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The cross-dressing character “Corporal Klinger” on M*A*S*H was inspired by the '50s/'60s counterculture comedian Lenny Bruce who was dishonorably discharged from the Navy during WWII for wearing a woman's uniform and claiming homosexual tendencies
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On November 22, 1963, just hours after JFK's assassination, comedian Lenny Bruce performed a scheduled nightclub gig. Bruce walked up on stage and stood in silence for a few moments. Then, referring to the famed JFK impersonator, he stated in a sad voice "Boy, is Vaughn Meader fucked."
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In 1962 comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for using the word "schmuck" on stage. "Schmuck" is a Yiddish swear word for "penis", and is considered deeply offensive in Yiddish speaking communities.
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In 1962, Lenny Bruce was arrested in a comedy club on obscenity charges. The police asked a young George Carlin in the audience to show his ID, to which he responded, “I don’t believe in ID.” He was promptly arrested.
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After Lenny Bruce died cops wanted his body and death scene to look more like a junkie for news photographers. They posed him, pulled his pants down, and put a box of syringes by his body.
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Lenny Bruce was arrested for saying the word "Schmuck".
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Corporal Klinger's cross-dressing on MASH was possibly inspired by Lenny Bruce's attempts to be discharged from the Army
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Lenny Bruce was arrested in NYC in 1964 and convicted of violating obscenity laws. At his trial, he presented a petition that protested the looming conviction--the petition was signed by Bob Dylan, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Allen Ginsberg, and Norman Mailer.
