Presented here is a digital version of a recording of a performance by Lenny Bruce. It is likely that the venue is Club Renaissance in Los Angeles, and it is probably from 1963 or earlier. The set is in progress. Bruce does The Act Is Hugging & Kissing. He is more in favor of a chick who loves 30 cats in a day than a chick who loves nada but he doesn't want to be the 31st. He talks about how a woman will make it with a celebrity and pretend she doesn't know who he is. He says juries are filled with daytime television-watchers and imagines daytime host Art Linkletter on trial. He says nothing was wrong with Lionel Barrymore's legs, he had a Roosevelt fetish, and that Eleanor Roosevelt gave the clap to FDR, Lou Gehrig and Chiang Kai-shek. He does his bit The Clap. He talks about tourist vs. first class on planes. He riffs on the TV series The Millionaire. He speaks fondly of an Atwater-Kent radio he had, and sings the theme song from the Uncle Don show from Detroit. He does his bit on blind pianist George Shearing. He talks of his fantasy of being with a deaf and dumb chick. He mentions the comic Bill Dana and the San Francisco club the hungry i. He calls Gene Norman, owner of The Crescendo in Los Angeles, insane. He does the bit Chicks Are Boss. The recording ends abruptly. The audio quality of this file is poor. The material on this file is also on files 46a and 46b, which have much better audio quality. File LB_46b has the rest of the set.
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.
