I wonder if any performers were ever booed by the studio audience at “The Ed Sullivan Show”?
Yes, I can just imagine what a disaster it would have been to see Lang & Clark appear on the Sullivan show. Dr. Lang, clearly no graduate of former NBA star Jerry Lucas’ memory retention program, would likely refer to Ed Sullivan as “Mr. Salmon” or “Mr. Solomon” or some such misnomer.
Then, as part of their act, Dr. Lang would attempt to use a tape recorder with Jeff Clark in a new version of Abbott & Costello’s classic “Who’s on First” routine, but they would continue their comedic schtick even after Dr. Lang inadvertently shut the tape recorder off. Jeff Clark’s sole “contribution” to the act, would be to grab his own hair and attempt unsuccessfully to embrace and grope little Topot Gigio, standing just off-stage.
To say that Mr. Sullivan was upset with Lang & Clark’s rotten performance would be an understatement. Mr.
Sullivan hadn’t been so disgusted and upset, since comedian Jackie Mason allegedly flashed the venerable Mr.
Sullivan, the “half-a-peace-sign” during the Borscht Belt comedian’s notorious appearance on that Sunday night
American tv institution.
After thar Titanic-like bomb of an appearance with Ed Sullivan, Lang & Clark would be relegated to “headline”
with appearances at such “in-demand” comedy clubs as Pauly Shore’s House of Comedy in Newark, NJ and also
at the Kit Kat Lounge in Portland, Maine.
Yes, Lang & Clark will be ranked in American comedy history with such comedic “giants” as London Lee, Moms
Mabley and comedian/ventriloquist Barney Dunn from “Broadway Danny Rose.”