In 1953 Maynard Sloate, the owner of “Strip City,” a Hollywood burlesque club, made comedy history by booking a young Lenny Bruce. Why did he do it? Did he see the spark of genius? No—Bruce was simply different:
Agent Lou Dorn introduced Bruce to him, Sloate remembers. “Dorn booked all kinds of people in strip joints. All the comics were doing pretty muc…
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