lot of time with Andrew Dice Clay as he used to have a band and perform and I was one of the musicians in his band and have spent a good amount of time with him. The thing with Dice was that it's an act and I'm not sure people always got that it was an act. Any time we weren't on stage, he was the complete opposite of his persona. He was always super polite, even to all the band members. Always with "please" and "thank you" when talking to us. I can't say a single bad thing about him. In fact sometimes when we were out and someone recognized him and came up to him on the street and tried to "ape" his routine and start telling him how they picked up this chick and she wouldn't suck dick and so they kicked her out of their car with no shirt on or something, he'd look horrified. They'd be there looking to get approval from him and he'd literally be like, "What's wrong with you? It's an act. You don't treat people like that". He seemed troubled sometimes at the fact that there's people who couldn't separate the person from the persona. In his defense he just thought his Dice persona was just so over the top and ridiculous that no one could ever take it seriously. It's why he felt it was OK to push the envelope because people should get just from the persona that he's not serious. But like many others, he underestimated the stupidity of people.
I didn't know Lenny Bruce personally but from everything I've seen and heard, I got the feeling he was like the way he was on stage all the time. That literally was him. Almost like a John Belushi.
If you would like to know more, I recommend this video. It actually made me feel sorry for musicians!
Lol thank you.