Cast: Lenny Bruce

Direction Sean Hayes

Cast Robert B. Weide · Bea Arthur · Elayne Boosler · Louis C.K.

Synopsis Utilizing archival footage punctuated by contemporary interviews with comedy legends and scholars, this is the history of not only what makes us laugh, but how comedy has affected the social and political landscape throughout history.

Direction Robert B. Weide

Cast Lenny Bruce · Robert De Niro · Steve Allen · Honey Bruce Friedman

Synopsis In 1948, Lenny Bruce was just another comic who couldn't get arrested. By 1961, all that would change. The documentary sheds new light on Bruce’s early career as an apolitical mimic; once he becomes a furious satirist, it shows the...

Direction Theodore Bogosian

Cast Joe Alterman · Warren Beatty · Sarah Berman · Shelley Berman

Synopsis Some of the biggest names in entertainment share how they got their start after performing at a legendary Chicago nightclub.

Direction John Magnuson

Cast Lenny Bruce

Synopsis Iconoclast Lenny Bruce appears at San Francisco's Basin Street West in what was his next-to-last live appearance. His act that night consisted of reading allegations and transcripts from one of his several obscenity trials and then commenting on what he'd...

Direction Daniel O'Connor · Neil Ortenberg

Cast Amiri Baraka · John Sayles · Lenny Bruce · William S. Burroughs

Synopsis A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Naked Lunch" to publication.