Comedy and the Constitution: The Legacy of Lenny Bruce
Day Two: October 28, 2016
Session 7: The Language of Comedy
Richard Peltz-Steele, professor of law, University of Massachusetts Law School.
Paper title: “The Frakking Futility of Punishing Profanity”
Betsy Sherman, film critic and archivist. Paper title: “Indecent Exposure: At the Gate of Horn After the Bust”
Peter Kunze, PhD candidate in media studies, University of Texas at Austin. Paper title: “Lenny Bruce for Kids”
Josh Lambert, academic director, Yiddish Book Center, and visiting assistant professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Paper title: “Lenny Bruce, Etymologist? What Yiddish Can Teach Us”
Moderated by David R. Sherman, associate professor of English, Brandeis University
