According to Lenny Bruce's primary biographer, Albert Goldman, it was "precisely at the moment when he sank to the bottom of the barrel and started working the places that were the lowest of the low" that he suddenly broke free of "all the restraints and inhibitions and disabilities that formerly had kept him just mediocre and began to blow with a spontaneous freedom and resourcefulness that resembled the style and inspiration of his new friends and admirers, the jazz musicians of the modernist school."




"The Theatre of Cruelty (French: Théâtre de la Cruauté) is a surrealist form of theatre theorised by Antonin Artaud in his book The Theatre and its Double. "Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle," he writes, "the theatre is not possible. In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds." By "cruelty," Artaud referred not to sadism or causing pain, but rather a violent, austere, physical determination to shatter the false reality that, he wrote, "lies like a shroud over our perceptions."

 Cruelty, not in the sense of violent behaviour, but rather the cruelty it takes for actors to show an audience a truth that they do not wish to see."

-Mr. Mike : The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue
by Dennis Perrin






"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here's some Music for your Bunker.

When I was Minister for Humorous WarfareI produced a live streamed album taping for some great musicians called "Canna City Limits".

At the 1st Church of Cannabis, I was the Minister Of Humorous Warfare.

This Playlist is an incomplete record of My Campaign of Comedic Protest Actions over a 2 year period.

It was a Live Streamed Studio Audience Standup Comedy Show Called "The Comedy Grinder".

Since we were under surveillance, I knew they'd see it.

Early Performances In the Wild.

This playlist is appropriately titled :
"The Hell Gigs of Gerry Gobel"

We accidentally caught a drug deal going while taping the Holiday Special. I was getting waterboarded at the time.

Good Times.