The Lenny Bruce playbook crossed over into downtown stage farce

Evidence

The Baptism—a farce about homosexuality and the church—was, he thought, something new for Jones: “I cannot convey the extent of outrage it commits, the unrestrained blasphemous travesty it perpetuates on a flock of sacred subjects.” (These included Jesus Christ, masturbation, and Black-white relations, which is to say, the Lenny Bruce playbook.) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 612

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the lenny bruce / transgression lineage and to reader’s interest in ignorable art forms allowing boundary-pushing.