(Repost) Lisa, Diane and the Birth of Black Comedy at The Proper Café
(Repost) Lisa, Diane and the Birth of Black Comedy at The Proper Café To keep it totally "100" with my "oldheads" and "young'uns," Lisa Angel Ray and Diane Gibbs, the founders of Non-Stop Entertainment masterminded and gave birth to weekly Black Comedy shows in Queens, New York City. For me, prior to attending "Tuesday Night Comedy" at The Proper Cafe in 1991, my exposure to Black Comedy had been limited to seeing the Richard Pryor film "Live on Sunset Strip" in 1982 and going to the Eddie Murphy "Raw" concert at Madison Square Garden in 1987. Well, I should also include sneaking into my dad's record collection and listening to the raunchy adult comedy of "Wild Man Steve" and Redd Foxx, I'm just saying. I won't even front, and act like my homegirls and I were traveling to Manhattan to "Caroline's on Broadway" because we weren't. Besides we needed our weekly dose of the latest Hip Ho
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