From the Archives 21: Charlie Manna, "Supreme Court" (1966)

Charlie Manna (October 6, 1920 to November 9, 1971) was an Italian-American standup comedian from New York, who was popular in the 1960s. He often appeared on television variety shows, and performed at venues in New York and elsewhere.In 1966, Manna released an LP titled "The Rise & Fall of the Great Society on Verve Records. The record consisted of 9 comedy routines. This is the first, titled "Supreme Court." It satirizes the Supreme Court's obscenity jurisprudence of the 1960s, especially its decision in A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413 (1966), better known as the "Fanny Hill" case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.