Presented here is a digital version of a recording of Lenny Bruce performing at the Gate of Horn club in Chicago on December 12, 1962. It is a recording of the second show of the night, and it begins while the show is in progress. Bruce is commenting on what he's looking at in a newspaper (or possibly a magazine). There is a mention of Ivan Bunny (real name Ivan Colitz, a writer associated with Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet, which suggests that this is the paper Bruce is reading from). There are also mentions of Winston Churchill, Sonny Liston, Tom Dugan (and Dugan's comments on the Brown-Nixon gubernatorial election in California) and comedian Rusty Warren. Bruce refers to tennis player Bill Tilden's sex scandal. He performs his bits Schmuck (the word that he says got him arrested for obscenity at The Troubadour in Los Angeles) and says that it was his bit about condoms that got him arrested for obscenity at the Gate of Horn days earlier. He inserts his bit Are There Any Niggers Here? within his bit Shelley Berman, then does Barney & the Hecklers. He closes the set with a bit referring to Tab Hunter's arrest for allegedly beating his dog.
Full length copies of the recordings are available for use in the department. Please contact the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University for more information.
