Word: langston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blacks found a haven in Harlem about the turn of the century and soon made it their own, displacing the other ethnic groups that had been there before them. By the early '20s, it was a lively center for writers, singers, dancers and composers: Langston Hughes, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Eubie Blake and Paul Robeson. Bessie Smith occasionally dropped in, and there was enough talent, much of it unknown to the folks downtown, to fill the stages of a dozen theaters. The expansive, tree-lined streets were safe, and on a Sunday, Seventh Avenue was a promenade for strollers...
...enjoyed your article about Murray Langston, alias the Unknown Comic...
Alas, Mr. Langston tells us the original Unknown Comic poster is no longer available, but he promises a new one soon. We'll stay alert...
...Langston was what is called a "Curtain Closer," a person who did something utterly ridiculous or insulted host Chuck Barris right before the curtains were closed on him. When Barris asked him to be a semi-regular on the show that features irregulars, no one was more surprised than Langston. "I never expected to be on more than once...
...Langston reacts to those situations the way you would expect: he laughs them off. Comedy is his bag and the bag is his comedy and as his alter ego might put it, sack-cess is just around the corner. "Let's face it," he says, "right now people are coming to see the Unknown Comic and not Murray Langston, but that should change soon." Then, having given his prediction, Murray Langston walks up a flight of stairs, across the long hotel lobby and seems to disappear in the crowd...