Swami X, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Swami X

American comedian

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Date of Death: 29-Aug-2015

Profession: street artist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Swami X

  • Swami X was an American boardwalk performer and stand-up comedian.
  • Active from the 1970s to 1985, he performed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berkeley, and New York.
  • He was known for bawdy sexual humor and political invective.Swami X's act was a monologue mixing pithy sociopolitical observations with poetry, sarcasm and humor, which typically included blasphemy, profanity, and attacking "sacred cows"—producing "pleased shock and delighted outrage" in observers.
  • His notable lines include: "Sex is not the answer.
  • Sex is the question.
  • 'Yes' is the answer." "How do we know Jesus Christ was Jewish? Because he went into His Father's business." "If I had known I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself". "You are what you eat.
  • If that's true, then I'm a nymphomaniac".He was known for appearing on the Venice Boardwalk, at the UCLA and U.C.
  • Berkeley campuses, in San Francisco, and at Washington Park in New York City.
  • He retired in 1985.
  • In 2009 the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, presented him with an official proclamation.Swami X appears as a character in Roger L.
  • Simon's mystery novel, The Straight Man and is referenced in Pat Hartman's volume of Venice vignettes, Call Someplace Paradise.Harry W.
  • "Swami X" Hart died on August 29, 2015 at the home of former Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl.
  • He was 89, two and a half months before his 90th birthday.
  • Hart was born in Philadelphia in mid-November 1925.

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