Let the Buyer Beware

Disc 1
1	Are There Any Niggers Here Tonight? previously unreleased 1:20
2	The Clap previously unreleased 1:37
3	Lenny on Comedy, Pt. 1 previously unreleased 2:59
4	On Third Shows previously unreleased 1:04
5	Father Flotsky's Triumph previously unreleased 7:36
6	Lima, Ohio previously unreleased 10:39
7	Introduction to "The Palladium"/Annie Ross/What Was I Talking About? [# 2:32
8	The Palladium previously unreleased 20:13
9	Explanation of Frank Dell and Bullets previously unreleased 1:29
10	Censorship on the Steve Allen Show previously unreleased 6:18
11	Taking Requests/Hip Diseases previously unreleased 1:49
12	The Lawrence Welk Story previously unreleased 4:52
13	How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties / Eric Miller previously unreleased 6:25
14	Gotta Split 1:09
15	Lenny on Playboy's Penthouse / Hugh Hefner previously unreleased 5:16
Disc 2
1	Testing the Sony Microphone previously unreleased 1:11
2	Lenny on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts / Sally Marr previously unreleased 8:12
3	Critics/Club Owners previously unreleased 5:58
4	Monster Routine With Hecklers previously unreleased 14:24
5	I've Never Been in Love Before previously unreleased 1:02
6	Religions, Inc. previously unreleased 9:49
7	Lenny Interview / Studs Terkel previously unreleased 4:45
8	Airplane Glue 1:44
9	The Phone Company 2:20
10	My Trip to Miami 3:39
11	Psycho Doctors/Faye Bainter/Jack Paar previously unreleased 6:54
12	Ike, Sherm & Nick 6:03
13	Non Skeddo Flies Again previously unreleased 10:41
Disc 3
1	Working Carnegie Hall 0:58
2	Point of View 4:54
3	Christ and Moses 8:50
4	Spanish Harlem 1:06
5	The Joke 1:35
6	Pretty Bizarre Show 1:41
7	Dirty Toilet/Bad Early Toilet Training 2:45
8	If Your Body Is Dirty, The Fault Lies With the Manufacturer 0:44
9	What Should Be/What Is 1:35
10	C.E. Hocksey Letters/My Father Solomon Osterow 7:47
11	To Is a Preposition; Come Is a Verb 2:35
12	Blah Blah Blah 2:50
13	Dick Tracy Is an Orthodox Jew previously unreleased 1:21
14	Milton Berle/Dykes/Homosexuality previously unreleased 3:17
15	Cops/Where the Heat Are previously unreleased 1:01
16	Going to Court/Wear a Blue Suit previously unreleased 1:41
17	S.F. Gossip/Jewish & Goyish/Cat Downstairs Taping Show previously unreleased 2:52
18	The Phantom previously unreleased 0:55
19	Would You Want Your Sister to Marry One of Them? previously unreleased 1:51
20	Chick Singer With a Gimmick previously unreleased 8:33
21	Billy Graham Is Not Qualified previously unreleased 1:36
22	Touch It Once previously unreleased 1:49
23	The Black Cat/Get Stuffed/Why Did You Lie to Me? previously unreleased 6:18
24	Closing/Will Rogers Quote previously unreleased 0:31
25	Lawrence Welk the Hipster previously unreleased 3:08
26	Hubert's Museum 4:34
Disc 4
1	I Just Do It and That's All 0:58
2	Ruby the Robot previously unreleased 0:22
3	Mort Sahl, Shelley Berman, Jack Paar, Joey Bishop & Phyllis Diller/The 1:36
4	Why the Breakfast Show previously unreleased 1:21
5	The Meaning of Obscenity, Pt. 1/Drew Pearson's a Son of a Bitch previously unreleased 2:36
6	Norman Rockwell/The Jazz Scene previously unreleased 2:21
7	The Word or the Act/We Fucked Their Mothers for Chocolate Bars previously unreleased 1:26
8	Jimmy Hoffa/Castro & Cuba previously unreleased 1:11
9	Thank You Masked Man previously unreleased 6:57
10	Dangerous Drugs/Marijuana previously unreleased 4:04
11	Jews Killed Christ previously unreleased 1:43
12	Marilyn Monroe/Narcotics vs. Juice previously unreleased 1:28
13	You Don't Remember Me, Do You?/You're So Classic...Smoking a Cigar previously unreleased 2:26
14	Kennedys/Jonathan Winters previously unreleased 1:23
15	W.C. Fields the Anti-Semite/Hookers on Record previously unreleased 1:59
16	The Meaning of Obscenity, Pt. 2 previously unreleased 1:15
17	San Francisco Bust/Judge Entrapment previously unreleased 4:45
18	The Act Is Kissin' & Huggin' previously unreleased 0:38
19	Las Vegas, Pt. 1/Johnny Mathis previously unreleased 0:27
20	I'll Show You How Prejudiced You Are previously unreleased 1:26
21	Corrupt Cities/Chicago Shtarkers/Shelley Berman previously unreleased 2:16
22	Audience Banter/Why Doesn't He Do the Bits on the Records? previously unreleased 1:18
23	Lenny on Comedy, Pt. 2 previously unreleased 8:08
24	Snot 3:42
25	The Nerve of Faggots 1:01
26	Hooker That Balled the President 1:08
27	Divorce/Get Even/Stag Movies vs. King of Kings 1:51
28	Norman Thomas/Filipinos/Midgets 3:06
29	Las Vegas, Pt. 2/Pearl Bailey 6:58
30	Australia 0:54
31	Bela Lugosi & Wallace Beery/Entrancing Transylvania/Herb Caen 2:51
32	The Warning previously unreleased 4:19
Disc 5
1	The Best Man in the Tribe previously unreleased 1:12
2	The Tribunal 2:55
3	Schmuck previously unreleased 2:45
4	Reading the Court Transcript previously unreleased 2:54
5	Pissing in the Sink 4:24
6	Jewish & Goyish 1:21
7	Philly Bust/Judge Axelrod 13:47
8	Tits and Ass 3:07
9	Never Cop Out previously unreleased 4:13
10	Jackie Kennedy Hauls Ass/Selling Out Your Country (aka.Hot Lead Enema) 2:33
11	Dick Gregory previously unreleased 1:17
12	Census Takers previously unreleased 3:11
13	Barry Goldwater/The Truth About Men/Doing It to a Chicken previously unreleased 6:44
14	L.B.J. 1:40
15	Toilets/Flashers/Mark Eden Bust Developer 6:22
16	How the Law Got Started (Eat, Sleep & Crap) previously unreleased 6:41
17	Playing Milwaukee previously unreleased 8:50
18	Marijuana/Flashers/Confusion/Bust in the Audience previously unreleased 1:01
19	Lenny Gets Busted Onstage & Audience Gets Id'd previously unreleased 1:02
Disc 6
1	All Alone previously unreleased 4:27
2	The Heroin Bust previously unreleased 12:38
3	Juror Phone Calls Re: The Heroin Bust previously unreleased 4:48
4	Zeidler & Zeidler Commercials previously unreleased 8:10
5	Eleanor Roosevelt Had Nice Tits previously unreleased 1:22
6	Religions, Inc. 9:47
7	Phone Call Reading a Letter previously unreleased 8:54
8	Christ and Moses previously unreleased 9:09
9	Phone Call to Harry Kalvin previously unreleased 8:24
10	Describing the Fillmore West/Yorty & L.A. previously unreleased 1:05
11	Southern Accents previously unreleased 1:48
12	Art and a Big Piece of Shit previously unreleased 2:01
13	I Picked on the Wrong God previously unreleased 2:05
14	My Name Is Adolf Eichmann previously unreleased 2:23

Barnes & Noble

"I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce" -- so claimed the influential, troubled cult figure. But Bruce was lying: He was indeed a comedian, and his signature stand-up routines, such as "Religions, Inc.," "Jewish & Goyish," and "Father Flotsky's Triumph," attest to his ability to generate laughs. But, as the massive Let the Buyer Beware amply displays, he was also an astute observer of culture, a champion of the First Amendment, a stream-of-consciousness monologist and hipster, and a troubled victim of censorship. It's a six-disc set with well over seven hours of mostly previously unreleased recordings, housed in a beautiful 80-page hardcover book full of newspaper clippings, photos, essays, a biographical and cultural chronology, and a glossary for some of the people and Yiddish terms that come up in the set. Ranging from his first recording (a 1948 appearance on the Arthur Godfrey show) to his last ("Testing the Sony Microphone," recorded the night before his death of an overdose in August 1966), the set includes the early "bits" that brought Bruce notoriety as a "sick comic" who skewered hypocrisies associated with religion, sex, and race while provoking uncomfortable but genuine laughter. His use of profanity led to numerous arrests on charges of obscenity, and his stories of the arrests and court cases contain moments of humor; but, more significantly, they're captivating audio portraits of a historic cultural figure. Sure, Lenny Bruce was a groundbreaking stand-up comic with a wide range of voices and an unerring sense of timing. But Let the Buyer Beware also provides deeply human insights into the man behind the comedy, in all his "sick" and brilliant guises. Steve Klinge

All Music Guide

Let the Buyer Beware is an extraordinary six-disc CD box set packed with unreleased performances, interviews, phone conversations, and various other private recordings of Lenny Bruce. The project was lovingly compiled by Lenny's daughter Kitty and music producer Hal Willner with assistance from the estate of the late Marvin Worth, who produced both the Broadway play Lenny and the film that starred Dustin Hoffman in the leading role. With over seven hours of material, it's painfully obvious that Bruce was so much more than a comedian who worked "blue" and died of a drug overdose in 1966. The program traces his career from his first public performance in 1948 on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts as just another corny comedian to his metamorphosis into the '50s visionary of bad taste with controversial bits pertaining to race, religion, and authority. It was routines like "Religions, Inc.," "Thank You Masked Man," and "How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties" that made the police take notice of Lenny, busting him and the club owners who hired him for obscenity. By disc five the biting satirical monologues have been replaced with scathing condemnations by a dejected man who ended up blackballed, bankrupt, and paranoid. Let the Buyer Beware is more than just a box set highlighting the best routines of an innovative comic; it allows the listener to go behind the scenes into the mindset of a hipster sage who vehemently exclaimed "I'm not a comedian, I'm Lenny Bruce." Les Campbell

Rolling Stone

The definitive audio-biography of Bruce as a revolutionary craftsman and antic wit.... The thrill is in hearing Bruce in action, at the peak of his nightclub powers. David Fricke