How to talk dirty and influence people

His Autobiography

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Publikuota 1981, Granada.

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How to Talk Dirty and Influence People is an autobiography by Lenny Bruce, an American satirist and comedian, who died in 1966 at age 40 of a drug overdose.

At the request of Hugh Hefner and with the aid of Paul Krassner, Bruce wrote the work in serialized format for Playboy in 1964 and 1965. Shortly thereafter it was released as a book by Playboy Publishing.[1] The book details the course of his career, which began in the late 1940s. In it, he challenges the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions he perceives as having hypocritical tendencies. He also chronicles his legal troubles for pushing against the boundaries of free speech. The book's title is a parody of the 1936 bestseller, How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie.

(From Wikipedia July 2025)

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apžvelgė autoriaus Lenny Bruce knygą How to talk dirty and influence people

A life story that finished too soon

I am a big fan of the few remaining film snippets of Lenny Bruce doing stand-up or television appearances. His comedy was sharp, biting, and remains incredibly relevant despite his having died too young in the 1960s. This book is his story, originally published in Playboy Magazine for his friend Hugh Heffner, at a time when that magazine was considered counter-cultural and revolutionary.

Bruce's experiences in World War II, his childhood in poor Jewish New York, his con artistry, and his later life being hounded by police for 'obscenity' were all hard tales to read because he wrote them while he was still trying to drag himself out of the depths of this; knowing that he never made it makes it all sadder. He writes with a light humour with dark undertones, with moments that are dated and other that made me laugh until I cried.

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