Lenny Bruce, declares a truce and plays his other hand. Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', head buried in the sand.
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Broadway Melody of 1974, by Genesis, from "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"Lenny Bruce
I mean, don't tell me about Lenny Bruce, man - Lenny Bruce said dirty words in public and obtained a kind of consensual martyrdom. Plus which Lenny Bruce was hip, too goddam hip if you ask me, which was his undoing, whereas Elvis was not hip at all. Elvis was a goddam truck driver who worshipped his mother and would never say "shit" or "f**k" around her, and Elvis alerted America to the fact that it had a groin with imperatives that had been stifled. Lenny Bruce demonstrated how far you could push a society as repressed as ours and how much you could get away with, but Elvis kicked "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window" out the window and replaced it with "Let's f**k." The rest of us are still reeling from the impact. Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.
Elvis Presley
Marshall McLuhan, what are you doin'?
Marshall McLuhan
I want to be Lenny Bruce.
Lenny Bruce
I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.
Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce was trying to tell you many things before he died...
Lenny Bruce
Bruce, Lenny
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