Comedy gold: Lenny Bruce's Performance
The granddaddy of modern standup comedy is on erratic but brilliant form in his penultimate showTitle: The Lenny Bruce Performance FilmYear: 1967The setup: Lenny Bruce was not the first standup comedian, but he did create what we now mean by "standup comedy". The idea of some guy on a stage, often some guy with problems, who finds himself at odds with the establishment and has only his wits to resist with: that all b…