Richard "Lord" Buckley was born i Stockton,
California in 1907, and died in New York City
in 1960.....In beteween, the legendary comic's comic
spent his time having a ball, living out a life style
of hip swing which, even today would raise as many
eyebros as smiles.......Almost earning a living as a
stand-up comic, Buckley drew his unique, rapid
style, freewheeling, jazz-scat way of performing
from the people he lived and worked with..........
gangsters, black jazz musicans, and street wise angels
of the 'other America'.
He sewed the seeds of American stand-up comedy,
carried on after his death by such people as Lenny
Bruce and Richard Prior...............His larger than life
personality and total committment to a hipster life
style of 'fun, fun fun', no matter the cost, make
his mysterious death a sad reminder that Western
Society doesn't put its dissidents in mental homes,
or labor camps..............it relentlessly crushed them
through an overwhelming beaurocracy.
C.P. Lee, 1982
